The passport rules set the annexure count at nine, and the portal publishes eight of them today: A, C, D, F, G, H, I and J, with Appendix 12 alongside them. The ninth letter, E, is still named in the instruction booklet but is no longer published as a form, so this page treats it as unresolved rather than current. There is no Annexure B and no Annexure K, and every annexure an applicant signs is a plain paper self-declaration that needs no notary, no stamp paper and no magistrate (Annexures, Passport Seva, accessed 2026-08-27).
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Last verified: 2026-08-27.
Date this, because the set changed
The annexure scheme was cut from fifteen to nine on 2016-12-23, and nothing since 2016 has changed it.
The Ministry of External Affairs announcement of that date, still hosted on the passport portal, is the instrument: “The total number of Annexes prescribed in the Passport Rule, 1980, has been brought down to 9 from the present 15.” It also removed attestation entirely: annexures given by applicants “would be in the form of a self declaration on a plain paper”, and no “attestation/swearing by/before any Notary/Executive Magistrate/First Class Judicial Magistrate would be henceforth necessary” (MEA, Announcement of new Passport Rules, accessed 2026-08-27).
One trap in that document, and it is why so much published content is wrong. The letters it names are the old lettering. The surviving annexures were re-lettered afterwards, so a letter quoted from 2016 does not mean today what it meant then. Under the old scheme the Identity Certificate was Annexure B, the No Objection Certificate was M and the Prior Intimation letter was N. Today those three are A, G and H.
Nothing in the 2025 or 2026 record changes that set.
Every current annexure, and who signs it
The forms are PDFs on the government’s own site, filled in by hand. Take them from passportindia.gov.in , not from a third-party download.
Annexure | What it is for | Who signs it | Form |
A | Identity Certificate, required from Central and State Government employees, employees of statutory bodies and PSUs, and their spouse and children up to 18. In duplicate, on original stationery | The employer or head of office | AnnexureA.pdf |
C | Declaration for a minor’s passport where one parent has not given consent. On plain paper | The applying parent or guardian, alone | AnnexureC.pdf |
D | Declaration for a minor’s passport, the ordinary case. On plain paper | Both parents, or the legal guardian | AnnexureD.pdf |
E | Specimen declaration of the applicant: parents’ and spouse’s names, continuous residence, citizenship, absence of criminal proceedings. Status unsettled, see below | The applicant | Not linked from the portal |
F | Declaration for a passport in lieu of a lost or damaged passport: how and when it was lost, and where the FIR was lodged | The applicant | AnnexureF.pdf |
G | No Objection Certificate on office letterhead. The issuing officer attests the photograph so that half the signature and stamp fall on it and half on the certificate | The employer or NOC issuing officer | AnnexureG.pdf |
H | Prior Intimation letter from a government, PSU or statutory body employee to their own office, saying a passport application is being made. On plain paper | The employee, addressed to the controlling authority | AnnexureH.pdf |
I | Declaration by the genetic parents for a passport to a child born through surrogacy. On plain paper | The genetic parent or parents | AnnexureI.pdf |
J | Joint Declaration in lieu of a marriage certificate, also called the joint photo declaration | Both spouses | AnnexureJ.pdf |
Appendix 12 | Joint affidavit by both biological parents of a minor born outside of wedlock, submitted with Annexure D | Both biological parents | Appendix_12.pdf |
Sources: the Passport Seva Annexures page and each form, fetched and read 2026-08-27.
Annexure F is not the Tatkaal verification certificate
This is the most repeated error about Indian passport annexures, and it is wrong twice over.
First, the letter. Annexure F today is the lost or damaged passport declaration, as the form’s own heading says. Under the pre-2016 lettering the Tatkaal verification certificate did carry the letter F, which is why older coverage says so, but that lettering has not been current since 2016.
Second, and more important, the requirement itself no longer exists. The portal puts the question directly: “Is a Verification Certificate required from a Gazetted Officer to get a Passport under the Tatkaal Scheme?” Answer: “No.” It names the instrument that removed it, G.S.R. 939(E) dated 2019-12-16 (Tatkaal FAQ, Passport Seva, accessed 2026-08-27).
What replaced it is a document count, not a signature. A Tatkaal applicant aged 18 or above submits any three of the thirteen documents on the List of Acceptable Documents, and an applicant below 18 any two of the first six, with the Tatkaal undertaking. No gazetted officer is involved at any point.
So if a page or an agent says a Tatkaal application needs a gazetted officer’s verification certificate, on Annexure F or any other letter, they are working from rules withdrawn in 2019.
