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Types of passport. Left to right: ordinary (navy blue), official (white), and diplomatic (maroon) passports of India. Ordinary Passport (Navy Blue) is issued to ordinary citizens for private travel, such as for vacation, study and business trips (36 or 60 pages). It is a "Type P" passport, where P stands for Personal.
Diplomatic immunity is a principle of international law by which certain foreign government officials are recognized as having legal immunity from the jurisdiction of another country. [1] [2] It allows diplomats safe passage and freedom of travel in a host country and affords almost total protection from local lawsuits and prosecution.
The Indian Foreign Service ( IFS) is a diplomatic service and a central civil service of the Government of India under the Ministry of External Affairs. [3] The Foreign Secretary is the head of the service. Vikram Misri is the 35th and the current Foreign Secretary. The service, consisting of civil servants is entrusted with handling the ...
Due to bilateral agreements, Diplomatic Passport and Official Passport holders are eligible for a visa on arrival if entering by air, road or sea but not train. Visa fee waived for regular or ordinary passport holders who apply in India. Barbados: Visa not required [70] 90 days Visa requirements lifted on 17 May 2019. [71] Belarus: Visa ...
Visa policy of India. Visitors to India must obtain a visa unless they come from one of the visa-exempt countries. Nationals of certain countries may obtain a visa on arrival or an e-Visa online, while others must obtain a visa from an Indian diplomatic mission .
The Citizenship Act, 1955. The Passports Act is an act of the Parliament of India "for the issue of passports and travel documents, to regulate the departure from India of citizens of India and for other persons and for matters incidental or ancillary thereto. " The Act applies to whole of India extending to citizens of India living outside the ...
The Constitution of India does not permit dual citizenship (under article 9). Indian authorities have interpreted the law to mean that a person cannot have a second country's passport simultaneously with an Indian one — even in the case of a child who is claimed by another country as a citizen of that country, and who may be required by the laws of the other country to use one of its ...
An Indian Diplomatic Passport and an Official Passport generally issued to Joint Secretary (GOI). All joint secretaries to the Government of India are entitled to a diplomatic passport . [ 46 ] They are allotted Type-V (D-II and D-I) and Type-VI (C-II) apartments in areas like New Moti Bagh across Delhi by Ministry of Urban Development 's ...