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raja935
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Re: Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI)

Post by raja935 » Thu Apr 28, 2016 9:13 pm

You have to wait till status shows received in London, make sure you print the final status and take it with you when you go to submit you Passport.
goldenstarnice wrote:Date Of Acknowledgment 04-APR-2016
Registration Status at Mission LONDON
Documents Printing Status PROCESSED On 26-APR-2016
Dispatched From MOIA (OCI ) NEW DELHI On 27-APR-2016
Document received At LONDON On

Can I collect now or do I have to wait until a date appear on the last row 'Document received At LONDON On'

Thanks

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Re: Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI)

Post by upp30 » Sat Apr 30, 2016 5:09 pm

Spouse:

Date Of Acknowledgment 29-FEB-2016
Registration Status at Mission LONDON
Documents Printing Status PROCESSED On 29-APR-2016
Dispatched From MOIA (OCI ) NEW DELHI On
Document Received at London On

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Re: Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI)

Post by ukba2536 » Tue May 03, 2016 9:05 pm

ukba2536 wrote:Application Date : 07/04/2016 (3 Applications)
VFS Center: Hounslow
Acknowledment ( on Website):- 11/04/2016
Documents Printing Status : 3/May/2015- All 3 processed
Dispatched From MOIA (OCI ) :
Document received At London:
PASSPORT SUBMITTED IN PERSON :
PASSPORT AND OCI DOCUMENT RECEIVED :

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Re: Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI)

Post by nm » Thu May 05, 2016 2:22 pm

Application Date : 11-Mar-2016
VFS Center: Liverpool
Registration Status at Mission :Birmingham
Date Of Acknowledgment : 15-MAR-2016
Documents Printing Status : n/a
Dispatched From MOIA (OCI ) : n/a
Document received At Edinburgh: n/a
PASSPORT SUBMITTED IN PERSON : n/a
PASSPORT AND OCI DOCUMENT RECEIVED : n/a

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Re: Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI)

Post by raja935 » Sat May 07, 2016 10:58 am

Timeline for my Better Half:

Application Date : 24/03/2016
Application Acknowled: 29/03/2016
VFS Center: Glasgow
Original docs Received : 31/03/2016
Documents Printing Status : 27/04/2016
Dispatched From MOIA (OCI ) : 28/04/2016
Document received At Edinburgh: 03/05/2016
PASSPORT SUBMITTED IN PERSON : 04/05/2016
PASSPORT AND OCI DOCUMENT RECEIVED : 07/05/2016

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Re: Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI)

Post by jignesh455 » Wed May 11, 2016 2:58 pm

Application Date : 11/05/2016
VFS Center: Liverpool
Original docs Received :
Documents Printing Status :
Dispatched From MOIA (OCI ) :
Document received At London:
PASSPORT SUBMITTED IN PERSON :
PASSPORT AND OCI DOCUMENT RECEIVED :

Document submitted
1 x Original form
2 x photos
1 x Declaration and they asked me to fill one more during file submission
1 x passport copy (self attested)
1 x Indian passport surrender certificate and copy (self attested)
1 x Naturalisation Certificate copy and original (self attested)
jignesh

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Re: Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI)

Post by only-one-king » Thu May 12, 2016 6:49 pm

Hi. Submitted myself ,wife & daughter's British passports for OCI collection at VFS Newcastle. Ask for the acknowledgement of same. But the lady on the desk said we don't acknowledge the OCI collection . I asked further that I am submitting my British passport should get something as proof . Lady questioned me , dont u trust indian embassy? Further told me to email the Indian embassy if thay say then I will acknowledge. Rude. .. I think she was very busy and only staff member at centre frustrated dealing with so many requests. Can anyone put any light on my case? Bit worried now just in case they lost our passports as we have no acknowledgement. Kindly help.

