Issuing fresh passport in India when birthdate is wrong in some documents

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Submitting educational certificates is not essential for getting a passport. I checked on the Government of India website for passports and it looks like you can use the birth certificate as proof of date of birth and Aadhar Card as proof of address. For non-ECR, you could use 12th class or college certificate which generally do not mention date of birth. Alternately, the income tax return can also be used if available.

However, I will recommend that your friend should contact the school and board to try and get the certificated corrected. You may be able to get the passport now, but this discrepancy will keep creating problems. Also, contact a good notary or lawyer to get an affidavit made which will be useful while you are working on getting the educational certificates re-issued with correct birth date.

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Trying to find a workaround this will get you into an even bigger mess.

I understand how these situations come to be in the first place but the correct procedure to fix this is to either get an affidavit which suggests that the date on the School Leaving Certificate is incorrect or get the School Leaving Certificate fixed.

Either way, not doing this at this point of time will lead to more problems in the future due to incorrect dates on some documents. I know it's difficult to get the School Leaving Certificate revised, so you should get a Notarized Affidavit to showcase that the person on the School Leaving Certificate is indeed you.

But consider this a temporary solution, the permanent solution would be to contact CBSE or ICSE and get the school leaving certificate revised.

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