Getting passport in India has become a laborious task given the bureaucratic nature of the system. The passport process has been made online in most of the cities and towns. Still there are complaints from applicants on the delay in procedure. Regularly checking the status of your passport application will help you tracking the process. The website link for checking passport status is http://passportstatus.nic.in/passmain.php .
You can now check passport application status for the following cities: Amritsar, Bareillly, Bhopal, Cochin, Chandigarh, Bhubaneswar, Dehradun, Coimbatore, Delhi, Ghaziabad, Guwahati, Goa, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jalandhra, Jammu, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Lucknow, Madurai, Malappuram, Nagpur, Mumbai, Patna, Ranchi, Pune, Raipur, Surat, Srinagar, Shimla, Thane, Trivandrum and Visakhapatnam.
You have to enter following details in order to know the status: City, File Reference No, Year, Date of Birth and then Enter. Application status at various passport offices can be availed from the website. The site is functioning under the aegis of Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India.
I submitted my passport application at Delhi mela on 1st july2012,My file no. is DL01W0004177512.Pl inform status.
submitted aplication for re issue of passport at hamilton house delhi on 1st july 2 012, police verification done on 15th july. Passport not recd. File no.DLO1W0004177512. Pl let me know status.
regret passport not yet recd.my Dob is 03 jan 1945 &my passport file no.isDLO1W0004177612,my passport appn recpt sl no. is 3051 dtd 1st july 12,.The application for reissue was submitted in passport mela on 1st july12 at passport office at hamilton house delhi.police verification was done on 15th julyy.Regret ,passport not yet recd. Also internet status check indicate file no. as wrong.Can any body help me by checking status & expedite ?