Above sequence is fine. I just spoke to UK VFS Global to check if we can surrender Indian Passport in India. Their response is after becoming British citizen we need to surrender Indian passport in the UK only, after which we can apply for visitor visa / OCI. I am surprised to hear that you can't e...

I can't really answer your question directly, but am assuming the only reason you would want to travel on the Indian Passport is the amount of time it takes to get a travel visa. When I received my British Passport, I already had a holiday planned to India in the next 3 weeks. As soon as I got the B...

You needn't have surrendered your Indian Passport before applying for a tourist Visa. We received our British Passports near the end of June. We were going to travel to India in the 2nd week of July. There wasn't enough time to surrender the Indian passports, and of course for the OCI application af...