Police Verification for Passport

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January 16, 2025 at 5:37 pm

I recently received a call from my nearest police station for verification. They asked me to bring my passport-sized photograph and a copy of my Aadhar card to verify my address. But, the address on my Aadhar card is different from the one I provided while applying for the passport. For the address proof in my passport application, I used my bank passbook since I currently live at that address and did not use my Aadhar card as proof anywhere in the application.

The police officials, however, are insisting that only the address on the Aadhar card will be accepted for police verification, not any other document. I tried to explain and insisted they accept the bank passbook as a valid proof of address, but they refused.

I have applied online for an address change in my Aadhar card, but the update will take a few days. The police are now saying that they will cancel my verification, and I will have to visit the passport office again to reschedule another verification.

My question is: Are the police officials correct, or is a bank passbook also considered valid proof of address for police verification?

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[Swiftlion6148]

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January 16, 2025 at 5:50 pm

Yea whatever address you have on your aadhar is your home address and you need to keep updating it if you’re moving for jobs or shifting,OP you have to redo the entire process again just remember aadhar is the basic and the most accepted form of proof of identity.

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[Swiftlion6148]

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January 16, 2025 at 5:51 pm

If you need it urgently then wait till then cancel your request for police verification and apply for a tatkal passport you’ll get it in 2 days (my dad did)

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[User_9344b924]

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January 16, 2025 at 7:02 pm

Looks like these cops are just looking for a bribe.

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[User_839e01f3]

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January 16, 2025 at 8:52 pm

No bro it’s not always like that. Aadhar is the primary proof of identification and if you are from an area A and having aadhar with address B nothing’s gonna help you there.

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[User_9344b924]

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January 17, 2025 at 4:11 pm

>if you are from an area A and having aadhar with address B nothing’s gonna help you there.

The passport office has accepted whatever address proof OP has, else the application would never have come for police verification.

All the cops need to do for verification is make sure that OP is residing at the location given in the address proof. Aadhaar address is irrelevant.

In fact, aadhaar is just one of the “acceptable documents”, not a necessary document.

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[Prakashtiger378]

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January 16, 2025 at 11:21 pm

If you are not on rent you can try to use Electricity bill?

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[Brightsanay2553]

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January 16, 2025 at 11:35 pm

If they cancel verification there is no other go👍 restart ghe process👍

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[Shankarhero445]

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January 17, 2025 at 1:11 am

You can provide rental agreement as proof, as I did for my passport couple of weeks back.

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[User_90aa8ea7]

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January 17, 2025 at 2:09 am

This is why i first spent more than a month waiting to get my updated aadhar and then applied for passport, so as to get my new address on it.

It totally depends on the officer. If he is willing to pass your verification he will. You may seek gandhiji’s help

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[Indianwolf4714]

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January 17, 2025 at 4:17 am

For address verification, they should actually come to the place and verify. Atleast, that’s how they do in my area

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