If anyone has to go on a foreign trip. Then a passport is required for that. You cannot go on a foreign trip without a passport. That is why when people plan a tour to go abroad. Then they apply for a passport in advance. So that they get a passport before the trip. So that there is no problem in going on a trip.

But for the last two or three days, people have not been able to take advantage of passport services in India. Due to this people also faced a lot of problems. Today i.e. on September 3, passport service in India was trending a lot on Google. Passport service was searched more than 20000 times in just 4 hours of the morning. What is the current update regarding the online service of passports? Let us tell you.

Passport online services have started
The Ministry of External Affairs issued a notification informing that the portal of passport service 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. So people started searching for passport services on Google. Due to this, the passport service started trending on Google.

Let us tell you that now online facilities have started as before. People can avail of all the facilities online by visiting the passport service portal as before. That is when the passport service portal was closed for maintenance. In the meantime, you had an appointment. So now you can reschedule it. Along with this, you can also apply for a new passport.

The portal was started on September 1 itself

According to the information received from the Ministry of External Affairs, earlier the portal of passport service was to be closed from 29 August to 2 September. However, due to the maintenance work being completed early, the portal was started on September 1 at 7:00 pm. Apart from this, the Ministry of External Affairs has also given information that all the applicants who had an appointment during this period. A new appointment date and time will be issued again to all those applicants.

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