1.

To submit an application for declaration of renunciation of Indian Citizenship, the one

2. The applicant has to click on “Declaration of Renunciation of Citizenship under Section

3. Click on Initiate Application for a new application to fill or click on Modify application to
complete partially filled application or click on Print Application to generate the copy of
filled application in PDF format which the person could take the printout in order to take
the print out for hard copy of online submitted application.
 NEW APPLICATION

4. Look at the procedure for filing new application. Click on Apply Online. The following
screen would appear.
Applicant Details:

The first screen is Applicant Details and user has to provide all the details of declarant. As

shown in the screen it consists of applicant basic details such as personal information and

Indian Citizenship information, Birth details such as DoB and Place of Birth, Passport details of

declarant, Parents details like name of father and mother and their nationality, Photo and

Signature. Applicant may fill all the details and click on submit button.
5. After clicking on Submit button, The following screen would appear.

Applicant may click on OK button of the pop-up. Applicant may observe the application

Id for the future reference. At this stage the application considered as partially filled

application and if the applicant wishes to continue later on, the applicant may click close
 button but before closing, please note down the application ID which helps to complete

filling of the partially filled application.

6. Next, the applicant may click on Next button at the bottom to move further filling of

details or clicking on 2 children details from menu at the top as shown below screen.

After filling the applicant details user could navigate any of the page as well and fill the
details but before final submit filling of all the details have to be completed.

7. Children Details: The applicant might have chosen YES for the question “do you have
minor children?” in the applicant details(First page). If so, the applicant has to fill all the
minor children information mandatorily. If the applicant has chosen NO for the question
then this page is optional.
Applicant has to click Add New button to add one child details. The following screen
would appear.

Fill all the information of child and click on Save button. Once you have saved the
information of one child then the following screen would appear.

Click on OK button. The applicant may click on Add New button to save the second child
information if there are more than one child. The applicant may save all the children
information by clicking on Add New button, fill the details of the form and click on Save
button. In addition to that applicant may modify already saved information of child by
clicking on Edit button or applicant may delete the record by clicking on Delete button.
 Applicant can fill all children details including both minor children information as well as
major children information.
Applicant do not have minor children then this page of providing information of children
is optional but declarant may provide all the children details who are above 18 years of
age as well.

8. Address: Applicant can move to next page by clicking on Next button at the bottom or
clicking on 3 Address from the menu. The following page would appear.

Declarant has to fill the present address at which the person is residing currently, where
the person would like to approach for submission of online submitted application‟s hard
copy and the supporting documents, and the permanent address in India.
Fill the details as shown above based on your current residency and the office of Indian
Mission abroad at which person would like to submit their renunciation of Indian
Citizenship application. If the present address is India then the details of where you
would like to submit your declaration of renunciation of citizenship form are automatically
disabled.
9. Upload Documents: Applicant can move to next page by clicking on Next button at the
bottom or clicking on 4 Document uploading from the menu. The following page would
appear.

Applicant may choose the scanned and saved in PDF copies of Passport and Address
proof. Applicant wishes to upload any other document that can be uploaded but it is
optional. Choose files from local system and click on upload button.

Once the documents are uploaded one can observe the view Document and delete
option. If applicant wishes to remove the uploaded document the applicant may click on
delete link and the applicant gets opportunity to upload again.
10. Final Submission: Applicant can move to next page by clicking on Next button at the
bottom or clicking on 5 Final Submit from the menu. The following page would appear.
Applicant may verify the contents and the documents which are filled and uploaded
before clicking on Final Submit button at the top. If there are any changes are need to
any of the details, the applicant may click Edit button of the corresponding page or
navigate through menu or previous buttons.

Click on Final submit button and the following screen would appear.

The person may read the alert that is provided and then click on continue button so that
form gets permanently submitted and no other modifications are allowed.
Or else click on Cancel button to re verify the contents, edit the details and then again
proceed to click on Final submit button in this page.

Clicking on Confirm button the following screen would appear.

Once clicking on OK button, the one can observe MHA file number of application and
Download Application button.

The applicant can use MHA file number for future reference.

The applicant can click on Download application which generates application copy
(FORM XXII) in PDF format which has to be submitted at competent authority based on
the present address that is provided in application. The present address belongs to
abroad then the competent authority is officials of Indian Mission and if present address
is India then the competent authority is officials of local district collector office.

Clicking on Download application, the FORM XXII gets generated as shown in the below
screen with the corresponding details that are filled in the online application.
 PARTIALLY FILLED NEW APPLICATION:

11. To complete filling and submission of application which is partially filled the one would
visit the URL https://indiancitizenshiponline.nic.in

12. The applicant has to click on “Declaration of Renunciation of Citizenship under Section
8 of the Act Made by a Citizen of India who is also a Citizen or National of another
Country”. The following screen would appear.
13. Click on Modify Application. The following screen would appear.

The applicant may provide the Application ID (which was provided after saving the first
page in the earlier attempt of filing application), Date of birth and email ID.

The application will be available with all the information that „s has been saved and
available for completing and submitting the application.

PRINT APPLICATION:

14. To download the FORM XXII PDF copy of online submitted application visit the URL
https://indiancitizenshiponline.nic.in
15. The applicant has to click on “Declaration of Renunciation of Citizenship under Section
8 of the Act Made by a Citizen of India who is also a Citizen or National of another
Country”. The following screen would appear.

16. Click on Print Application. The following screen would appear.

Click on OK button.

Once clicking on OK button, the one can observe MHA file number of application and
Download Application button.

The applicant can use MHA file number for future reference.

The applicant can click on Download application which generates application copy
(FORM XXII) in PDF format which has to be submitted at competent authority based on
the present address that is provided in application. The present address belongs to
abroad then the competent authority is officials of Indian Mission and if present address
is India then the competent authority is officials of local district collector office.

Clicking on Download application, the FORM XXII gets generated as shown in the below
screen with the corresponding details that are filled in the online application.