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You've got 3 months to receive OCI, given current slowness, you should plan for the Travel Visa in the 1st week of December depending upon in what stage your OCI processing is. Can't say about if its okay not to send passports for OCI stamping for more than 3 months. Better email embassy to get...

So new trend looks to be acknowledgments within 4-8 weeks time period and no progress after that for another couple of weeks ...

LOL ... good one ... Happy Friday :-) DC Staff of Mr.Obama would go with him, though I don't see any reason why DC Staff of Indian Embassy goes with him to India

Thats it, you got it all correct, this is what you are supposed to send.

I had similar situation, sent them email, received back answer, stating that "Notarized Copy" of PIO is sufficient at the time of application. You should send PIO card with the passport when you send it for stamping. I did the same before even receiving their reply (reply came after 14 days).

So I had the old URL in my favorite to look for the status on my families applications. Now that URL got changed and they added, what I call an extra layer of security, in URL after the webFiler# in URL e.g. "&checksum=4108e0d3199b5e3c12d8b1685840f9b0"

Good, some move atleast.

fedupuser, you are correct, I noticed they added 'chksum' in the url after you click 'Go' and the status shows up.

Thanks VM, kids app still pending Wait ... whats up with the tracking website, its no longer showing my wife's app acknowledged .... looks like I am screwed or website is screwed.

Ociwaiting, I understand your pain, my wife's app was acknowledged today after exact 1 month ... hold your breath and wait, thats all we can do with these people.

Yes, I agree. For my case, it took them exact 5 business days to return back my passport and OCI, everybody has different experience here. Most of the time people get the passport/OCI back within 5-30 business days, and if not that means Embassy messed up.

Finally my wife's docs are acknowledged few mins ago, after exact 1 month they received the docs: 09/20/2010: OCI Docs 2 DC 09/21/2010: RECD at DC 10/21/2010: Date Of Acknowledgment

Answer below: a) No b) A cover letter along with the screenshot of the Tracking website saying the documents received at DC.

That is pure ridiculous, Diwali is coming in 10 days, so they won't work in November due to Diwali, and than in December due to Christmas ... we are pretty much screwed.

A bit frustrating now, its 5th week for my wife's application and its still not Acknowledged/Returned ... I will not be happy if they return the application for any reason now ...

Looks like finally people are seeing progress in their cases and DC embassy has started to function again ...

They are quite behind, I guess everyone has gone back to India for Diwali vacations ... so early?

Yeah, and its 1 month today for my wife's app, not even acknowledged yet :-) I received an email reply back today after 14 days of asking a 4 questions about my kids OCI... they sent me answer to 1 of my question. What a mess. I already sent the applications on next day I sent the email with...

Thanks vm1214, I think we are now all clear :-) Have a great weekend folks!!!