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But remember that you MUST NOT use your indian passport for any travel reasons after you have taken the US citizenship oath, since technically, your Indian passport becomes invalid as soon as you take US oath. You can either get your Indian passport 'cancelled' separately even if you dont...

I did not get anything attested. I just wrote 'verified true copy of original' on all photocopies, and signed and dated them (this is called self verification or self attestation). You do not need to send birth certificates for adults. Send copies of your US passports and copies of your Indian...

I dont remember the app form now, but I guess you need to make this clear in your mind that it is your wife who is applying for OCI along with your son. You are NOT applying (just doing the legwork for them :)). Once you get this clear then you will see that IF the form asks for spouse info...

Read this - http://indiacgny.org/php/showContent.php?linkid=174&partid=100&sub=sub6 Steps 11 and 12 and http://indiacgny.org/php/showContent.php?linkid=176&partid=100&sub=sub5 Question 8, 1st line of the answer says - One photo on each form and one additional photo And since the...

If you have not yet applied, then add the mailing fee of $20 to the apllication fee and get only one cashiers check made. Else if you did not add mailing fee ealier then when you send your passport for OCI sticker then send along a cashiers check for $20. As for self addressed envelope, I sent...

OCI booklet is not a passport -its just an OCI certificate. The OCI visa sticker is pasted in your foreign passport like a visa sticker of any other country. You do NOT become a dual citizen of India and any other country. Indian constitution does NOT allow dual citizenship. So your...

Since india does not allow dual citizenship, you are no longer an indian citizen as soon as you take the USC oath. No one asks for you to surrender your Indian passport at US citizenship oath ceremony. You get the Indian passport cancelled later by mailing it to the Indian embassy with proof...

Start here - Indian Embassy's link for PIO information and app form - http://www.indianembassy.org/newsite/poi.asp (Why did they decide to misspell PIO page as poi.asp, is anybody's guess :D) And this is the correct forum for PIO questions also.

As akgarg said, you have 3 yrs before you are eligible for US citizenship. For real estate buying and selling after US citizenship, you will have to acquire either a PIO or OCI visa. Those will allow you same parity as NRIs, i.e. you can buy/sell property in India except agricultural lands, but...

Spouse OCI process complete - Mailed to Washington DC on: Feb 19 2008 Date Of Acknowledgment: 27-FEB-2008 Photo/Signature Scanned On 03-MAR-2008 Registration Status Granted On 25-MAR-2008 Documents Printed On 26-MAR-2008 Documents Despatched From Delhi On 28-MAR-2008 Documents...

You were born in India - This means you were once an Indian Citizen. If so, this means you and your daughter are both eligible for OCI (and eligible for PIO also of-course). This may have changed by now, but my understanding from last year is that your daughter (assuming she is a minor) can...

Documents Received at WASHINGTON On 08-APR-2008 And it is only 07-APR-2008 today! :) Looks like the received date shown here the the date in India when the status is updated. Now I'm off to mail the passports to them!

Spouse OCI - Mailed to Washington DC on: Feb 19 2008 Date Of Acknowledgment: 27-FEB-2008 Photo/Signature Scanned On 03-MAR-2008 Registration Status Granted On 25-MAR-2008 Documents Printed On 26-MAR-2008 Documents Despatched From Delhi On 28-MAR-2008 Documents Received...

This is the new "Miscellaneous Services" for OCI. All embassies are trying to show a copy of these services, but the 'master set' of details is available here - http://www.mha.nic.in/oci/oci-main.htm http://www.mha.nic.in/oci/Introduction-28.12.07.pdf...

My passport was also only marked Cancelled by Washington DC folks, corners were not cut.