What was the reason that yor date of birth was entered erroneously?
Was it due to your fault or due to the passport authorities fault?
If the applicant was a major when his/her first passport with incorrect date of birth was issued, he/she can correct it, within five years of issue of the first passport. No change of date of birth is allowed afterwards.
It is pertinent to mention that recently, the High Court of Kerala while
hearing the WP No. 9073 of 201 5 (Jayah-umar Vs vor & others) has delivered a
land-mark judgment on the issue of correction/change of entries regardin g
date/place of birth in the passport. During the course of arguments, the Court
ha s elaborated upon the fact that the details entered in the Passport cannot be • lightly interfered with, that too after many years without any sustainable cause
and without any explanation as to why initially such a wrong declaration was
made and why now a change is sought that too based on a document which
was available with the applicant when the original declaration was made.
Hence, the core principle of the judgment of the High Court of Kerala is
that only the bonafide claims of the applicants for the change/correction of the
date of birth in the passport should be accepted and that too if the same are
submitted by them within a reasonable time limit after the issuance of
passport. In pursu ance of the directions of the High Court, it h as been decided
that henceforth, all the PIA shall follow the following instructions/ guidelines in
order to consider the claims/request the applicant for the change/correction of
entries regarding of date of birth in their passports
Where an applicant claims clerical/technical mistake in the entry
relating to birth/place of birth in the passport and asks for
rectificationl correction:
In all such cases, the documents produced earlier as proof of date
of birth/place of birth at the time of issue of passport may be perused (if
not already destroyed) by PIA. [n case, it is a clerical mistake either by
the applicant or th e P[A, date/place of birth correction may be allowed by
issue of fresh booklet; in the former case by charging fee for fresh
passport and in th latter 'gratis' (same as mentioned in Ministry's
Circular No . VI/401/2/S/2001, dated 29/10/2007).