Renewal of passport or new passport
Application for a new passport has to be made when the applicant's old passport has completed 10 years (Final or F). The Application for a new passport can be made within 12 months before the expiry of the passport.
This is different from the Extension of Validity of a passport (where validity of the passport is either 6 months or one year). This service can be rendered on passports only up to a total of ten years (the prescribed life of an Indian passport booklet), after which the validity cannot be extended. Thereafter, a new booklet needs to be issued and applied for.
There is no provision for issue of an Additional booklet. In case pages of a passport are exhausted, application for issue of a new passport may be submitted.
Other requirements are:
- Original passport;
- Four passport size photographs (size 3.5 cm X 3.5 cm with light background showing frontal view of full face);
- Prescribed fee of Euro 48 for normal booklet (36 pages) or Euro 60 for Jumbo booklet (60 pages). Fee has to be paid in cash only at the counter payable to the Embassy of India, Brussels. Please note that the Embassy does not accept any personal cheques. Kindly note that money once paid is not refunded on refusal of service or delay in service. Please insist on a receipt for any money paid at the counter and present the receipt for collection of documents between 04:45 - 05:15 p.m on appointed day.
The application form must be signed by the applicant and completed in all respects. Please ensure that the applicant's signature or thumb impression is provided in the box at the end of the application form. This is required for insertion in the passport.
The old passport is returned after cancellation. Valid visas in the old passport are not canceled and can be used after cancellation of the passport.
Note: While the requirements mentioned above are complete in all respects, the Embassy has the right to ask for any of the original documents, at any stage, and these documents should be presented for scrutiny and satisfaction of the Consular Officer.
For Extension of Validity of passport, application form for Extension of Validity must be completed. Form is also available in the section "All Forms".