I had to get my passport ready quite quickly for a business purpose. I was able to get it done within 1 day from department of Immigration and Migration located at Punchi Borella. Place is commenly known as Passport office. So if you are also in a hurry this is what you want to do. First get 3 photographs of passport size. Then get a certified copy of your birth certificate. And you are ready to go. All you have to do it take them and go to Passport office. You can go there using 144 or 103 from Pettah and you will have to get down from the halt just after Ananda College, Maradana. After you get down ask for passport office and you will get many of people asking whether you need an application and JP signed. Just catch one guy and get him ceritify your photo and signature for about Rs 100.00. After you are done will application filling go to the passport office and handover the application. This should be done before 12 noon if you want it within a day.
And another one important thing is that you will have to take documents to confirm your profession and an acceptable one too. For example I took a letter from the Company confirming my designation. But they insisted that I should have the degree certificate. Since I didn't have a degree certificate yet I just had to get the passport without the designation. But sometimes you might get around this if you meet the less strict guy. But who knows! I was pissed off but there wasn't anything that I could do! Also don't forget to take Rs 7500/= per one day all countries passport.
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I think if you want to use one day service and if you work around colombo the best thing is to go there around 11.30 and submit your forms. So the time you want wait in the queue to authorize your application and pay the charge is minimum.
Then you can go back to your office and return at around 4.15 to the passport office and without any queue you can collect your passport.
I was able to get the passport with the occupation set to "Software Engineer" providing them the open transcript. They were ok with it. Some credit should go to the Department of Immigration and Emigration , they were very helpful and fast in my case. I went there around 2.30 pm but they allowed me to get the password through oneday (got the passport around 4.30 pm) service even though dead line is 1.00 pm. And the online application forms they have are also very helpful.
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