| Packed your bags for a long holiday abroad? | | | | identification, birth certificate, |
| Ready to leave? Before you sign off, it would | | | | citizenship proof and passport-size photos. |
| be wise to check if your passport has | | | | Apart from this, the payment is also to be |
| expired. If so, don't get tense. Just | | | | included with the forms submitted. Sometimes |
| consider yourself lucky that the procedure of | | | | certain modifications or amendments have to |
| passport renewal has improved over the years | | | | be made in printed passports, for which |
| and will not take much time.Passport renewal | | | | submitting a passport renewing application is |
| is a service offered by the government of a | | | | required.Normally, the process of passport |
| country for its citizens who need to travel | | | | renewal does not take too long, 6 weeks on |
| internationally and are not the first-time | | | | average. But in cases of emergency, the |
| applicants of a passport. Passport renewal is | | | | process can be sped up, reducing the time |
| basically the procedure of renewing or | | | | taken to one day.Owing to security issues the |
| re-issuing a passport in case it has been | | | | method of passport renewal has been made more |
| lost, stolen or damaged. A passport is also | | | | rigid and complex. This has been done by |
| renewed if the name of the applicant has | | | | including digital photographs, biometric |
| changed and his current passport bears his | | | | technology, and the most recent, e-passport. |
| old name.The steps involved in the process of | | | | However, passport renewal is not an expensive |
| renewal include submitting a passport renewal | | | | service, and provides us with a gateway to |
| application form and important documents like | | | | the world outside our national borders. |