I just got my PCC done today along with my husband. For both of us it took around 1.5 hours.
We got ours done at Sai Arcade - Marathahalli.
Follow the below steps,
1. Book an appointment on the passportgov website. It will show you the earliest dates available. You will have to download the form, fill in the details and upload the form. If uploading is successful then you can go ahead with the booking of the appointment and the online payment for Rs. 500/-.
2. Once your payment is successful, you will need to take a print out of the PCC Application Receipt. Along with this, the following documents are required:
a) At least 2 copies of your ITA
b) 2 Self attested copies of your passport including your ECR sheet
c) 2 copies of your current address proof
3. Ensure that you reach the place before the appointment timing. Today they did not allow the processing of a few applicants as they came way past their appointment timing.
4. Wait in the normal queue. If all your documents are proper then he will hand over a file to you with a token and ask you to proceed to the applicant entry door.
5. Once you are through, then there is a waiting room where there will be LCD Screens showing the Token Number along with the counter number where they were required to proceed to. It hardly took 10 minutes of us waiting before we were sent to respective counter A, but please be alert to note when your Token number appears on the screen.
6. At the counter A , you will have to submit the file with the copies. The officer will ask for all the originals of the copies. They will also take your photo & fingerprints of both hands.
7. Once the application uploading & printing is completed at Counter A, the officer will send you to Counter B , where there again is an LCD with all Token numbers appearing. Once you're token number appears on the screen, please move to the respective counter.The officer at this counter will validate all documents and ask few questions if necessary. If all seems fine, then he will send you to Counter C
8. Counter C is the Granting counter. Again once your token number appears on the screen, please move to the respective counter and submit your file along with the original passport. My officer did not ask me any questions, just took the documents, entered the details on the computer & then asked me to stand aside and wait for 5 minutes.
9. In a few minutes, along with my passport I received 2 copies of the PCC duly signed by the respective Officer.
10. As you are exiting, you are required to submit the Token back at the exit, along with the feedback signed at the back of the Token. They will then hand you an acknowledgement sheet saying that you have been granted the PCC.
It was a very good and smooth process except for the havoc that is right outside at the initial counters where you receive your files at the onset.
Also, please note the below few points:
1. My current address is different from my passport address, but the proof that I was submitting was Aadhar card which was easily accepted. The passport office requires the complete Aadhar Card and not only the below portion. The photocopy also has to be taken the same way.
2. My husbands current address is also different from the passport address, but he did not have any proof for the address here in Bangalore, apart from the Rent Agreements. He decided to take a company letter as address proof, which was lucky for us since the Passport office does not encourage using Rental Agreements as Address Proofs. They took the original company letter to keep in their records.
3. There is a PCC letter that is also required to be submitted in the first counter. We got ours from the Photocopier who supplies the same.
4. If your passport is expiring anytime within the next 6 months, then please ensure that you renew your passport & then apply for the PCC. My husbands passport expires in January & the consultant had told us to do the PCC first & then get the passport renewed. Unfortunately, at the Passport Office, they made my husband sign a letter of declaration regarding the same.
5. If your passport shows that you are single & you are married now, then the Passport office will change your status to single as the PCC will get done only on the basis of the current Passport details.
6. Also, when your spouse is getting the PCC done, please ensure that she/he carries along with original marriage certificate along with them as the ITA will only contain the name of the Principal Applicant and not the dependent. The Marriage certificate is the only proof that you can show that you are married to the Principal Applicant.
I hope the above post clarifies all your questions/doubts. Please feel free to ask me any clarifications.
Thanks,
Avanti
