Our OCI has just been recieved in LONDON. Does anybody know how long its taking to collect by post now-a-days?

I sent the print out of online status and UK passport with sp del envelope. So what we get - OCI sticker in passport - anything else? hi peejay have you applied by post to recieved your OCI, i applied on 2nd feb by post..not heard anything so far cheers No nothing yet!! Hopefully will recieve somet...

Does anyone know how long it take to recieve OCI by post after its granted. Mine was approved on 2nd Feb and have sent my passport by post to get it. How long it will take to recieve now? mine was also approved on 2nd feb, what documents you sent..checked with my friend and he received the OCI and ...

Does anyone know how long it take to recieve OCI by post after its granted. Mine was approved on 2nd Feb and have sent my passport by post to get it. How long it will take to recieve now? mine was also approved on 2nd feb, what documents you sent..checked with my friend and he received the OCI and ...

Does anyone know how long it take to recieve OCI by post after its granted. Mine was approved on 2nd Feb and have sent my passport by post to get it. How long it will take to recieve now?

thanks punjabi boy...i applied by post ant they just acknowledged on 20 nov...do u think it will same afteer? Hi I will need to send my OCI application thru post as well, however I can't seem to figure the exact address to send post to (specifically who to address to). If someone has done it and kn...

Hi all, has anybody recently applied for Indian visa by post. How long it takes generally. I applied for OCI but they have just acknowledged it after weeks so dont think I will get that back in time for my visit to India. Please let me know anybody who had applied for visa recently.... Dont know ab...

Hi all, has anybody recently applied for Indian visa by post. How long it takes generally.

I applied for OCI but they have just acknowledged it after weeks so dont think I will get that back in time for my visit to India.

Please let me know anybody who had applied for visa recently....

RagsKasthuri wrote:Hi

When you applied for the surrender certificate , what was the method of payment of £90.00?

Can we make the payment as British Postal Order? or Cheque or cash?

It would be helpful if you could provide me with this information.

Thanks
Rags

postal order if applying by post.

reply to all queries: I applied on 5th oct by post . still waiting to receive the surrender certificate. I have enclosed a self addresed envelope(with app. stamp) also. They only ask for active passport, not a passport which has already been cancelled by HCI. they don't send the passport back, ther...

Can some one please let us know how to fill a group petition and send it to India High commission here in London and Minstry of External Affairs. My understanding is that this is only applicable in UK at the moment. I have checked US and canadian indian embassy site and couldnt find anything on sur...

http://www.immigrationboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=4779&start=600 Syamraj, you sure that we cant apply by post? In above message Raj has mentioned that he has spoken to HCI and they are ok with posting for surrender certificate. OK guys, I had spent my whole day yesterday at HCI London. I got it yeste...

Just to update you all. I spoke to HCI re. my son's appl for surrender certificate. They told me that acc to their record they received it yesterday (though acc to royal mail they received on 6th OCt) and told that they will process it and I will receive the certificate in a couple of days. Can you...

My application NCS or Postal: NCS, Winchester Date of submission or posting: 11/08/09 Date of arrival at HO: 13/08/09 CRITERIA: HSMP JR Date of debit of debit/credit card: 14/08/09 Date of receipt of acknowledgement: 17/08/09 Date of receipt of approval: 14/09/09 Date of invitation letter: 14/09/09 ...

rakh, yes i have done step 1 , posted my son's indian passport to them to obtain surrender certificate, along with photocopy of his naturalisation cert and british passport, £90 postal order and a covering letter instead of the form that is currently available, since it was not available then. i h...

Rakh, After 21st Sept, if you are applying for PIO/OCI/any indian visa, you need to surrender the Indian passport first. 1. First surrender the passport (with ap form, fees and other documents). they will issue certificate within a week or two. 2. then take the certificate when you apply for PIO/OC...

http://hcilondon.in/notice.php

Application form and fees published for surrendering indian passport.

thanks peejay can you pls elaborate on this ? Well...if you have contributed enough in your past in form of NI then you can claim Contribution based job seeker allowance as long as you are available for work and looking for one. I think you get that for around 6 months. For Income based jobseeker y...

santosh_99 wrote:Hi john Pls reply my question should i apply claim jobseeker allowance on the the basis of my NI contribution just to claim AXA umemployed insusrance which i have paying for years.
thanks

You can claim contribution based jobseeker allowance without effecting any immigration rules.

NCS or Postal: Postal SINGLE APPLICATION Date I found out I could apply under the HSMP JR: 25th Jul Date I applied for ILR "back-dating" letter: 27th Jul Date of submission or posting: 5th Aug (without "back-dating" letter) CRITERIA - HSMP JR (5 yrs, 10 mths) Date of debit of debit/credit card: 13t...

http://hcilondon.in/notice.php mentions about certificate but nothing about surrender certificate before oci application.

Has anyone applied recently for OCI? I want to know the timescale please.

What is the timeline before you started receiving your child benefit? I have post mine about 2 months ago and I only receive a reply acknowledge the form submission and the original BC were returned. I would appreciate if you can share the timeline between the claim submission and time you starting...

Hi Newperson, am I right in assuming that during OIC application, Indian authority only look at your British passport. So if for some reason, you travel on Indian passport after getting BC but before getting British passport - they will never know? "Your only sin here will be travelling on an invali...

thanks for the reply, Anjali. The passport I used to entered UK expired 3 years back - so do I not need to send my current passport? My current passport obviously has HSMP, ILR visa. Secondly, if it takes around 6 weeks now to get our first british passport so I can hope to get my current passport b...

Hi Stella66, can you please confirm that if you have to send your original passport (one you used to enter UK) for your british passport application and they returned that after 2 weeks with rest of the documents? Do they stamp anything on it to say that british passport applied. Many thanks I got m...