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MJo wrote:Hi guys,
New to this forum so might be posting this in the wrong place but hope someone can help. I recently became a naturalised British citizen and surrendered my Indian passport at VFS Victoria last week.
However, on tracking my application online, I found that the High Commission were trying to charge me the penalty for travelling on the Indian passport post naturalisation though I have not travelled on it since well before I became a British citizen.
I went to the VFS office in London and the guys spotted the mistake the High Commission had made straight away but he said he could not do anything but resubmit the application for free with a covering letter written by me.
Has anyone else had a similar experience? Will this delay my surrender certificate massively? It would be good to know what to expect.
Thank you!
Applied for the surrender certificate today. Any idea how long CGI bgham take to issue it?valluvan wrote:Sorry not sure if this is the right place for this question
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
Good news. Got the surrender certificate today. All in all 4 days for the certificate. Really impressed.Appplied for the Visa today. Hoping to get it before friday as the flight is in the weekend. Anyone how long in CGI bgham takes for a Visa for a Child?valluvan wrote:Applied for the surrender certificate today. Any idea how long CGI bgham take to issue it?valluvan wrote:Sorry not sure if this is the right place for this question
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
Apparently they stopped accepting surrender and Indian Visa applications at the same time. We were told to come back to apply for the Indian visa once we get the indian passport surrender certificate
For the benefit of others:valluvan wrote:Good news. Got the surrender certificate today. All in all 4 days for the certificate. Really impressed.Appplied for the Visa today. Hoping to get it before friday as the flight is in the weekend. Anyone how long in CGI bgham takes for a Visa for a Child?valluvan wrote:Applied for the surrender certificate today. Any idea how long CGI bgham take to issue it?valluvan wrote:Sorry not sure if this is the right place for this question
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
Apparently they stopped accepting surrender and Indian Visa applications at the same time. We were told to come back to apply for the Indian visa once we get the indian passport surrender certificate
Can someone please advise the same for London in-person applications. Thanks!welcome321 wrote:Has any one applied the Surrender Certificate applcation in Birmingham? how long it is taking these days??
Same thing happened to me to.welcome321 wrote:I have applied for sc in VFS 2 weeks back and I have paid only SC certificate fees. , I do know I need to pay penalty for using passport but VFS didn’t collected the penalty from me. Till now I have not got any call from VFS and no update. Do anyone know how long will it take? And what process likely to be?