Passport show cause notice / impound notice

You got your pass port  on 18/11/2010 (After Original Passport stolen) and returned to US on 01/12/2010 and finally you came to India on 17/01/2013. In the meantime, what happends  in India, you dont know.Show cause notice date is 09/10/2013. The reason as mentioned in the police report is" Could not meet the Applicant at the  mentioned address" .It is true and correct. 

Explanation for yours: You have a genuine explanation. When you have applied  in Tatkal, the Passport authority issued a fresh pass port, without following proper procedure. It is their duty to obtain necessary police report, before issuing a fresh passport. Here you have not committed any mistake. The mistake has done by the passport issuing authority. (2) Obviously when you are not available in India in between 01/12/2010 and 17/01/2013, there is every chance to made an endorsement by the police mentioning the above reason. 

So it is better to prepare a suitable explanation and submit the same to the Passport authority. Nothing will be done against you in this regard. 

Thank you for the response.

So am I safe even to travel to India in Dec-2013 for one month?

In case if they finally decide to impound my passport then will they send another letter/notice to me?

Kumar,

The penalty u/s 12(1)(b) for the offence attracting the provisions of this section is Rs. 5,000/- however an offence u/s 10(3)(b) will attract impounding of passport due to suppression of fact.  Nothing to worry.  Write a detailed letter explaining the circumstances which made you not to be available in the residential address given in the application and that your absence from country during the policy enquiry was unavoidable owing to your employment requirements.  In addition you can attach the attested photo copies of the immigration stamping in the passport and your employment details to prove that absence was genuine.  You can also endorse a copy of your explanation letter to the higher official of the RPO for an information in advance.  

My wife applied (Resident individual - normal application) for a reissue of passport for "Address change" in June-2012. We submitted all necessary document to the passport authority & in next 8-10 days we received our new passport with a changed number.

We used this passport till date for her trips abroad.

However, she received a "Show Cause Notice" from Mumbai - Worli passport ofice on 2nd april 2014 stating that the passport authority has received a "Adverse" police verification report.

Reason:- Applicant has NOT ATTENDED for verification at local police verification.

Letter further asks for explaination & show cause why action should not be taken under section 10(3)(b) & section 12(1)(b) of passport act 1967.

My wife is already following up with passport authority. However, i have a question.

She is supposed to travel out of india in a fortnight. (Holiday for 10 days).

If by any chance the issue does not get solved by then, can she travel without any haste?? OR will she have any problem in immegration??

 

Request urgent answer

Mandar

 

Mandar,

My experience has been post sending my reply of show-cause-notice, it takes time for passport office to respond or act.

If you have received SCN on 02-Apr-2014, it may take a while for them to act further. But each case is specific so no one can gaurantee till what time they will wait.

Since your wife is following up, parallely prepare a suitable response and send it to passport office.

Hope this helps.

Thanks Mr. Kumar, however the immediate question before me at the moment is, "can she travel abroad even if her passport is flagged with a SCN"? problem is that if she does not travel before Matt start, then her residence visa will get cancelled as then she will be out of UAE for more than 6 months.

Thanks Mr. Kumar, however the immediate question before me at the moment is, "can she travel abroad even if her passport is flagged with a SCN"? problem is that if she does not travel before Matt start, then her residence visa will get cancelled as then she will be out of UAE for more than 6 months.

Thanks Mr. Kumar, however the immediate question before me at the moment is, "can she travel abroad even if her passport is flagged with a SCN"? problem is that if she does not travel before Matt start, then her residence visa will get cancelled as then she will be out of UAE for more than 6 months.

Thanks Mr. Kumar, however the immediate question before me at the moment is, "can she travel abroad even if her passport is flagged with a SCN"? problem is that if she does not travel before Matt start, then her residence visa will get cancelled as then she will be out of UAE for more than 6 months.

Hi V Kumar,

 

I received similar SCN and visited the RPO where the official told me that SCN doesn't have any impact on VISA / clearing immigration.

 

However, it would be great if you could share your experience - all went smooth while travelling with your SCN marked Passport ?

Hi Sir/Madam

   I have applied for a passport  stating that present and permanent address as both my residence address which is native place. I am working for a company which is in Bangalore and I am from Andhra Pradesh. Though I am working for Bangalore company, I have permission to work from home from last one year. I used to travel to bangalore for once in 20 days and I stay for 1 week in bangalore. During this one week I stay in Company dormitories. This is why I mentioned both present and permanent address as my native address. Now when I tried to explain this police when I went for verification he sent report saying that my present address as Bangalore. Now If RPO send a SCN to me, Can I change my present address to Bangalore office address so that I can go for verification in Bangalore again ? or Should I close that application ? Is it possible to get passport If I submit one PP at RPO after I get SCN from RPO ?

 

   Please help me on this.  Thanks in advance

Dear Sir/Madam,

I applied for reissue of my passport to update my recent photo last year. I got my new passport on Oct 2013. Now today I received a show cause notic based on adverse  police verification report saying " you are therefore , called upon to provide a suitable explanation and submit a fresh application with correct details .Please note that you are required to furnish a proper ecplanation regarding the circumstances under which you had supressed the material information in your passport appliation"

could you please advise what the material information they are talking about. I am also supposed to apply for UK VISA because of my official assignment. What should I  do in that case. Please provide some helpful advise.

 

Regards

 

Samit

Sir/Madam,

                      I hold a passport which I applied under Tatkal scheme. During post police verification the generated one adverse report and RPO sent me a scn after 1 and half year of issuance of passport. I contacted to RPO gave an application with justification whatever they needed and proved that the report produced by police does not capture correct information. The RPO accept my proofs and application and told me the reverted back the report to police and asked them to reproduce another report with correct facts. Now I'm planning to apply for US/Canada VISA, does my current status of passport effect my VISA application. Please get back with proper information as soon as possible.

 

Thanks and regards

Rajat

Hello, I have received a show cause notice from passport office today, i realize the reason for it is my present address mentioned in passport application is same as my permanent address. and during police verification i was not staying at my present address. Can anyone guide me how to handle this. I have no intention of giving wrong information in my passport application, the reason i gave my present and permanent address same was, i didn't had any address proof to submit for present address, i was staying in a hostel.