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Re: Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI)

Post by paporanjk » Fri May 13, 2016 11:22 pm

Registration Mission : BIRMINGHAM
Application Method : VFS LIVERPOOL
Application SUBMISSION : 19-02-2016
DOCUMENTS RECEIVED : 23-02-2016
Documents Printing Status : 13-04-2016
Dispatched From MOIA (OCI ) NEW DELHI On : 18-04-2016
OCI Document received At BIRMINGHAM : 25-04-2016
Passport SUBMITTED : 27-04-2016
OCI BOOKLET & passports received On : 13-05-2016 :D

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Re: Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI)

Post by rmukherjee » Sun May 15, 2016 8:48 am

only-one-king wrote:Hi. Submitted myself ,wife & daughter's British passports for OCI collection at VFS Newcastle. Ask for the acknowledgement of same. But the lady on the desk said we don't acknowledge the OCI collection . I asked further that I am submitting my British passport should get something as proof
Yes, this is pretty strange - happened to me too. They didn't give me any receipt or any tracking ref when they took my passports. So I called them up later with my GBRL ref and they confirmed they have my passport. They sent it back with the OCI booklet in around 3 days anyway.

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Re: Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI)

Post by Ambuj » Wed May 18, 2016 9:44 am

Timeline for OCI applied for my son

Place applied: VFS Centre Edinburgh, UK on 14/03/15 but have to send an amended OCI application due to some problems with photo and thumb impression required for minor, sent the updated application on 01/04/15.
Date of Acknowledgement: 04/04/2016
Documents Printing Status: PROCESSED on 03/05/2016
Dispatched from MOIA (OCI) : NEW DELHI on 04/05/2016
Documents received at : EDINBURGH on 06/05/2016
UK passport submited : VFS Edinburgh centre on 10/05/2016
Both UK passport and OCI passport received on 18/05/2016

There is no U sticker now on the UK passport, instead a separate OCI certificate of registration ( which is like a passport itself) is issued.

I hope the above will help to get an idea for timeline in entire OCI process.

Thanks and Regards
Ambuj

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Re: Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI)

Post by Abchardik » Thu May 19, 2016 8:42 pm

Hello Friends

I am applying for OCI and I have filled application online Part A and Part B and it hasn't asked me to upload Indian Surrender Certificate / Naturalisation Certificate ... I have successfully uploaded Photogragh and signature.

Could one of you please guide me as they haven't asked me to upload Indian Surrender Certificate / Naturalisation Certificate is that correct???

I am taking following documents:
Appointment Letter
Application Form
2 photographs
British Passport
Indian Surrender Certificate
Naturalization Certificate
Marriage Certificate ( Not Sure )

Please guide me if I am wrong in this.

Thank you

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Re: Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI)

Post by rmukherjee » Fri May 20, 2016 1:02 pm

Abchardik wrote:it hasn't asked me to upload Indian Surrender Certificate / Naturalisation Certificate ... I have successfully uploaded Photogragh and signature. Could one of you please guide me as they haven't asked me to upload Indian Surrender Certificate / Naturalisation Certificate is that correct???
I don't think that's correct. You have to upload
- Indian Origin Proof - Scan of Surrender Certificate will suffice.
- Naturalisation Proof - Scan of your Naturalisation Certificate and Scan of photo page of passport.

For minors, you also have to include other documentation, such as their birth certificate (especially if born out of India), parents marriage certificate, and also their passport surrender certificate if they ever had an Indian passport.

The "Select a document type to upload" dropdown will have some options like current passport, indian origin proof, indian visa etc. I uploaded my passport surrender certificate under "Indian Origin Proof", and current passport + naturalisation certificate in one PDF under "Current Passport".

For my child I uploaded our marriage certificate scan under "Marriage Certificate", and birth certificate and passport surrender certificate as one PDF under "Indian Origin Proof".

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Re: Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI)

Post by Abchardik » Fri May 20, 2016 1:23 pm

rmukherjee wrote:
Abchardik wrote:it hasn't asked me to upload Indian Surrender Certificate / Naturalisation Certificate ... I have successfully uploaded Photogragh and signature. Could one of you please guide me as they haven't asked me to upload Indian Surrender Certificate / Naturalisation Certificate is that correct???
I don't think that's correct. You have to upload
- Indian Origin Proof - Scan of Surrender Certificate will suffice.
- Naturalisation Proof - Scan of your Naturalisation Certificate and Scan of photo page of passport.

