The passport is a valuable document. It is advisable to also keep its photocopy in a safe place; without the relevant details, issue of a duplicate passport may be delayed. If lost, damaged or destroyed, the facts and circumstances should be immediately reported to the nearest Indian Mission and to the local police.
A passport is normally issued valid for maximum 10 years.
Two different application forms are required for passport services, one for a new or a duplicate passport, and the other for miscellaneous services including renewal etc. Both forms can be downloaded from this website.
A new passport application must be submitted along with:
- The old passport along with its photocopy,
- 4 recent passport-size coloured photographs,
- Valid Tanzanian Resident/Work Permit or Dependent Pass, along with its photocopy,
- Fee as applicable, and
- The application form should be properly filled up, leaving no columns blank.
One may apply for a passport with an ordinary booklet or a jumbo booklet.
It is an offence to furnish false information in the application. Passport facilities may be denied on grounds of suppression of factual information, submission of false particulars, willful damage of passport, and for making unauthorized changes in the passports.
The Government of India have introduced machine readable passports (MRP) from 26th August, 2007. Effective from the date, the passports are prepared by printing system located in India. The process for delivery of passports takes up to four weeks from the date when the application is filed. The short validity passport in emergency cases is issued with a validity of six months. Tatkal service is charged if request for passport on emergency basis is made under the tatkal scheme. The short validity passport in cases of emergency will be issued at the request of the applicants. However, applicants are advised to apply for MRP at the earliest. The MRP is not an extension of the earlier passport and is therefore, charged separately.
For a duplicate passport, a detailed report of loss/damage/theft, a copy of the FIR, and an affidavit/undertaking in the prescribed proforma, should be submitted along with the application.
An Emergency Certificate (EC), as a one-way travel document, may be issued in lieu of a passport to authorise an Indian national to enter India if, while abroad, his passport has been lost, stolen, damaged, impounded or revoked, or he has been refused a passport, or he has to be repatriated to India.
Miscellaneous Passport services
Change of First Name / Full Name - The applicant is required to submit (a) a Court Order or notarized affidavit, (b) clipping of a notice in a newspaper in a local daily, and (c) clipping of a notice in a newspaper in the state of applicant’s domicile in India.
Change to Married Name - The applicant is required to apply along with the passport, the marriage certificate and its photocopy, a sworn affidavit giving married and maiden names, husband’s passport, and a photograph of the married couple. If the first name is also to be changed after the marriage, additional requirements as specified for the “Change of full name” are also to be met.
Change of Appearance - A new passport may be issued in lieu of a currently valid passport, for the same validity period, on application on the ground of a change of appearance of the passport-holder.
ECNR (Emigration Check Not Required) Endorsement– may be applied for if the applicant has been staying abroad for the last three years, or is professionally qualified, or, in the case of a minor, has either parent with ECNR endorsement. The application has to be submitted along with an Affidavit in prescribed proforma.
Fees
The currently applicable fee structure is as follows (in TZS):
. Ordinary passport (maximum validity 10 years):
- Ordinary booklet-50,000
- Jumbo booklet(60 pages)-65,000
. Duplicate passport-160,000
. New passport for child up to 15 years, issued valid for 5 years-32,000
. Issue of EC-6000
. Miscellaneous passport services(except ECNR)-25,000
. ECNR endorsement-13,000
The fees are refundable within one year only if the applicant does not submit an application, or the fee paid is in excess, or where no fee is required for a particular service.
A passport may be impounded or revoked by the government, in which event it has to be surrendered to the nearest Indian passport authority.
An Indian passport-holder wishing to acquire citizenship of most other countries is required to send his Indian passport to the nearest Indian Mission for cancellation and return. It is allowed only for a small number of specified countries for Indian nationals to hold two passports. Tanzania does not allow dual citizenship.
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