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This is incorrect, accordiing to the regulations if your passport had expired before 1.1.2005 no penalty is payablekrazydude wrote:If paying a fine for not having surrendered your passport when you should have is considered a problem by you, then yes you will face a problem.
You did not cease to be an Indian citizen just because your passport reached its expiration date.
If you want to get OCI, you have to surrender your passport and you will get fined due to the rule mentioned in your post.
You might also get fined if you have traveled on your Indian Passport after you got naturalised.
Whether you go personally or by post it does not matter, they will not assess it there and then. Just make sure you put a polite letter explaining discussion above (I personally would not just print the above and take it as it would make them all defensive) with your application.in-london wrote:Great to hear the news. Assume you can now apply for OCI next?
I am planning to go to VFS personally and apply for surrender certificate.
I have printed out the pages from the sites you kindly provided, and plan to use them to support my argument that I don't need to pay any fine either.
But based on your posts I take it VFS don't raise this issue, but it's the HCI that do this?
Is there anything else I should take along to support my case?
Thanks a lot for your very helpful posts.