ivan80 wrote:jaysingh2k wrote:ivan80 wrote:FYI - for anyone who has applied as a SPOUSE for an OCI card.
Has anyone else applied for OCI based on their spouse - i.e. husband foreign born and wife born in India and has OCI card?
Please advise on how long anyone has waited for it.
Hi Jaysingh,
I have been waiting for my wifes OCI since 25-07-2016 and some1 else here has been waiting since May 2016... what about you... how long have you waited?
Thanks,
Hi Ivan,
I actually haven't applied for my own OCI yet. So far, I have at the moment applied for OCI for my wife who is from India and is now British citizen with myself born British citizen. I had both OCI applications all prepared and ready to take in the VFS office to apply. But they said I can't apply yet, and have to wait till my wife's OCI comes. It took 53 days for her status to change from Under Processed to Processed (on last Monday 19th Sept). I went into VFS office last Friday to hand in the passport for their so called "stamping". But as they no longer put a sticker in the passport, so why do they need the passport as it was all checked off at the VFS office on the day we applied. Now we have been told it takes 8-10 days for the passport to be sent back with the OCI card.
Then, I have been told I can apply for my own OCI card based on my wife who is a now a OCI card holder. But having read other people's own experiences of how long this type of application takes, it going to take months!
We are due to go in Feb next year (which is why I applied for OCI well before in time - good job I did). But I have a feeling my OCI won't get processed for a while, so I may need to get a 6 months visa whilst the OCI is getting processed.
Based on the volume of people applying for OCIs, why doesn't the Indian government have the processing done here in UK. If they can for visas which they have 100s of applications for, why not OCI?
Some people have had their OCIs processed within 4-5 weeks who applied last year/beginning of this year. But I think because of the Indian government has given the deadline of 31st Dec for any PIO cardholders can convert to OCI for free, every PIO cardholder is now rushing to get theirs converted before this date, so that means more workload now at the OCI processing office, meaning more time to wait!