High Commission of India, Ottawa, Canada

Passport Services

Please note that we have outsourced our Passport Services to our outsourcing agents, BLS International. You are required to contact them directly for depositing your forms and fees. All your queries may also be directed to their staff. Their office addresses, timings, phone numbers and e-mail address can be found by clicking here In addition to the fee mentioned on this page, you will be required to pay processing fee to BLS International separately. Please consult them about the total cost and the exact procedure for remitting the fee.

GENERAL

Your Indian Passport is a valuable document. It should always be either in your own custody or in the custody of a person duly authorized by you. If lost or destroyed, the fact and circumstances should be immediately reported to the nearest Mission and to the local police.

We suggest that you keep photocopy of your Indian Passport in a safe place, separate from the passport. The photocopy should include the pages showing the personal particulars, validity of the passport, date/place of issue as also the stamp of departure from India, entry in Canada and visa issued by the Canadian authorities. Best would be that you take a computer scan of the Passport and e-mail the scanned copy to yourself. This way it will be available to you at all times and at all places.

Your Indian Passport establishes your identity in a foreign country. Hence it is IMPORTANT to have it re-issued before the date of expiry. The passport can be submitted for re-issue up to one year before the date of expiry.

All minors are required to have a separate passport. Old practice of including a child's name in the Passport of either of the parents has been discontinued.

On acquiring Canadian nationality, the Indian passport should be submitted to the nearest Indian High Commission/Consulate for cancellation. It is returned to the holder after cancellation. Use of Indian Passport for travel to India after acquiring any foreign nationality is an offence and invites penalty. After acquiring Canadian citizenship, you do not remain an Indian citizen and need Indian visa to visit India.

It is an offence under the Passport Act, 1967 to knowingly furnish false information or suppress material information. Passport facilities can be denied on grounds of suppression of factual information, submission of false particulars, willful damage, tampering of official documents or entries or transferring of passport.

A new Passport can be issued one year before final expiry or on final expiry of any Passport issued for full validity of 10 years(5 years in the case of minors).

Passport Service to Refugees

As a general rule, Passport Services (and many other services such as OCI card) are restricted to refugees or asylum seekers and each case is dealt on its merit. 

PROCESSING TIME

Issue of a Passport requires 3 to 4 weeks of processing time. All new passports have to be Machine Readable Passports (MRPs) as distinguished from hand written Passports which were being issued in the past. The MRPs are printed at the central printing facility in New Delhi on first-come-first-serve basis; and thereafter received at this High Commission in Ottawa by post for onward dispatch to the applicants. Therefore, it is not possible for us to reduce the processing time. We request the applicants to be patient after submitting their application. We would not be able to respond to requests to expedite issue of Passport as we attend to applicants on first-come-first-serve basis.

The processing time indicated above is for a normal case. Following are some of the situations when processing can take longer time:

--Documents enclosed with the application are incomplete.

--The application form is incomplete or illegible.

--The photographs are not proper/clear.

--Existing Passport is a handwritten passport requiring physical verification of old records from the office of the Passport Issuing Authority.

--Lost and damaged Passport cases.

There is no provision for Emergency/Tatkal Processing of Passport in the High Commission.

FEE SCHEDULE

Fee once paid is not refundable. In addition to the fee mentioned below, you will be required to pay processing fee to our outsourcing agents, BLS International. Their office addresses, timings, phone numbers and e-mail address can be clicking here Please consult them about the total cost and the exact procedure for applying and for remitting the fee.

The Passport fee has been revised w.e.f. 01.04.2021  as under :

The following will be the Passport fee rate with immediate effect: