{"id":28376,"date":"2024-03-06T18:54:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T13:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=28376"},"modified":"2024-03-07T10:55:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T05:55:56","slug":"passport-fee-increase-heres-latest-fee-update-march-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/passport-fee-increase-heres-latest-fee-update-march-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Passport fee Increase: Here&#8217;s latest fee update (March 2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government has announced a significant rise in passport fees. Citizens will have to pay an additional 50% to get the basic travel document.<\/p>\n<p>Directorate General of Immigration and Passports also shared notification in this regard. The notification noted a major increase in the passport fee, with the new prices ranging from Rs 45,000 to Rs 27,000.<\/p>\n<p>The recent move by the government to raise passport fees has raised serious concerns among those who are already struggling with inflation and trying to settle abroad.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/passport-office-timings-in-pakistan-latest-update-2024-check-details.html\">Passport office timings in Pakistan latest update 2024: Check Details<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A regular 36-page passport valid for five years now costs Rs 4,500, up from Rs 3,000 under the revised fees.<\/p>\n<h2>Latest Passport fee in Pakistan<\/h2>\n<p>The Government of Pakistan has decided to enhance the Machine Readable Passport fee w.e.f. 07-03-2024.<\/p>\n<p>The federal govt has set a normal passport fee having five years of validity (36 pages) at Rs 4,500 and urgent costing Rs 7,500.<\/p>\n<p>The complete details of the passport fee hike are given below:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-28377 \" src=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/p1-832x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/p1-832x1024.jpg 832w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/p1-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/p1-768x945.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/p1.jpg 1040w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/p1-832x1024.avif 832w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/p1-244x300.avif 244w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/p1-768x945.avif 768w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/p1.avif 1040w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government has announced a significant rise in passport fees. Citizens will have to pay an additional 50% to get the basic travel document. Directorate General of Immigration and Passports also shared notification in this regard. The notification noted a major increase in the passport fee, with the new prices ranging from Rs 45,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":28383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[12326,12958,12959],"class_list":["post-28376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pakistan","tag-new-passport-fee","tag-passport-fee-in-pakistan","tag-urgent-passport-fee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}