OCI - New York - Travisa Issues

vishal1976 said:
Huh ...hindi koun bola yaha par .....:o
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Yahan bhi koi Hindi nahin bola(Sirf Likha) aur Indian Consulate walay bhi Hindi nahin boltey:rolleyes:. OCI jo Delhi main Print katrey hain vo Punjabi YA Hindustani boltey hain ya fir Rashtar Bhasha main Fry karkey galian detey hain vo bhi Hindi main likh kar aap ko jawab nahin detey..............
 
ginnu said:
Yahan bhi koi Hindi nahin bola(Sirf Likha) aur Indian Consulate walay bhi Hindi nahin boltey:rolleyes:. OCI jo Delhi main Print katrey hain vo Punjabi YA Hindustani boltey hain ya fir Rashtar Bhasha main Fry karkey galian detey hain vo bhi Hindi main likh kar aap ko jawab nahin detey..............
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Array wah ji! Kya baat karte ho aap bhi! Hum bhi punjabi hai... I like the Rashtara Bhasha... Yeh sabhi sirf hamare Bharat mein ho sakta hai. Jai Ho!!!
 
Hi All, have a news to report to you.

After sending emails to Consul General, Deputy Consul General and Consul OCI in New York, and after filing a complaint with BBB, I have some good news.

I have to thank specially to Deputy Consul General Dr. A.M.Gondane, who read my emails and asked Consul OCI to get details and take action. I provided all the details to Consul OCI and cc'ed Deputy Consul General.

Then comes Ingrid Thomas - General Manager Travisa, into the picture, when Consul OCI forwards my complaint in which I had mentioned clearly that by 5/20 I will be reporting this as theft, and guess what the passport was mailed on 5/17/2011, and I received it today.

So my battle is half won. the other half is get the Travisa service fee and other money they collected refunded. I told this to Travisa GM. I am hoping you will respond before I up the pressure again to get my every penny back. I have told him I have all proof of poor service, including call logs, receipts, copies of pages I sent etc.

I have to thank idk and every one who responded to this thread. it shows clearly that United we stand, divided we fall.

Stay United my fellow citizens.
God bless all,
 
bostonguy2 said:
Hi All, have a news to report to you.

After sending emails to Consul General, Deputy Consul General and Consul OCI in New York, and after filing a complaint with BBB, I have some good news.

I have to thank specially to Deputy Consul General Dr. A.M.Gondane, who read my emails and asked Consul OCI to get details and take action. I provided all the details to Consul OCI and cc'ed Deputy Consul General.

Then comes Ingrid Thomas - General Manager Travisa, into the picture, when Consul OCI forwards my complaint in which I had mentioned clearly that by 5/20 I will be reporting this as theft, and guess what the passport was mailed on 5/17/2011, and I received it today.

So my battle is half won. the other half is get the Travisa service fee and other money they collected refunded. I told this to Travisa GM. I am hoping you will respond before I up the pressure again to get my every penny back. I have told him I have all proof of poor service, including call logs, receipts, copies of pages I sent etc.

I have to thank idk and every one who responded to this thread. it shows clearly that United we stand, divided we fall.

Stay United my fellow citizens.
God bless all,
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Glad it all worked out.

I think the Deputy Consul General and Consul OCI forwarding the complaint to Travisa, made them get off their asses.

What is not right is that they were in pocession of your passport and were claiming that they had mailed it out on 5/06. Where the eff was the Passport between 05/06 and 05/17? They only mailed it out when you threatened with a police complaint.

You should probably write a follow up email with the facts to Deputy Consul General and Consul OCI stating their lies and that the Consulate needs to provide an answer as to why we should be willing to trust our passports to thieves like Travisa. Include the tracking details, the consulate should be able to ascertain for themselves that the shipping indeed did not happen until the 17th.

Might also help if you write a bad review for Travisa on Yelp.
 
Yes Idk, I will write reivew on yelp also, I think BBB is also very significant, as they broadcast the ratings to other businesses. So the impact is greater when several businesses know who the bad wolf is among them, and they can chalk out strategy to get rid of the competition.

I have mailed all the facts about lie, un-documented processing time by Travisa, poor phone quality, long wait for phone, no response to emails, different versions by different customer agents and how I was escorted out of their bldg on 5/16/2011.

I have urged Deputy Consul and Consul OCI strongly to re-consider their decision on using Travisa, or atleast consider having another vendor, so there is a competition and choices for fellow citizens.

I hope that good sense will prevail, but we all need to bring these issues to Consulate attention.

I am still not sure what Consul General did with email, I will see him during Aug 15th Parade in New York and ask him personally if he read my email about Travisa.
 
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vishal1976 said:
sab ko upperwala ka wasta hai ...koi hindi na bolo
--------Kon sa upperwala? aap ki apartment main jo upper rahta hai? Kon Hindi bola yahan? koi Hindi nahin bola, Sirf Likha aur likhnay say Handwring sudhar jaati hai.


..wara OCI aur char hafta nahi print hoga .....:
Hindi nahin to Punjabi Likh loo shayad ek haftey main mil jai? Jaldi chaye 1 din main to Italian likh doooooooooooo
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speakamericano said:
Computer bole to संगणक sangnak
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Sangnak boley to Computer aur Computer boley to Sangnak . ab baat bejey main gai malab dono ek hi hain, lakin do naam kayun diye hue hain ek hi chhej ko? yahan aa kar apun ka thoda khopdi kharb ho gali hai bhai jaldi samjh main nahin aata.:rolleyes:

Bhudhi badhaney key liye dhanayad.
 
ginnu said:
Sangnak boley to Computer aur Computer boley to Sangnak . ab baat bejey main gai malab dono ek hi hain, lakin do naam kayun diye hue hain ek hi chhej ko? yahan aa kar apun ka thoda khopdi kharb ho gali hai bhai jaldi samjh main nahin aata.:rolleyes:

Bhudhi badhaney key liye dhanayad.
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Ginnu Ji,
Consulate aur Travisa bhi to ekk si hi suvidhayein parman karti hai... Dono ke alag alag naam kyon? EK hi cheez ke do naam...array yeh toh galat baat hai.

