Digital Goa, June 27 – Nearly 28,000 Goans surrendered their passport at the regional passport office between 2011 and 2022. This amounts to 40 % of the 69,303 Indian citizens who surrendered their passports between this period across the country, as per media reports based on RTI reply by Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in response to application filed by a national newspaper. More than 90 per cent of the surrendered passports were from just eight states – Goa, Punjab, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, and Chandigarh. Notably, the number of passports surrendered is only a fraction of the number of citizens who renounced Indian nationality during this period. According to information shared in Parliament by Union Minister of State in the MEA V Muraleedharan on March 24 this year, between 2011 and October 31 last year, over 16.21 lakh Indians renounced their citizenship.