For minors, you also have to include other documentation, such as their birth certificate (especially if born out of India), parents marriage certificate, and also their passport surrender certificate if they ever had an Indian passport.

The "Select a document type to upload" dropdown will have some options like current passport, indian origin proof, indian visa etc. I uploaded my passport surrender certificate under "Indian Origin Proof", and current passport + naturalisation certificate in one PDF under "Current Passport".

For my child I uploaded our marriage certificate scan under "Marriage Certificate", and birth certificate and passport surrender certificate as one PDF under "Indian Origin Proof".
Hi

Since i wasnt asked to upload this documents what shoud I do ??? I have appointment booked on 02/06/2016..

Please advice.

Thank you

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Re: Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI)

Post by Abchardik » Fri May 20, 2016 1:58 pm

Hi Could you help me what should I do as I havent had that option of uploading and I have appointment booked on 02/06/2016???

rmukherjee wrote:
Abchardik wrote:it hasn't asked me to upload Indian Surrender Certificate / Naturalisation Certificate ... I have successfully uploaded Photogragh and signature. Could one of you please guide me as they haven't asked me to upload Indian Surrender Certificate / Naturalisation Certificate is that correct???
I don't think that's correct. You have to upload
- Indian Origin Proof - Scan of Surrender Certificate will suffice.
- Naturalisation Proof - Scan of your Naturalisation Certificate and Scan of photo page of passport.

For minors, you also have to include other documentation, such as their birth certificate (especially if born out of India), parents marriage certificate, and also their passport surrender certificate if they ever had an Indian passport.

The "Select a document type to upload" dropdown will have some options like current passport, indian origin proof, indian visa etc. I uploaded my passport surrender certificate under "Indian Origin Proof", and current passport + naturalisation certificate in one PDF under "Current Passport".

For my child I uploaded our marriage certificate scan under "Marriage Certificate", and birth certificate and passport surrender certificate as one PDF under "Indian Origin Proof".

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Re: Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI)

Post by skreddy » Tue May 24, 2016 8:11 am

Application Date : 30/03/2016 (Chaild Application)
VFS Center: Edinburgh
Acknowledgment ( on Website):- 01/04/2016
Original Docs received : 02/04/2016
Documents Printing Status : 29/04/2016
Dispatched From MOIA (OCI ) : 02/05/2016
Document received At London: 04/05/2016
Passport Submitted in person : 12/05/2016
Passport and OCI document received : 24/05/2016

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Re: Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI)

Post by bubin123 » Wed May 25, 2016 6:40 pm

Application Date : 05/05/2016
VFS Center: Goswell Road
Acknowledgment ( on Website):- 06/05/2016
Original Docs received : 12/05/2016
Documents Printing Status :
Dispatched From MOIA (OCI ) :
Document received At London:
Passport Submitted in person :
Passport and OCI document received :

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Re: Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI)

Post by ocihelp1234 » Thu May 26, 2016 9:28 am

Date Of Acknowledgment 02-MAR-2016
Registration Status at Mission BIRMINGHAM
OCI- Number XXXXX
Documents Printing Status PROCESSED On 20-MAY-2016
Dispatched From MOIA (OCI ) NEW DELHI On 23-MAY-2016
Document received At BIRMINGHAM On 25-MAY-2016


Had some doc missing for above thus the delay. Please send VFS email periodically to ask about your OCI application.
Embassy tried to call me but i had no calls or voice mail. It is only after i sent email to VFS i got the information regarding missing docs.

===========================================================================================

PIO TO OCI :
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Date Of Acknowledgment 05-FEB-2016
Registration Status at Mission BIRMINGHAM
OCI- Number XXXXXX
Documents Printing Status PROCESSED On 18-MAR-2016
Dispatched From MOIA (OCI ) NEW DELHI On 21-MAR-2016
Document received At BIRMINGHAM On 23-MAR-2016

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Re: Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI)

Post by apply4hsmp » Fri May 27, 2016 3:15 pm

ocihelp1234 wrote:Date Of Acknowledgment 02-MAR-2016
Registration Status at Mission BIRMINGHAM
OCI- Number XXXXX
Documents Printing Status PROCESSED On 20-MAY-2016
Dispatched From MOIA (OCI ) NEW DELHI On 23-MAY-2016
Document received At BIRMINGHAM On 25-MAY-2016


Had some doc missing for above thus the delay. Please send VFS email periodically to ask about your OCI application.
Embassy tried to call me but i had no calls or voice mail. It is only after i sent email to VFS i got the information regarding missing docs.