Iss se aage hindi nahi boli jaati... mujhe english mein hindi ka anuvad karna mushkil ho raha hai... Google nein bhi saath chodd diya..usko bhi nahi itni hindi aati.
 
speakamericano said:
Ginnu Ji,
Consulate aur Travisa bhi to ekk si hi suvidhayein parman karti hai... Dono ke alag alag naam kyon? EK hi cheez ke do naam...array yeh toh galat baat hai.
-------------- Consulate main Babbu hotey hain. Travisa main Babbu nahin hotey. Consulate key Babbu Pakka Jhoot boltey hain ya saaf Mukkar jaatey hain. Travisa main Consulate valon say thoda Jhooth Kam boltey hain. Vaisay dono ek hi Theli key Chattey Battey hain..................... Travisa valay kaam to jayada Consulate key liye hi kartey hain is liye kafi gayan ki batain jaisay jhoot bool dena, Phone nahin uthana, Email ka jawab na dena vaigera vo sab Travisa nay Consulate key Babbu logon say kafi Seekh liya hai aur sheekh bhi rahey hain.
Iss se aage hindi nahi boli jaati... mujhe english mein hindi ka anuvad karna mushkil ho raha hai... Google nein bhi saath chodd diya..usko bhi nahi itni hindi aati.
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Chalo chodo fir Hindi.... Ayesh Karoooooo. Khush Rahoo Abaad rahoo..............
Good Luck!!!
 
How to withdraw an OCI ?

bostonguy2 said:
I am having a hard time with Travisa in getting my passport back now.

I initially applied for OCI on 4/1, and they acknowledged the receipt on 4/21, and then say I did not send copies of my passport ( I triple checked before sending), I said, I will send again, sent immediately to arrive with them the very next day, and they took a week to acknowledge the new copies sent. looking at the snail pace, and poor response on phone, emails, I decided to withdraw, as I needed to travel towards end of May. So I withdrew my OCI application on 4/30, and then I get a status saying that on 5/6 my passport was mailed, till today I am not able to track the mail by tracking #. When I went to their NY office today, they flat out lie, and said they sent the passport in today's mail, and I asked can she check the tracking #, she refused, saying it will be active by tomorrow morning? do they think we Indians are dumb? I asked her, what if I dont get tomorrow in the mail? she coolly says, come back tomorrow, as if I live next door.

I insisted I needed my passport or a proof that it is mailed, after that she started talking about me leaving the bldg immediately. It was one hell of an exp.

I also sent emails to Consul General and OCI Consul, no response.

I also heard same rumblings from fellow citizens who applied for OCI and stuck forever...

Share your exp. and also let me know, how to make our Consul General in NY aware of the issue? it is becoming worse instead of better.
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Hi Boston,

I have posted for OCI on Apr 12th and got an acknowledgment date of May . On May 20th it was sent to embassy. I have to leave for India on Jun 15 th. I do have a visa to travel to India until September. Obviously I have applied my OCI with no knowledge of these delays between the application date and the acknowledge date. So now I have no choice but to withdraw my OCI application. I sent an email to Travisa on the right procedure to withdraw but with no response. Would you please share, how best in your experience ,I could do this and if going in person is better for withdrawal application ? Will I be able to collect the passport in person to to save time ?

Am planning to go to the embassy or travisa..somewhere :-(..taking a day off from work on Wed, May 25th. Any suggestions would be appreciated..Thanks.
 
nyc12, try contacting Travisa by phone. When I talked to Travisa they said I can request them to withdraw the application over phone itself. Getting them on phone is of course very difficult. Try to be the first caller in the morning or some other time where you think there would less callers. Anyway, you may have to wait at least an hour before you can talk to someone.
 
y2k2010, I tried to contact the NY Travisa@(212) 754-9900 . There is a busy beep tone all the time..Do you think this is normal based on your experience? or am I dialing a phone line that is no longer answered;-(?
 
We are also facing the same problem with Travisa OCI in NY. Here's the timeline of our horrible experience with Travisa, 'Talibans' of Indian consulate NY.
We applied for OCI in March 2011 via USPS registered post. Sent our US Passports (family with 2 little kids). Sent hefty checks for renunciation + processing + tons of documents for OCI.
Got acknowledgement from OCI Travisa in April 7 2011. Need some more documents and some stupid birth certificate requirement of "India", showing NJ as a state of USA. Btw, it proves that Travisa persons are illiterate morons, who can't read the birth certificate.
Sent the birth certificates again.
Got acknowledgement from Travisa that our documents are complete and have been sent to Indian Consulate in NY.
Got an email from Travia that our OCI application has BEEN WITHDRAWN, though our money had been cashed.
Called Travisa, Mandeep Kaur, OCI, NY and she said that passports have been mailed. More than 4 weeks have passed and we haven't received our US Passports.

Our request to all OCI applicants, please "do not" send your application to TRAVISA as they are inefficient, incompetent and not properly staffed. They do not respond by email, voicemail, or fax. You will face misery. Please report this to all media- Hindustan Times, Times of India, Business Week and India Today.

We are very much worried as it seems that our US passports + Indian Passports are lost/mishandled by TRAVISA.

We have lost everything now. There is nobody to help us. We are planning to hire attorney in NY, who can do class action suit against this fraudulent agency.
 
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