Now, the people of Agra do not have to wait 90 days to get a new passport or to renew their passport. Instead of 40, 80 applicants are given online appointments in a day at the main post office passport service centre. After just 15 days, the applicants' certificates will be verified at the passport centre.

New Passport: Now, the residents of Agra will not have to wait 90 days to get a new passport or to renew their passport. Instead of 40, 80 applicants are being given online appointments in a day at the main post office passport service centre. If the applicants apply online today, they will get an appointment on January 22 for certificate verification. After just 15 days, the applicant’s certificates will be verified at the passport centre.

Let us tell you that in February 2018, Passport Seva Kendra (POPSK) was started in the main post office located at Bijlighar. For the convenience of the applicants, a second passport service centre was operated in Achhnera. But, the waiting graph did not come down. 40-40 applicants were being called for certificate verification every day at both centres. Even after this, there was a waiting of 90 days at the Agra centre. In Achhnera, people were getting online appointments after 40 days. The situation became such that out of the 11 POPSKs of the Regional Passport Office Ghaziabad, Agra emerged as the centre with the highest number of applications. Keeping this in mind, now the number of slots available daily in Agra has been increased.

Convenience to 120 applicants At present, 120 passport applicants are getting the facility in a day in Agra. While 80 passport applicants are getting benefits at the Agra centre, 40 applicants are getting benefits from the Achhnera centre. At Achhnera, the applicants are getting an appointment for February 11. Applicants who have made an appointment earlier can book these slots by rescheduling the appointment.

Certificates are verified

After applying online for a new passport or renewal, the applicant is called to the office for certificate verification. After certificate verification, they are scanned and uploaded to the portal. After this, the process of police verification begins. After the police report is received, the passport is printed from Ghaziabad and sent to the applicant’s home through post. Earlier, applicants had to go to Ghaziabad for this work.