Hi, My OCI card has been approved & ready for collection. My Indian passport was cancelled & returned back to me at window while I had submitted application for OCI. Can anyone advise me if I need to physically surrender my cancelled Indian passport before collecting OCI card in view of rec...

Hi All, My apologies but i am starting a new thread related to changes to OCI, there is lot of confusion. i have gone through the website carefully but cant find much information and also tried calling HCI Lodon many times but no response I would like to discuss two cases CASE1: A person who already...

I must say this is a great forum. I wanted to know what is the new procedure and what is the total cost? Is it a case now that the passport has to be surrendered first and then the application for OCI can be done? I am a bit confused. Any help is highly appreciated from the members of the forum. hi...

I must say this is a great forum. I wanted to know what is the new procedure and what is the total cost? Is it a case now that the passport has to be surrendered first and then the application for OCI can be done? I am a bit confused. Any help is highly appreciated from the members of the forum. hi...

hey , did u get ur surrender certificate yet or not Hi I went yesterday to indian embassay for OCI with all possible documents they will ever ask for, but that told me that they have just changed to rules this week. Apparently my friend went last week and he was able to surrender the passport and a...

To be honest it is rediculous, to spend £90 plus four days to submit, chase up and get the PIO status... fully agree with you, is this same if we apply by post as well. the reason i am asking is , couple of months back my friend sent his Indian passport with OCI application by post and HCI simply ...

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. hi Can i ask when this notice came, the reason i am asking is i just spoke to my friend and he told tha...

I came to know from www.hcilondon.net website that from last week in order to apply for PIO or OCI one needs to surrender his/her valid Indian passport and then the Indian High Commission will issue a surrender certificate within a week. Until you get the surrender certificate one can’t apply for...