Passport call center/ Passport customer care

Passport call center or customer care is a place where you can seek your queries or doubts and track your passport application.

You can ask your questions regarding your passport application in the below methods:

  1. By visiting the website passportindia.gov.in
  2. By calling Customer care center at 1800-258-1800
  3. By enquiring at the Helpdesk at your nearest Passport Seva Kendra

You can check your passport application status by calling Customer care center at 1800-258-1800.  You can punch your file number over the phone into the IVR system or talk to an executive to check your status. You have to provide you File Number and Date of Birth to the executive when checking your passport application status.

In the case of loss of passport, you have to file a complaint to the nearest Police Station and inform to the Passport Office or Indian Mission, if staying in abroad and not through Call Center.

In the case of Show cause notice in your passport, you should not reply through a call center. The applicant has to reply in written or typed and send to the concerned authority by post or personally meet the officer.

National Call Centre Timings

Customer Care Executive: 8 AM to 10 PM

Automated Interactive Voice Response

(IVRS) Support: 24 hours

PSK Working Hours

Working Days: Monday to Friday

Working Hours: 09.30 AM to 04.30PM

Token Issuance: 09.30 AM to 04.00PM

Lunch Hours: 01.30 PM to 02.00 PM

The following list provides details such as telephone numbers and email addresses of the important Regional Passport Offices (RPOs) in India.

Amritsar    0183-2502104; 0183-2502108    rpo.amritsar@mea.gov.in

Bangalore    080-25706100/6101/6102/25781506; 080-25706124    rpo.bangalore@mea.gov.in

Bareilly    0581-2546041; 0581-2543250    rpo.bareilly@mea.gov.in

Bhopal    0755-2774278; 0755-2774276    rpo.bhopal@mea.gov.in

Bhubaneshwar    0674-2533831/2393991; 0674-2394005    rpo.bbwr@mea.gov.in

Chandigarh    0172-2606889; 0172-2601863    rpo.chandigarh@mea.gov.in

Chennai    044-28203592/593/594; 044-28252767    rpo.chennai@mea.gov.in

Dehradun    0135-2652165/2652162; 0135-2652161    rpo.dehradun@mea.gov.in

New Delhi    011-26166292; 011-26165870    rpo.delhi@mea.gov.in

Ghaziabad    95120-2721779/2721876; 95120-2782770    rpo.ghaziabad@mea.gov.in

Guwahati    0361-2260101/2264841; 0361-2260101    rpo.guwahati@mea.gov.in

Hyderabad    040-27715333/27716149; 040-27705656    rpo.hyderabad@mea.gov.in

Jaipur    0141-2702515/2710884/2221250; 0141-2710216    rpo.jaipur@mea.gov.in

Jalandhar    0181-2223278/2223274/2452601/2225991; 0181-2236567    rpo.jalandhar@mea.gov.in

Jammu    0191-2433359/2451085/2223278; 0191-2435279    rpo.jammu@mea.gov.in

Kochi    0484-2314041/2315152; 0484-2310915    rpo.cochin@mea.gov.in

Kolkata    033-22254893/22254084; 033-22254762    rpo.kolkata@mea.gov.in

Kozhikode    0495-2768869/2769139; 0495-2765470    rpo.kozhikode@mea.gov.in

Lucknow    0522-2287125/2287126; 0522-2287129    rpo.lucknow@mea.gov.in

Malappuram    0483-2739701/2739702; 0483-2739705    rpo.malappuram@mea.gov.in

Mumbai    022-24932699/24931731/249355; 022-24935275    rpo.mumbai@mea.gov.in

Nagpur    0712-2510646; 0712-2511740    rpo.nagpur@mea.gov.in

Panaji    0832-2437601/2437602; 0832-2437603    rpo.goa@mea.gov.in

Patna    0612-2223267/2227943; 0612-2227972    rpo.patna@mea.gov.in

Pune    020-25675421/22/25679962/25675419; 020-25679961    rpo.pune@mea.gov.in

Raipur    0771-2263921/2263922; 0771-2263923    rpo.raipur@mea.gov.in

Ranchi    0651-2443608; 0651-2442840    rpo.ranchi@mea.gov.in

Shimla    0177-2808942/2658648/2652395; 0177-2658648    rpo.shimla@mea.gov.in

Srinagar    0194-2452405/2451193; 0194-2451224     rpo.srinagar@mea.gov.in

Surat    0261-23318630261-2331861-862;     rpo.surat@mea.gov.in

Thane    022-25829434 3022-25837803;     rpo.thane@mea.gov.in

Trichirapalli    0431-07203/04; 0431-2707515    rpo.trichy@mea.gov.in

Trivandrum    0471-2460132; 0471-2461132    rpo.trivandrum@mea.gov.in

Vishakapatnam    0891-2745746/2745747; 0891-27457448    rpo.vizag@mea.gov.in