I am interested in knowing why the Indian Govt. states the OCI is lifelong since one needs to keep updating it for children until the age of 20 and once over the age of 50. The information on the HCI website states that there is no need to keep updating OCI as it is for life and it does not detail t...

Embassy in Dublin has started charging for Surrender.

I am however going to send them the passport to cancel under Section 9 of the Citizenship Act 1955 under which no renunciation is required hence no fee should be applicable.

I am really surprised that no one is challenging the whole surrendering of passport with a fee. See my post in this thread: http://www.immigrationboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=45103 I have just been reading this tread all over again and there seems to be one major discrepancy here. HCI London have the ...

I have just been reading this tread all over again and there seems to be one major discrepancy here. HCI London have the following information regarding surrendering of passport: http://hcilondon.in/renunciation.php Now this is the issue that I have: http://www.mha.nic.in/citizenship/acquire1.htm (T...

Technically speaking the Indian passport is the property of the Government of India so they can keep it. On the other hand the passport has an individual's travel history and might be required at any point of time. Say here in the UK, even after obtaining British Citizenship, the ILR can still be re...

I am more concerned about them not returning the passport after surrendering. Certainly a cancelled passport would not be of much use for travelling so why not simply return it to the holder.

Someone should raise this with the concerned Ministry in India.

Giving up citizenship does not seem to be FREE! See the following:

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/briti ... ship/cost/

I think this needs to be taken up with directly with Delhi rather than HCI as there must be some notification issued from Delhi regarding this.

Other consulates are following similar guidelines. See the link for HK consulate:
http://www.indianconsulate.org.hk/main. ... ge&XID=159

You will need to obtain a certificate of nationality for your child. Read the following link: http://www.immigrationboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=27576&highlight=certificate+nationality I did not need it since the child was born after we got ILR. In your case you will need the following as per the Pass...

Yes I plan to get a CofN in the near future.

I had applied for it but they did not issue me one saying it was not required and instructed the passport office accordingly.

Success! Irish passport received. No certificate of nationality was issued by Department of Justice. They accepted my argument and the passport office was instructed to issue the passport. Hopefully the passport guidance will be updated in due course to ensure that children born in Northern Ireland ...

Thanks for the reply RAJ. Well I have a until next year before I get British citizenship. I do not think this policy (of charging and not returning cancelled passport) is going to survive by that time.

Goodfun, How would you surrender indian certificate until you hold a british passport? therefore after you get british passport you would not need your indian passport. Therefore i am not sure what do you mean? also, if you provide a surrender certificate with a covering letter and a copy of the no...

Previous policy was to return cancelled passport and also there was no charge. The £90 charge is too steep for cancellation/surrendering of Indian nationality. I would like to know from where the HCI has got the power to charge for this service. Also as they are not returning the passport, this is ...

See this notice regarding surrendering Indian passports
http://hcilondon.in/notice.php

Any future children you have born in Northern Ireland will automatically be British. Also, they'll automatically be Irish and you should be aware that the "3 year in 4" residence rule no longer applies to permanent residents of either the Republic of Ireland or the United Kingdom. JAJ, I saw the yo...

Thanks for the link to the post. I have no issues with obtaining a certificate of nationality. The only thing is that the passport office is refusing to accept that 6A is not applicable to us and insisting that we need to prove residence in Northern Ireland. As I have quoted above, as per the 2004 N...

Thanks for the replies. I searched the forum and all the cases seem to be non-EU parents but born in Ireland. Our case is different that our child was born in Northern Ireland and the Passport Office is refusing to interpret the 2004 Act correctly. They claim that the exemption to Section 6A (requir...

Can someone please share their experience if a certificate of nationality is required for a child born in Northern Ireland. As per the 2004 Act, if non-EU parents have ILR in Northern Ireland, they should not be required to prove anything else however the passport guidance states that such parents n...

Technically, you lose your Indian nationality as soon as you become the national of another country.

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They were basically looking to see that I have been living off savings as I claimed to have and not off public funds.

They were not looking for salary going into the account during this period.

Hope this helps.

congraualation and thanks for sharing your experience so did u have any gap in between your employments ? do u know what is the maxium amount of days allowed ? I was unemployed for 6 months on HSMP. There is no time limit for unemployment on HSMP, the only requirement is that at the time of your se...

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If you have Adobe Acrobat you can open the SET(O) pdf and complete the form electronically. You can then print out the final form.

Both hand written or filling the form with Acrobat are fine as long they are legible.

Hope this helps.

global gypsy Thanks for your message. Please see below regarding your query. 1) I did not initially provide any P60. However the case worker requested it later to check for gaps in employment. I also gave him the P45 from my last employment. On the whole this is not such a big issue for HSMP as ther...

I received my ILR from PEO Corydon last week. My case was as follows: Student: Sep 2000 (Initial entry in UK) WP: Jul 2004 - Jul 2007 HSMP: Jul 2007 - Jul 2009 Applied using SET(O). HSMP Judicial Review Policy Not Applicable. I was initially concerned about the following two things: 1) My HSMP expir...