Pratibha Sharma explains the PAN PDF password format: your date of birth as DDMMYYYY, like 05071995. Don't use your name, PAN number, spaces, or symbols. A follow-up covers checking PAN status by phone.
Are you still struggling to open your PAN PDF? Then you are probably using the wrong password. This is part two of the PAN series, and the small mistake we are going to talk about happens with almost everyone. In part one, we talked about PAN 2.0, but here we will talk about your PAN card password, which is actually very simple. It is your birth date in DDMM YYYY format. For example, if your date of birth is five. July 1995, your password for the PAN PDF will be 05071995. Please make sure there are no spaces, no symbols, and only numbers in a certain series. Most people make this one mistake— they try their name or the PAN number instead of their date of birth as the PAN card password, which is wrong. In the next part of this series, we will show you how to check your PAN status using your phone. Till then, follow us for more. More real NRI insights.
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