Is Police Verification happens if you are not changing your address in Indian Passport?

India Passport Renewal
#1

Hi,

I have recently applied for renewal of Indian Passport in US through CKGS. I live in US on H1B. I haven’t opted for change in the address, i.e. Indian permanent address. Recently, I got a mail from Indian Embassy that there will be some police verification happening on the indian address?

Is this always done even if you don’t change your address? As I am not currently living at that address but my parents are there, will that be okay?

Any experiences. Please share?

#2

It won’t happen all the time… it’d depend on the status of last police verification. It happened for my daughter who is 7 years old and I almost panicked cuz I had to get h1 extended too.

Finally the police verification happened in parallel while I received the passport. Cop called me on my US number from WhatsApp. Was pretty smooth.

#3

Thanks so much for your reply. So, for your case, did the police also came to your Indian permanent address or they just called you on Whatsapp and that’s it.

#4

They came at my permanent address next day after calling me.

Verified the address proof and the job was done.

#5

Thanks so much Wali for your reply.