Passport
Non-issue of passport

I had applied for my passport through regional passport office gaziabad on 31st march till date I have not recived the passport, just because I dint oil the palms of the people designated to come for address verification.

I want to know that when I have paid the required fee of Rs 1000/- in the passport office alongwith the required documents and also fulfilled all the neccessary conditions for the same, why am I required to pay any additional fees to the passport and police personnel coming for address verificaion?

Is it that they are not paid by the government to do their jobs? Or they are living in miserable conditions that to earn their bread butter they are solely dependent on their black income?

If the fees which they claim we have to pay, really has to be paid then why is is not mentioned on the passport form or any of the passport websites? How correct are they and our rules and regulations that on paying a fees of merely 200 - 300 bucks they are can show the residents status as "staying in the house for last 5 yrs", even if the resident is staying in that house only for 6 mths or less than a year.

Contray to this, if the applicant is not paying them the "extra fees", even if he is staying in a particular location for 1 year or more, his status is shown as negative.

And all these things are happeing under the nose of our dear government. When the whole system is corrupted where will the common man go for his grieveince redressal?

I want to know that who is the right person to complain to in this regard?

regards

shanti dahal

Company: Passport
Country: India

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