The government informed the Parliament this week that Aadhaar or PAN card among a host of documents could be used to establish proof of birth.
Birth certificates are no longer mandatory to get a passport. With the rationale of making passports easily available to millions, the government informed the Parliament this week that Aadhaar or PAN card among a host of documents could be used to establish proof of birth.
As per the Passport Rules, 1980, all applicants born on or after 26/01/1989 had to submit a birth certificate, which was a mandatory provision during the application process.
With the change in rules, they can now submit any one of the following documents in place of their birth certificate —
1. Transfer, Matriculation or School Leaving Certificate issued by the school last attended/recognised educational board containing the DOB of the applicant
2. PAN Card
3. Aadhaar Card/E-Aadhaar
4. Driving license
5. Voter ID cards
6. LIC policy bonds
Government servants are allowed to give extracts of service record, pension records, etc.
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For those who aren’t aware of early amendments, here’s all you need to know.
All of these rules have been in operation since December 2016, reported TOI.
- Neither divorce decrees, nor adoption certificates need to be produced to get a passport.
- In case of orphaned children, they only need a document from their orphanage to confirm date of birth.
- The new passports will have personal details printed in both Hindi and English.
- Applicants over 60 years of age and below 8 years, will get a 10 per cent discount on passport fees.
- Online applicants can provide the name of only one parent or guardian, than both, helping single-parent families.
- The annexes to the passport form have been reduced from 15 to 9, and they only need to be printed out in plain paper, and can be self-attested. “No attestation/swearing by/before any Notary/Executive Magistrate/First Class Judicial Magistrate would be henceforth necessary.”
- This also means married applicants don’t need to provide a marriage certificate, or the name of their spouse if they are divorced or separated.
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