Hi, I wanted to apply for PIO in India. Pls can anyone share their experience on the timeline and ease/difficulty of the process while applying for PIO in India. from hci website, it seems if one is on long term visa, they can apply for PIO within India. http://hcilondon.in/pio.php Many thanks in ad...

You'll have 3months grace period during which you can use indian pasport to travel.

Hi, I'll be making an application for Naturalisation via NCS next week. I was wondering if I will be allowed to include the Pre-paid Special Delivery envelop in NCS application to reduce the delivery delay/issues on approval letter. I don't mind extra 5.50 cost I'll have to bear. Will they accept th...

Hi, The CGI Birmingham site mentions that there is 3 months grace period when no penalty will be applied if someone travels on Indian Passport after acquiring foreign passport. Can someone please confirm if HCI London follows the same. HCI London doesn't mention that and also can't find this on VFS ...

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Would you know once you surrender your Indian passport, do you now get the cancelled passport back or they keep it ?

Hi, Wish to ask if HCI London also returns the canceled passport now along with surrender certificate. Earlier they use to keep the passport and only give the surrender certificate. Though now cgibirmingham say they will return the canceled passport. http://www.cgibirmingham.org/index.php?option=com...