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nitinkumar
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Indian Visa

Post by nitinkumar » Thu Oct 11, 2012 11:03 pm

I received my british passport today. I am sending the Indian passport for surrender tomorrow by post. Can I apply for Indian visa before the surrender certificate comes through. Is the surrender certificate needed for Indian Visa?

Also if I apply for the long term Indian Visa does it have a clause of no entry again for a minimum of 2 months as with tourist visas?
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welcome321
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Post by welcome321 » Fri Oct 12, 2012 9:55 am

You need to get the surrender certificate first and then apply for Visa. The restriction is only for Tourist Visa not on long term visa
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Post by disdil4u » Fri Oct 12, 2012 10:58 pm

Are you sure that restriction is only for tourist visa not on long term visa?

I have submitted my son application for surrender of indian passport on 24th Sep 2012 and till date I have not received any update.
We need to travel urgently to india and VFS does not accept visa application until i receive surrender certificate. The guy told me that if I have applied for surrender of passport and visa together then they would accept it but I did not know that until today ( I went personally to check ).

Do anyone know that how can contact consulate to speed up process as it has been 3 week complete and no progress. Its Edinburgh VFS and Edinburgh Consulate.
Normally I have seen average processing time is about 1 week.
Not sure what to do?

Any help/advice really helpful.

Thank You.
welcome321 wrote:You need to get the surrender certificate first and then apply for Visa. The restriction is only for Tourist Visa not on long term visa
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gidoc
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Post by gidoc » Sat Oct 13, 2012 8:14 pm

Normal turn time for surrender is one week and visa is a few days , if done in person from London. I guess from Edinburgh it takes more time as everything is done in London.
They stopped taking applications for both together last year, so I dont think it would have gone through. Your best bet is once you get the pp back to apply in person for teh visa at London.

All the best.
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Re: Indian Visa

Post by samkma » Fri Jan 10, 2014 4:08 pm

nitinkumar wrote:I received my british passport today. I am sending the Indian passport for surrender tomorrow by post. Can I apply for Indian visa before the surrender certificate comes through. Is the surrender certificate needed for Indian Visa?



Also if I apply for the long term Indian Visa does it have a clause of no entry again for a minimum of 2 months as with tourist visas?
This restriction has been removed.
Re-entry into India within the 2 month restriction for tourist visas
This is for information that restriction of TWO months gap between two visits has been removed by the Government of India from 4th Dec 2012.
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