India Visa - CGI Birmingham

[valluvan]

We had applied for a UK passport for my Child 3 weeks back and since we were promised to get it within 2 weeks of submission, I had booked our tickets to India on 29th Jul. The plan was to apply for a Indian visa for my daughter once the UK passport comes.

Does anyone know how long CGI b'gham take to issue an Indian Visa. Becoming concerned as the British passport has not yet come and we have only 6 working days before our travel.

Another twist is that me and my daughter(wife is still on ILR) aquired BC only a month back and we have not yet surrended/cancelled our Indian passports yet. I don't know if this will come to haunt us when we apply for a Indian Visa for my daughter.

Any thoughts/Suggestions?

Cheers
Val

[valluvan]

In addition to above...Just realized that my daughter's Indian passport has actually expired. In this case is it still required to apply for a surrender certificate before applying for an Indian Visa??

[valluvan]

In addition to above...Just realized that my daughter's Indian passport has actually expired. In this case is it still required to apply for a surrender certificate before applying for an Indian Visa??

For the benefit of others:

We got the visa today. Timelines below

Surrender Certificate applcation Submission: 26-Jul-2012
Surrender Certificate Ready for collection: 31-Jul-2012
Indian Visa Application: 31-Jul-2012
Indian Visa ready for collection: 2-Aug-2012

It took 4 working days for surrender and 3 days for Visa. Notificed that around 10.30 A.M the status for online tracking the application changes and the text/sms gets sent out at 1.30PM