RPO Hyderabad is the top and the largest RPO out of 37 Passport Offices with 7.17 lakh passport applications accepted and 6.95 lakh passports issued during 2014, Regional Passport Officer Ashwini Sattaru told reporters here.
"During 2013, 6.56 passport applications were received and 6.32 passports were issued. This amounts to 13 per cent growth as compared to 2013," she said and attributed speedy clearance of police verification process for achieving the highest number of issuance of passports.
In view of division of Andhra Pradesh, eight districts of AP, which are currently under the jurisdiction of RPO Hyderabad will be transferred to Visakhapatnam passport office, she said, adding this includes transfer of Passport Seva Kendra in Vijayawada and Tirupati as well.
All the applicants from Anantapur, Chittoor, Kadapa, Kurnool, Nellore, Guntur and Prakasam districts besides Vijayawada would need to approach the Passport office in Visakhapatnam for all queries and passport related issues/services, she said.
In Telangana's Mahabubnagar and Medak districts, the police verification process is done in 8 days, while in AP it is done fastest in six days in Krishna district followed by Kadapa in 7 days, Ashwini said.