New Delhi: Acknowledging a changing social milieu and its reflection in paperwork, the ministry of external affairs on Friday unveiled a series of changes in the passport application process.
The online passport application form now requires the applicant to provide the name of only one parent as opposed to both in order to enable those with single parents to apply for passports.
This comes on the heel of reports over the past two years of passport offices insisting on the father’s name in the form even if the mother is a single parent.
