Sep 01, 2014 11:49 PM
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I submitted passport application 3rd April and book an appointment on 5th May 2014. I was in opinion that Voter id card is address proof and X marks list is DOB proof. I check my voter ID Card is not 1 year old. So I have to look for another address proof.
As I am working in MNC, I took address proof and company letter head. I went to passport seva kendra on time. but there is large pool of applicants with same appointment time. I thought of just 15 minutes time. but it is very very long procedure. I showed up my documents at initial verification and they asked me company ID card and voter card too.
Later every thing is very smooth and defined process. I really liked it. By end of day I got ACK and came out. Next day itself I got SMS that they have sent file for police verification. Police Verification took long time. It took 3 weeks to send report by 21st May. I thought I will get passport by next week. but there is no update for 3 weeks. I started googling and found that there is shortage of passport booklets hence the delay. I regularly see number of passports issued in psk website. It is constantly 73K and suddenly it started flow 1.5L passports issued by July 1st. I googled again and saw book lets flow started and mentioned that it will take Aug last week to clear all backlog passports.
Then I stopped looking at site and started again Aug last week, The status changed from printing initiated to printed and in same week I got passport. If I look at PSK performance, it is awesome. The delay is actually out of their hands so I am happy with their service.
