My OCI timeline

Date of Application (in person at HCI London): 16-SEP-2013
Date Of Acknowledgment: 16-SEP-2013
Documents Printing Status PROCESSED: 08-OCT-2013
Dispatched From MOIA (OCI) NEW DELHI: 11-OCT-2013
Document received At LONDON: 14-OCT-2013

You do get the cancelled passport back, with a 'revoked' stamp.

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anyone, please?

thanks

Applied in person at London VFS: 12 April 2011 Received SC & cancelled passport: 27 April 2011 Took about 40 minutes at VFS to submit my app. Cost £113. Did not self-attest any of the photocopies. Received docs (in the Special Delivery envelope I had provided) in a fortnight, which includes the Eas...

COMPLETED CITIZENSHIP & PASSPORT TIMELINE Criteria: 4+1 [HSMP JR] Type: NCS, Brent Date of submission: 22 Jan 2011 Card debited: 29 Jan Acknowledgement received: 08 Feb - letter dated 29 Jan Approval received: 24 Feb - letter dated 18 Feb Citizenship ceremony: 14 Mar Passport application: 16 Mar (ch...

hi all, a question on behalf of a friend: she is currently on a Tier 2 visa in a shortage occupation. there is a possibility of her getting a promotion shortly. the new designation will be 'Senior' and the payrise will be in the region of 10-15%. will she need to get a new Tier 2 visa in order to ac...

Type: NCS (Brent)
Date of submission: 22 Jan 2011
Criteria: 4+1 [HSMP JR]
Card debited: 29 Jan 2011
Acknowledgement received: 8 Feb 2011 (Letter dated 29 Jan 2011)
Approval received: 24 Feb 2011 (Letter dated 18 Feb 2011)

thanks Casa & msi786.

casa, i tried calling them only during their stated working hours on working days.

Hello, Has anyone had trouble getting through to Brent council's NCS number (02089371616) to make an appointment for submitting an application? I've called them loads of times over the last week, but it rings out & goes to answerphone every time. I've left a couple of voice messages but haven't hear...

hi,

quick and perhaps trivial question, but when listing residence addresses of the past five years, do we start with the current address? or (since the current address is already asked for on the prior page) do we list only previous addresses?

thanks!

but surely there has to be some upper limit?? i mean, they surely can't have the constitutional licence to just charge any amount they damn well please like and say 'pay up or f**k off', right? can you imagine the uproar if the government arbitrarily decided to henceforth charge all UK citizens £5,...

phish, a points assessment has NOTHING to do with visa refusals. if you had applied for and been denied an E.C., then yes. but merely not meeting the criteria is totally unrelated. i mean, does every PBS wannabe get the points? no. so are they then to consider themselves visa rejectees for the rest ...

recession, what recession eh! The near doubling of fees in the dependent relative category is extremely unfair, though. As for the ridiculous £15,000 biometric 'premium plus' service, i can think of only two potential customers for that - Lakshmi Mittal and Roman Abramovich ;-) According to feedbac...

I must say, I am pleasantly surprised by these relatively modest hikes. The £15 increase for single nationality applications, for example, is actually very decent - if you consider that inflation is running at 2.9% (Dec '09), the minimum justifiable fee hike could have been £18.56. And of course, ...

baradhan_s:

have you been here in the UK on an HSMP visa for all the 4 years?

if so you could qualify for Indefinite Leave to Remain right now, under the HSMP Judicial Review terms: http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/worki ... review-09/

" What to do if you don't have the forms Lost P60 If you've lost your P60 your employer can issue you with a duplicate - but this must be clearly marked as being so. Completing a P46 if you've lost your P45 If you've lost your P45, you won't be able to get a replacement. Your new employer will give ...

hmm, i see... well i think that may work for a postal app, but i have my doubts for a PEO app... and why risk a thousand pounds? forget all this scanned and certified nonsense: you'll be happy to know that you MUST, by law, be given your original P60. it's YOUR copy, not youe employer's (the employe...

@Raj_bond:
haha, true, true... though after waiting idly for two hours i felt like crying and screaming as well

@UKperson: no, all my documents were originals. what is a scanned P-60, anyway? presumably, scanned + printed = same result as a photocopy? and why do you not have the originals? the annual tax return is a pretty important document and must be kept safely... it's a bit odd that do you not have even ...

hi all, i got my ILR today at the PEO in Croydon, under HSMP-JR. it was a straightforward enough process.. i was there by 10am for my 10:30 appointment. the security check, documents check and payment took about 45 mins in all; most of that time was spent standing in queues. then i waited for an hou...

i don't think it's necessary to disclose anything not asked for. in my amateur opinion, this is an 'internal' issue with your professional body, whereas UKBA is more concerned about any criminal or civil matter which has reached the UK courts.

take a deep breath and calm down. the Jan 13 rules coming into force are only some aspects of the BCI Bill, regarding uk maternal ancestry etc. http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/newsarticles/2009/august/proposed-changes-to-law1 and the news item you've linked to indictates the areas of c...

Sreed_iyer, no need for misinformation... "The government has responded to claims that the Tier 2 (Intra company transfer) category of the points-based system is providing a loophole for Indian IT companies to bring foreign workers into the UK. Under an intra-company transfer, an employer can fill v...

they're talking about intra-company transfers, not all WP holders...

hi, congrats on getting your ILR. couple of quick (and possibly dumb) questions - grateful if you or anyone else could answer them: 1. do we need to fill & submit the payment page of the form, if we are making a PEO application? (and does one need to check the relevant box in the final checklist?) 2...