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