A standard passport booklet format includes the cover, which contains the name of the issuing country, a national symbol, a description of the document (e.g., passport, diplomatic passport), and a biometric passport symbol, if applicable. Inside, there is a title page, also naming the country.

With more recent Indian passports the personal particulars of the passport holder, that were hitherto printed on the inner cover page, are printed on the second page of the document.

The valid passport number of India must satisfy the following conditions:

1. It should be eight characters long.
2. The first character should be an upper case alphabet.
3. The next two characters should be a number, but the first character should be any number from 1-9 and the second character should be any number from 0-9.

Diplomatic and Official passports are issued to people holding diplomatic status or deputed by the Government of India for official duty abroad. Normally applications for Diplomatic and Official passports are entertained only at the Consular, Passport and Visa (CPV) Division, Patiala House, New Delhi.

Red. This is the most common color. Passports with a red cover are often chosen by countries with a historical or current communist system. Citizens of Slovenia, China, Serbia, Russia, Latvia, Romania, Poland, and Georgia have red passports.

White Passport –Official. White passports are issued to individuals representing the Indian government in official business. The application process for an official passport is different from that of the regular blue passport.

The UAE is the only Arab nation ranked in the top 20 most powerful passports in the world in 2021. The most recent data from the Henley Passport Index, which ranks the strength of passports across the world, puts the UAE in 16th position.

Black is the rarest colour when it comes to passports. Some African countries, including Botswana, Zambia, Burundi, Gabon, Angola, Chad, Congo, Malawi all issue a black passport. Citizens of New Zealand also have a black passport – because it’s the country’s national colour.

Type P passports are regular passports which are issued to ordinary citizens of the country. The passport can be used to travel to foreign countries for personal trips, business trips, educational purposes, etc. In Type P passports, ‘P’ stands for ‘personal’.

As per these records, the British passport is currently ranked as the 7th powerful passport in the world. British passport provides visa-free access to 190 countries….U.K. passport is 7th most powerful in the world.

The Passport Seva (Passport Service) unit of the Consular, Passport & Visa (CPV) Division of the Ministry of External Affairs functions as the central passport organisation, and is responsible for issuing Indian passports on demand to all eligible Indian citizens.

Types of passport. Ordinary Passport (Dark Blue) is issued to ordinary citizens for ordinary travel, such as for vacation, study and business trips (36 or 60 pages). It is a “Type P” passport, where P stands for Personal. Official Passport (White cover) is issued to individuals representing the Indian government on official business.

The official website of the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, for applying Passport services is www.passportindia.gov.in. Alternatively, applicants may also use the official mobile App mPassport Seva which can be downloaded from Android and iOS application stores. Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India.

In India, the e-passport is under its first phase of deployment and is restricted to Diplomatic passport holders. On 25 June 2008 the Indian Passport Authority issued the e-passport to the then President of India Pratibha Patil. As of 2016, the Government has plans to issue e-passports to all of its citizens.