Passport Seva Online Services: If anyone has to go on a foreign trip, then a passport is required for that. Without a passport, you cannot go on a foreign trip. That is why when people plan a foreign tour, then they apply for a passport beforehand. So that they have a passport before the trip. So that there is no problem in going on the trip.
But for the last two-three days, people were not able to avail the benefits of passport services in India. Due to which people faced a lot of problems. Today, on 3rd September, passport service in India was trending a lot on Google. Passport service was searched more than 20000 times in just 4 hours in the morning. What is the current update regarding the online service of passport. Let us tell you.
Online services of passport started
The Ministry of External Affairs had issued a notification informing that the passport service portal will be closed from 8 pm on August 29 to 6 am on September 2 due to maintenance. Due to this, the work of many passport applicants was stuck. That is why as soon as the online services of passport service were restored, people started searching for passport service on Google. And due to this, passport service started trending on Google very soon.
Let us tell you that now the online facilities have started as before. People can avail all the facilities online by visiting the passport service portal as before. That is, when the passport service portal was closed for maintenance, you had an appointment during that time. So now you can reschedule it. Along with this, you can also apply for a new passport.
The portal was started on 1 September itself
According to the information received from the Ministry of External Affairs, the passport service portal was to be closed from 29 August to 2 September. But due to the early completion of the maintenance work, the portal was opened on 1 September at 7:00 pm. Apart from this, the Ministry of External Affairs has also informed that the date and time of the new appointment will be issued again to all those applicants who had an appointment during this period.