Which annexure applies to your case
Your situation | What you need |
Child’s passport, both parents consenting | Annexure D |
Child’s passport, one parent has not consented | Annexure C |
Child born outside of wedlock, both biological parents accepting parentage | Annexure D, plus the Appendix 12 affidavit |
Child born through surrogacy | Annexure I |
Passport lost, stolen or damaged | Annexure F |
Name change on marriage, without a Registrar’s marriage certificate | Annexure J |
Government, PSU or statutory body employee, and dependants | Annexure A, G or H |
Which of those three an employee submits also decides whether police verification happens before issue, after issue or not at all, and the mapping is on types of passport in India .
The full document set for each case, annexure included, is in documents required for an Indian passport .
Self-declaration means what it says
No annexure an applicant signs needs a notary, stamp paper or a magistrate. Plain paper, your own signature, and that is the whole requirement.
Annexures C, D, E, F, H and I are all self-declarations. The difference with the others is who issues them, not how they are sworn: A and G are certificates an employer issues on official stationery, so you cannot write them yourself, and J is a joint declaration signed by two private individuals.
Notarising an annexure, buying stamp paper or having one sworn before a magistrate therefore buys nothing. Anyone charging you for it is selling a step that was removed on 2016-12-23.
Two forms you can still download that are not current
Both still sit at their old addresses on the government site, and neither is linked from any page of the current portal. Neither is linked here, deliberately.
· Annexure B is headed “Specimen Verification Certificate (for passport under Tatkaal only)”. That requirement went in 2019, as above. The file is a leftover.
· Annexure K is an affidavit for married applicants, to be sworn before a First Class Judicial Magistrate or Executive Magistrate on non-judicial stamp paper. It contradicts the December 2016 reform twice: that reform abolished Annexure K, and abolished swearing before a magistrate generally.
A live download is not a live requirement. If you have arrived holding one of these forms, it is obsolete and the current requirement is different.
Annexure E, the one genuinely unsettled item
Treat Annexure E as unresolved rather than as either current or withdrawn.
The current Instruction Booklet V3.0 still cites a “Standard Affidavit as per Annexure ‘E’” as Document No. 48, but prints no specimen for it, and the live portal does not mention Annexure E anywhere in its own content. The file exists on the server and is linked from nowhere.
If a Passport Seva Kendra asks for a standard affidavit, ask which form they want and take the answer from the counter or your Regional Passport Office, rather than assuming an unlinked file is current.
The stale line printed on Appendix 12 itself
Appendix 12 tells you to furnish “Annexure-H duly signed by both the parents”. Do not.
Annexure H today is the prior intimation letter a government employee addresses to their own office. No parent signs it, and it has nothing to do with a child born outside of wedlock. The line is old lettering that was never corrected.
The portal’s current instruction is the one to follow: for unmarried parents, the declaration is Annexure D, with the Appendix 12 affidavit submitted in addition (Passport Seva FAQ, accessed 2026-08-27).
Where this sits in the passport journey
The annexure is rarely the whole file. It sits on top of an address proof, a date of birth proof and, for a re-issue, the old passport, all set out by case in documents required for an Indian passport . For a name or address change, see changing the name or address on a passport ; for a straightforward renewal, the passport renewal process .
Frequently asked questions
How many annexures are there for an Indian passport? Nine by the rules: A, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and J, with Appendix 12 alongside them. Eight of those are published as forms on the portal today; Annexure E is named in the instruction booklet but has no published form, so treat it as unresolved. The number was cut from fifteen to nine on 2016-12-23, and there is no Annexure B and no Annexure K in the current scheme.
Is Annexure F the Tatkaal verification certificate? No, on two counts. Annexure F today is the declaration for a passport in lieu of a lost or damaged passport. And the Tatkaal verification certificate from a gazetted officer was abolished by G.S.R. 939(E) dated 2019-12-16. Tatkaal now needs any three of the thirteen documents on the List of Acceptable Documents, or any two of the first six for applicants below 18.
Do passport annexures need to be notarised or sworn before a magistrate? No. Every annexure an applicant signs is a plain paper self-declaration, and attestation or swearing before a notary or a magistrate stopped being necessary on 2016-12-23. Annexure A and Annexure G are exceptions only because an employer issues them, not because they need attesting.
Which annexure is needed for a child’s passport? Annexure D in the ordinary case, signed by both parents or the legal guardian, and Annexure C where one parent has not given consent. For a child born through surrogacy the form is Annexure I, and for a child born outside of wedlock both biological parents sign the Appendix 12 affidavit in addition to Annexure D.
Can I still use Annexure B or Annexure K? No. Annexure B was the Tatkaal verification certificate, abolished in 2019, and Annexure K was an affidavit sworn before a magistrate on stamp paper, abolished in 2016. Both files can still be downloaded from the government site, but neither is linked from any page of the current portal and neither is a current requirement.
