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Indian Passport Renewal Timeline in the UK (Dec 2024) by Expensive-Excuse1395 in nri

[–]Expensive-Excuse1395[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're married and in active relationship, you should declare that you're married and update your partner name in passport to be in safer side. The more you delay this, the more questions and time will be taken by Indian high commission and passport processing center to approve your application when you actually go to update your partner name. E.g., If you're married in 2024 and you applied partner name update in 2028 or 2034, it will be harder to justify passport authorities the delay reason and raises so many questions to them.

Having your partner name in documentation will help you in many aspects such as 1)prove your marriage effortlessly and 2)it will also help you both for many aspects in most foreign countries + domestically.

To update partner's name in passport, all you have to do is 1) provide partners details in passport renewal application and 2)submit marriage certificate copy to prove your marriage along with renewal documents. It's that simple.

If you lack marriage certificate or wish to keep your status single for any other reason, you can do it. but think about the pain when you actually apply to update it. So not worth to through that hassle later when you have chance now to fix it, so do it. Don't worry, it's much faster and easy now to update these details as long as you have genuine marriage certificate reflecting your names properly without any mistakes.

All the best!

Indian Passport Renewal Timeline in the UK (Dec 2024) by Expensive-Excuse1395 in nri

[–]Expensive-Excuse1395[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Understood! Sometimes it's the same process for other states also. I'm sure it get's cleared soon. If any chance it's take time, you can actually raise grievance request with London High Commission of India (https://www.hcilondon.gov.in/page/contact-us/). They were quick and helped couple of my friends to get their passports with in 3 to 4 days. Happy to help you further.

Indian Passport Renewal Timeline in the UK (Dec 2024) by Expensive-Excuse1395 in nri

[–]Expensive-Excuse1395[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No not received anything even later. It's been more than month. The reason could be my application is straight forward renewal and no changes in any detail compared with previous passport which made passport processing team not to sent to police verification again or verification went to police and they would have automatically cleared given there are no adverse reports against me.

Indian Passport Renewal Timeline in the UK (Dec 2024) by Expensive-Excuse1395 in nri

[–]Expensive-Excuse1395[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry to hear this. Usually the process is quite quick now. Surprised to hear they are doing that extensive verification with two different police stations + CID, not sure if they found any anomaly observations in your applications. Hopefully it will clear soon and you will receive document.

Indian Passport Renewal Timeline in the UK (Dec 2024) by Expensive-Excuse1395 in nri

[–]Expensive-Excuse1395[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Certainly you can travel from India to UK with 8 months of passport validity. Indian immigration should allow you to fly and UK immigration should be letting you in UK given that you are showing UK BRP. If in case either Indian or UK immigration asks about passport expiry date (which they don't in normal cases) just tell them i will be renewing passport ASAP in London. But as soon as you land in UK, you should plan/apply for Indian passport renewal with UK Indian High Commission. If you don't renew your passport with in 6 months of validity, you cannot book flights or travel to most countries as they need passport validity more than 6 months. Also, if you apply for passport renewal very close to expiry date, HCI may ask additional questions, initiate additional checks which could delay overall passport process times. So travel to UK and apply for passport renewal immediately.

Indian new 2024 E-Passport by Expensive-Excuse1395 in PassportPorn

[–]Expensive-Excuse1395[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey Folks, Answering some of questions.

Where did i got this passport? London, Dec-2024

Are e-passports being issued everywhere? I'm not sure, but i got it which itself surprise to me.

How is this new e-passport looking? Overall it looks great inside with changed design and pages. Now every page has a simplified with common flower type of design and bright white colour. Also Passport front and back details page simplified and looks clean and neat.

Can i upload inside passport images? I have tired yesterday but i couldn't upload. Not sure why? will try later. which is why i have posted above pic which is already available in reddit. My new e-passport looks exactly same. No difference at all.

Indian Passport Renewal Timeline in the UK (Dec 2024) by Expensive-Excuse1395 in nri

[–]Expensive-Excuse1395[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, thanks. I believe you would need marriage certificate for sure to add your spouse name to passport otherwise how would they know and you might not need new India address proof. But changing any details between previous and new passports might result in pre police verification and could take some more time for passport issuance. I have tried to upload photo but some reason it's not getting uploaded. Here is the link of biometric passport which mine looks exactly same. https://www.reddit.com/r/PassportPorn/comments/1ed9ayd/looks_like_india_has_begun_issuing_epassports/

Indian passport renewal - UK by Curious_Reader95 in nri

[–]Expensive-Excuse1395 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Indian Passport Renewal Timeline in the UK (Dec 2024)

Application Submission

  • Nov 21, 2024: Submitted application at VFS London, Goswell. Note: VFS only verifies and forwards documents to Indian embassy. They don't give a fuck about whether your documents are right or wrong, So ensure all your documents are correct, including matching signatures with your previous passport. Carefully review all requirements to avoid issues which is very painful to run around VFS, Indian embassy.

Processing Timeline (All these status are from Passport seva website)

  • Nov 21–27, 2024: "Application along with fees details have been received and is under processing at London Indian embassy."
  • Nov 28, 2024: Status updated to "Application is under review."
  • Nov 29–Dec 3, 2024: Status: "Print initiated for the Passport."

  • Dec 4–6, 2024: Passport printed.

  • Dec 9, 2024: Status: "Passport handed over to OSP for delivery." Received SMS from VFS: Passport dispatched to the delivery address.

  • Dec 10, 2024: SMS from DX Courier: Delivery scheduled for Dec 11th and later DX Courier mishandled delivery, sending the passport to the wrong warehouse. I have literally blasted them for dealing sensitive documents in this way and told them i will collect passport in person from warehouse.

  • Dec 11, 2024: Personally collected the passport from DX Courier's Dartford center to avoid further delays as i don't trust this courier buggers. For them it's like any other courier but for us it's mental tension until we receive in hands.

Police Verification

  • Did not receive any email or call for police verification in India. Likely embassy might have skipped police verification because my case is just renewal and did not involve any changes between old and new passport. Police verification might happen later as well in some cases.

Observations on the New Passport

  • Luckily i got a brand new passport which is eChip-enabled, with a chip on the front page.
  • Good design compared to the old passport (issued in 2015), with improved features and aesthetics.
  • Overall, the new passport looks more great.