Adding : also have the option to get the birth certificate without any name. Should i do this and get affidavits or get with birth name or married name ?
I am in the process of initiating GC for my mother who lives in India.
We recently tried to get her birth certificate and luckily her birth is registered. The municipality office is willing to issue the birth certificate in the same name as her 10th standard certificate or PAN or passport...
Have been sending reminders every week.
Very recently CGNY replied the usual 'You paid fee that was applicable on the date of service'.
I replied back stating that the fee of $175 was wrongly implemented with pitfalls, was only prevailing for 3 weeks and people who chose not to comply or...
SFO Consulate Website Update on Refund - Bad news
Cases of renunciation / surrender of passport, received/processed up to 31 May, 2010 will not be re-opened and the amount of US$ 175/- will not be refunded. No email/phone queries will be entertained in this regard.
If you are applying to USCIS, it is 355. USCIS rep confirmed. If you are applying to the state gov (travel.state.gov) then they charge 355/330 based on the type.
Reply from Jt.Sec - MEA
Dear Shri xxxx, your message was referred to the concerned Consulate:
They have indicated :
"We were only facilitating/expediting the process by holding camps on Saturday sacrificing our weekend. The rush of PIOs was unmanageable on workdays and hence this special...
I dont think we will have a standing in a court, as the indian government is free to dictate fees that it charges. Does not matter whether that fees was for 1 day or 3 weeks or 1 year. They charged fees what was prevailing when the application was processed.
Only through pressure from...
All other people are sending the emails to the trash can. JS(CPG) kept forwarding the emails for action, but now they have replied to please contact Director -MHA.
The list includes the consulate general of NY, the deputy consulate general of NY and the ambassador as well. (cg@indiacgny.org;
dcg@indiacgny.org;
ambassadoroffice@indiagov.org; )
I have written several reminders. Some email forwards were there, but pretty much no response or response saying 'Out of luck' . I dont expect them to give the money back. Not so much that they need the money, but it involves inconvenience and additional work for the staff to process refunds...
NY website update - Refund of $155 - Surrender Certificate
Cases of renunciation / surrender of passport, completed up to 31 May, 2010 will not be re-opened and the amount of US$ 175/- will not be refunded.
NY website update - Refund of $155 - Surrender Certificate
Cases of renunciation / surrender of passport, completed up to 31 May, 2010 will not be re-opened and the amount of US$ 175/- will not be refunded.
It is also not needed to obtain a Surrender certificate now, for all those who...
NY website update - Refund of $155 - Surrender Certificate
Cases of renunciation / surrender of passport, completed up to 31 May, 2010 will not be re-opened and the amount of US$ 175/- will not be refunded.
Consolidated several emails of all concerned in government and published in NY tracker thread / OCI app thread .I have sent about 5 emails so far .
Received a copy of mail from JS(CPG)
To
Jt.Secretary(Foreigners)
Sir,
As desired, the e.mail is forwarded to you for appropriate...
JS(CPG) forwarded our email to Jt.Sec(Foreigners)/Dircoord-MHA to initate appropriate action and they cc'ed us on that.
Still think this is a losing battle and a lost cause. If they had to give refund , they should have given this by now. It is 20 days since they made the decision to reduce...
I consolidated all the emails including the ones mentioned already and here they are :
eam@mea.gov.in;
mospk@mea.gov.in;
diream@mea.gov.in;
dirmospk@mea.gov.in;
dirfs@mea.gov.in
psfs@mea.gov.in;
jsskc@mea.gov.in;
jsams@mea.gov.in;
jscpv@mea.gov.in;
jscons@mea.gov.in...
I have also received the same. That looks like a newsletter of GOPIO. While GOPIO has requested for refund asking govt to kindly bear the administrative inconvenience of processing the refund, the reply from the government totally ignored that. The appeal should have been vociferous considering...
Ginnu
I have sent emails to ambassadoroffice@indiagov.org,gopio-intl@sbcglobal.net, cg@indiacgny.org
Please let us know where else we can send follow up mails.
You are absolutely right that the longer the wait, this will be forgotten totally. Even in the GOPIO petition for refund they...
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