The Embassy of India in Kuwait notified the Indian community of revised charges across passport and related consular services that take effect on July 1, 2026, after the Government of India published amendments in the Official Gazette four days earlier. Standard fees for an ordinary 36-page adult passport will rise from 23 Kuwaiti dinars to 38 dinars while the tatkaal expedited category increases from 68 to 76 dinars, according to the embassy’s updated schedule. The notice covers fresh issuance, re-issuance, replacement of lost or damaged documents and several miscellaneous services, applying to all applications submitted from the effective date onward.
Fees for 60-page passports will climb from 31 to 53 dinars under the regular track and from 76 to 91 dinars for tatkaal processing, the embassy notification detailed. Replacement charges for a 36-page document move from 46 to 76 dinars with the expedited rate advancing from 91 to 114 dinars, while 60-page replacements increase from 53 to 91 dinars and from 98 to 129 dinars for tatkaal. For children up to eight years old and senior citizens the standard fee rises from 15 to 26 dinars with tatkaal for minors shifting from 61 to 65 dinars and replacement categories following similar proportional adjustments.
Consular certificates including those for criminal records, passport-based birth registration, non-resident Indian status, no-objection letters, renunciation of citizenship and global entry verification will increase from 8 to 13 dinars each, the embassy schedule shows. Emergency certificates and identity certificates remain unchanged at 5 dinars and 16 dinars respectively. The embassy has directed applicants to review the complete revised list on its official website before scheduling appointments to ensure correct payment.
This represents the first revision to the passport fee structure in 14 years, according to India’s Ministry of External Affairs notification that introduced the Passports (Amendment) Rules, 2026. The MEA update applies uniformly at all Indian missions abroad, including the Kuwait embassy where a large expatriate population depends on timely document services for travel and residency compliance. Similar fee schedules have been published by other Gulf missions in response to the central directive.
The embassy notice further encompasses police clearance certificates, Overseas Citizen of India card processing and additional consular transactions that form part of routine expatriate administrative needs. Authorized service providers in Kuwait will implement the new rates at counters and online portals starting tomorrow, with advance publication intended to allow applicants to calculate total costs accurately. Officials have clarified that previously booked appointments do not exempt submissions from the updated pricing if processed after the deadline.