===========================================================================================

PIO TO OCI :
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Date Of Acknowledgment 05-FEB-2016
Registration Status at Mission BIRMINGHAM
OCI- Number XXXXXX
Documents Printing Status PROCESSED On 18-MAR-2016
Dispatched From MOIA (OCI ) NEW DELHI On 21-MAR-2016
Document received At BIRMINGHAM On 23-MAR-2016
which mail id are you sending the mail please ?

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Re: Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI)

Post by mia24x7 » Sat May 28, 2016 9:02 am

Hi all,

I am awaiting a status change on the documents received at London part of the tracking system. In preparation to hand over my passport, I was going through the docs required and they ask for an acknowledgement receipt of application. What is this ?

I don't seem to have any such paper.

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Re: Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI)

Post by rmukherjee » Tue May 31, 2016 8:58 am

Abchardik wrote:Hi Could you help me what should I do as I havent had that option of uploading and I have appointment booked on 02/06/2016???
Have you already finalised your application? If not you can simply upload additional documents.

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Re: Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI)

Post by rmukherjee » Tue May 31, 2016 9:01 am

mia24x7 wrote:Hi all,

I am awaiting a status change on the documents received at London part of the tracking system. In preparation to hand over my passport, I was going through the docs required and they ask for an acknowledgement receipt of application. What is this ?

I don't seem to have any such paper.
This is the receipt VFS gives you when you apply for the OCI the first time. It refers to the money you paid for the service. Normally they staple it to something.

However normally (inspite of what the docs required says) they don't really ask for any docs when taking the passport. If you can show a printout showing your application is ready for collection, then you should be all right.

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Re: Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI)

Post by bubin123 » Tue May 31, 2016 12:56 pm

***UPDATE****
Application Date : 05/05/2016
VFS Center: Goswell Road
Acknowledgment ( on Website):- 06/05/2016
Original Docs received : 12/05/2016
Documents Printing Status : processed on 27/05/2016
Dispatched From MOIA (OCI ) : 30/05/2016
Document received At London:
Passport Submitted in person :
Passport and OCI document received :

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Re: Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI)

Post by nm » Wed Jun 01, 2016 1:17 pm

An update on the timeline


Application Date : 11-Mar-2016
VFS Center: Liverpool
Registration Status at Mission :Birmingham
Date Of Acknowledgment : 15-MAR-2016
Documents Printing Status : 16-MAY-2016
Dispatched From MOIA (OCI ) : 17-MAY-2016
Document received At Birmingham: 19-MAY-2016
PASSPORT SUBMITTED IN PERSON : 24-MAY-2016
PASSPORT AND OCI DOCUMENT RECEIVED :31-MAY-2016


It took us 8 months from Date of applying for Naturalization to till get the OCI stamped. Thanks very much for everyone who has helped in many times here.

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Re: Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI)

Post by lemony » Fri Jun 10, 2016 3:48 pm

Application Date : 06/06/2016
VFS Center: Manchester
Acknowledgment ( on Website):- 08/06/2016
Original Docs received :
Documents Printing Status :
Dispatched From MOIA (OCI ) :
Document received At London:
Passport Submitted in person :
Passport and OCI document received :

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Re: Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI)

Post by apply4hsmp » Fri Jun 10, 2016 7:27 pm

**Update**

Application for minor : 1 month old.

Online Application Date : 21/04/2016

Application Submitted VFS Center: Newcastle
Application Acknowledged: 25/04/2016

Text Received post application submission at VFS: 25/04/2016
Mail Received post application submission at VFS: 25/04/2016

Documents Printing Status PROCESSED On 06-JUN-2016
Dispatched From MOIA (OCI ) NEW DELHI On 07-JUN-2016
Document received At BIRMINGHAM On *Waiting*

I hope all gets sorted next week.

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