{"id":964258,"date":"2025-09-25T10:07:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T04:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=964258"},"modified":"2025-09-25T11:05:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T05:35:44","slug":"passport-seva-2-0-heres-how-to-apply-for-e-passport-in-india-check-eligibility-key-benefits-application-fee-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/25\/passport-seva-2-0-heres-how-to-apply-for-e-passport-in-india-check-eligibility-key-benefits-application-fee-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Passport Seva 2.0: Here\u2019s how to apply for e-Passport in India, check eligibility, key benefits, application fee and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India has started offering e-Passports, a new type of passport that people can now apply for across the country. These were first introduced on April 1, 2024, through a pilot program by the Ministry of External Affairs. Right now, only a few passport offices can issue them, but more centres will be added soon. e-Passports look similar to regular ones but have a small gold-colored emblem below the title on the front cover. This mark helps tell them apart. The new passports aim to improve security and speed up immigration checks at airports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has started offering e-Passports, a new type of passport that people can now apply for across the country. These were first introduced on April 1, 2024, through a pilot program by the Ministry of External Affairs. Right now, only a few passport offices can issue them, but more centres will be added soon. e-Passports look similar to regular ones but have a small gold-colored emblem below the title on the front cover. This mark helps tell them apart. The new passports aim to improve security and speed up immigration checks at airports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}