Consulate General of India, Jeddah

CONSULAR SECTION TIMINGS

(Saturday to Wednesday)

Receipt of Passport applications / documents from applicants

0900 hours to 1200 hours

Delivery of new passports and attested documents

1600 hours to 1630 hours

Application Forms for passport services are free of cost and can either be downloaded from the website of this Consulate and websites of the outsourced firms or can be obtained from the counters.

The Consulate General of India offers the complete range of Passport and Consular Services to the Indian nationals residing under its jurisdiction. The passport work has been outsourced w.e.f. from 18^th October 2008 to three private firms viz. Al-Fifa, Al-Tayyar Travel Group and VFS Global. These firms will be accepting the passport applications at their offices in Jeddah and their collection centres at Abha, Al-Baha, Bisha, Gizan, Madinah, Najran, Tabuk, Taif and Yanbu for processing. The addresses of collections centers in Jeddah and outside are given below. These firms are, however, authorized to accept the following type of case only to begin with:

1. Expiry of validity of existing passport (New Passport in lieu of final validity Passport)

(Request can be made within one year before expiry of the Passport and even up-to one year after the expiry.)

However, application is made after one year of expiry of the passport; a sworn affidavit giving reasons for late submission has be to submitted by the applicant and an additional fee of SAR.40/- will be charged for the same. Such late renewal cases will be accepted at the Consulate only and not by the Outsourced Firms).

2. When all pages in the existing valid passport are exhausted/used up or only few blank pages are left.

3. When there is substantial Change of Appearance of the Passport holder, he/she may request for a new passport with latest photograph

4. In case of a New Born Child (New born child should have a separate passport and his/her name cannot be included in parent’s passport)

5. When the passport holder applied for change of address

Note: All other type of passport application will be dealt with at the Consulate only and the applicant is advised to contact the Consulate at the given consular hours on a working day.

The prepared passports would be delivered by the outsourced firms at the given date. Locations of the outsourced firms in Jeddah and outstations are as follows:

Station	Al-Fifa	Al-Tayyar	VFS Global
JEDDAH Main Office	Al Maqri Cenet, Near Indian Consulate General, Jeddah. Telephone: 02-6578313 Fax: 02-6511230 Email: fifa@alfifa.com Website: www.alfifa.com	Ashour Center, Madinah Raod, ‘X’ King Abdullah Road, Crossways KFC Sharfiya, P.O. Box: 11688, Jeddah-21463 Telephone No. 02-6577333 Fax: 02-6527381 Email: atg@altayyargroup.com Website: www.altayyargroup.com	2^nd Floor, Saleh Ahmed Zakir Building, Opposite Consulate General of India, Madinah Road, P.O. Box : 23220, Jeddah-21426 Telephone No.02-6534954 Fax: 02-6534927 Email: mohammedsk@vfsglobal.com Website: www.vfsglobal-n-sa.com
AL-AHAD (JIZAN)	*	Rashed Al-Osaimi Building, Main Road, Al-Ahad, Jizan. Telephone: 07-3190987; Fax: 07-3190987	*
AL-BAHA	*	*	*
JIZAN	*	Al-Shams Trading Center, Adjacent to Atheel Hotel, Jizan. Telephone: 07-3176333; Fax: 073172408	*
KHAMIS MUSHAYAT /ABHA	Kind Fahd Road, Near Trident Hotel, Abha/Khamis Mushayat. Telephone: 07-2231397 Fax: 07-2231397	Gulf Trading Center, Main Abha-Khamis Road, Khamis Mushayat. Telephone: 07-2371444; Fax: 07-2371555 Down Town Main Street, Khamis Mushayat. Telephone: 07-2372446; Fax: 072372445	*
MADINAH	King Abdul Aziz Road, Next to Al-Rajhi Bank, Madinah. Telephone: 04-8345909 Fax: 04-8345906	Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq Street, Sultana District, Near Batterji Clinic, After Enjaz Bank, P.O. Box: 25685, Madinah. Telephone: 04-8150180; Fax: 04-8150130	*
MAKKAH	*	Um-ul-Qura Road, Opposite Al-Tazaj Restaurant, Near Saudi-Holland Bank, P.O. Box : 50277, Makkah. Telephone: 02-5493777, Fax: 025603870	*
MOHAIL	*	Main Jeddah Road, King Abdul Aziz Street, Mohail. Telephone: 07-2856444; Fax: 07-2857222	*
NAJRAN	King Abdul Aziz Road, Najran. Telephone: 07-5233240 Fax: 07-5233240	King Abdul Aziz Street, Al-Faisaliya District, Najran. Telephone: 07-5228777; Fax: 07-5228444	*
SHAROURAH	*	Main Imara Street, Sharourah. Telephone: 07-5328822; Fax: 07-5329192	*
TABUK	*	Odah Falah Building, Prince Abdul Majeed Street, Al-Sulemania District, Near Baladiya Office, Tabuk. Telephone: 04-4413333; Fax: 04-4225990	*
TAIF	*	Shobra Main Street, Abu Khabar Building, Opposite Saudi Arabian Airlines, P.O. Box: 6913, Taif. Telephone: 02-7346000; Fax: 02-7384480	*
YANBU	King Abdul Aziz Road, Near Yanbu Municipality, Yanbu. Telephone: 04-3906614 Fax: 04-3906615	King Abdul Aziz Road, Opposite Riyadh Bank, P.O. Box: 1562, Yanbu Al-Bahar. Telephone: 04-3902055; Fax: 04-3902033	*

* To be announced soon.

· The outsourced firms would be receiving applications from 08.30 A.M. to 08.30 P.M. with lunch breaks on all days except Friday.

· Delivery of the processed documents will be on the next working day of application (submitted before 12.30 p.m.), if submitted in Jeddah offices of the outsourced firms and within 7-10 days if submitted at outstations.

· The outsourced firms would be charging Saudi Riyals 27/- as processing fee per application, in addition to the passport fee being levied by the Consulate. (This is as per agreement signed by the Government of India with the outsourced firms.)

Any complaints/suggestion could be addressed to the Consul-Consular and Vice Consul-Passports (Fax: 02-6520076 or email: cons@cgijeddah.com or consular@cgijeddah.com)

The Consulate General also undertakes periodical visits to those outlying areas under its Consular Jurisdiction, which have a sizeable Indian expatriate population. At present Consular Tours for rendering Passport and other Consular services are undertaken to Abha, Al-Baha, Bisha, Gizan, Madinah, Najran, Tabuk, Taif and Yanbu. These visits are widely publicised and all interested Indians living in these areas should avail themselves of this facility. Since the passport services have already been outsourced, these Consular Tours would continue till December 2008 only. Letters of complaints in labour related cases are accepted during these Consular Tours and passed on to Consul (CW) in Jeddah.

Government of India launches Overseas Citizenship of India Scheme from 14.11.2005

The Government of India has decided to implement the Overseas Citizenship of India Scheme w.e.f. November 14, 2005. All requisite information regarding the scheme and the application form is available on Ministry of Home Affairs website ( www.mha.nic.in ).