About a month as far as I remember. They had said during the interview to wait for up to 6 week.

We have now received my daughter's OCI in hand. Last week FRRO emailed us to inform about the OCI approval - exactly 30 days after applying, and in between we also had to submit the pending documents(which did not seem to delay the application). Today along with the OCI booklet the OCI was stamped o...

Just to give an update on the Overseas birth registration in the UK - Today I received the registration certificate along with all the original documents I had sent with the application form. The whole process was completed within 1 full week (i.e. 5 working days). So having the British passport of ...

At the time of applying the FRRO said it should get approved within 45 days though at that time they were apparently facing slight delays. That was 3 weeks ago. The 1-year "New Visa" is a multiple entry one. So you can exit and enter India without needing OCI within that period. You can also apply f...

Another update on the British Overseas Birth registration : I have now applied for the baby's overseas birth registration. In fact I had contacted them over email to ask if it's ok for me (the father of the baby) to apply from within the UK when the baby was in India. They replied it's no problem. I...

OCI update: - Applying from within India through FRRO Since my last post, we recently contacted Bangalore FRRO in connection with applying for OCI for my daughter. We were told we would need to apply for a visit visa ("New Visa") first. Visit visa: This is a 2-step process - First you need to apply...

Congratulations @Darsh24 and @H_manatee, we have applied on 29th of October and been waiting. We hope we will hear soon. @H_manatee, has your child born in India or UK?? You have mentioned about registering your child in UK. Thanks. No the baby was born in India. But as far as I have heard even tho...

Congratulations @Darsh24 and @H_manatee, we have applied on 29th of October and been waiting. We hope we will hear soon. @H_manatee, has your child born in India or UK?? You have mentioned about registering your child in UK. Thanks. No the baby was born in India. But as far as I have heard even tho...

An update from me ............ PS. They did not contact the counter-signatory at all. H_manatee Will you be applying for exit permit now or OCI? Is there anything else to be done ? eg registration, British style birth certificate etc. or all that can be done in UK? I will get exit permit and go bac...

An update from me (the original poster :D ). Apologies for not keeping in touch. Finally there is good news from my side - today my wife collected our daughter's passport from the Bangalore VFS office i.e. nearly after 250 days - more than 8 months. Since my last post - There wasn't any update until...

Long story.... let me give a crack at précis-writing. My wife and I are naturalised British Citizens of Indian origin holding OCI. My wife gave birth to a baby girl in July 2014 in India and we applied for the baby's British passport early September (2014) from India (through VFS as per the new proc...

Just a quick update - The application appears to have reached the UK IPS office as I can see £76.01 has been charged to the card exactly a week after submitting the application.

Not really sure. I was under the impression that ROA is only for those candidates whose parents were born in the UK. https://www.gov.uk/right-of-abode/commonwealth-citizens We (i.e. parents of the baby) weren't born in the UK, instead are naturalised citizens. Again I could be wrong but the option w...

Another document I forgot to mention in my above post is the Marriage certificate.

Applying for British passport for baby born in India to naturalised British citizens of Indian origin holding OCI - The new VFS process I recently applied for my baby’s British passport from India and hence thought of sharing my experience with the forum members. With the amount of help I have rece...

Thanks. I did a bit of reading on this forum to make myself familiar with the various elements involved. Now I have 3 questions: 1. Once I have the baby's birth certificate issued by the local authorities in India, can I directly go for British passport for the baby or there is an additional step to...

Hello, Both my wife and I are naturalised British citizens of Indian origin (holding overseas citizen of India card). We have settled in the UK and both of us are working here. My wife, who is pregnant, is currently in India as she intends to deliver the baby there. Hence I would like to know the pr...

Thank you lynxukauq

lynxukauq wrote:
That child will not be entitled to British citizenship since you can pass on the citizenship to ONE one generation born abroad.

In that case what will be that child's (our grand child's) nationality?

Thanks Man4Uni. That's now clear. Sidujazz - My understanding so far was that babies born overseas to British parents only need to apply for the British passport via the British embassy by supplying the local birth certificate in the foreign country. Is this registration you have mentioned one more ...

Hello, My wife and I are naturalised British citizens of Indian origin, currently working and settled in the UK. My wife is now pregnant and we intend for her to have the delivery in India. We have a couple of questions: 1. As I am told our baby will be British citizen by descent, whether there is a...