What to do — in this order
This is a sample case. The names and numbers are manufactured and belong to no real person.
These ticks live on this page only. Reload and they are gone: this build stores nothing about you anywhere, which is the safer thing for it to do.
Your name in EPFO is not exactly your name in Aadhaar
Who has to fix it: You · 20–45 days
- Aadhaar card
- PAN card
- Class 10 marksheet
- Passport
- Birth certificate
the Joint Declaration form is ready, filled in from your record.
Which documents are accepted? →
Your employer ran its own provident fund trust
Who has to fix it: Your employer · 30–90 days
- Trust settlement letter
- Annexure K
the letter to the trust is ready, filled in from your record.
This opens when the step above is done. Starting several at once is how work gets done twice.
You need a Scheme Certificate and do not have one
Who has to fix it: The EPFO office · 30–90 days
- UAN card
- Annexure K
- Experience certificate
the Scheme Certificate request is ready, filled in from your record.
This opens when the step above is done. Starting several at once is how work gets done twice.
Every step ticked. You can file now. How to file it →
About 90 days, in this order. Out of order, it can take months.
That is the sum along the chain of steps that must wait for each other, not a count of tasks. Steps that can run alongside add nothing.
Both figures are our own arithmetic over the same step durations: every step end to end, against the chain that actually has to wait.