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I had a similar experience (pre travisa) for my wife's case. We moved from ATL to Portland. I had sent a cover letter with the new address to Houston and they send it to my new address at the time of stamping.

Through travisa by mail around 10 days round trip.

I was in the same situation with my wife's case. Decided to get a 6 month tourist visa for $73 instead of a $113 entry visa.

SSN number does not change based on immigration status. SSN number is valid for that person for life. Please ask SSN office about this.

kofking: Please send your passports when the OCI docs has been reveived at the consulate.

Even if you qualify for EB2 from an education aspect (master's degree), the job position should require a master degree for applying EB2. (i.e.) even if one has a Ph.D degree, if the job requires a high school diploma, then you cannot apply for EB1 or EB2

All visas except OCI require registration. I think the only exception is minors are not required to register, but there had been some inconsistent requirement on this.

sanjoseaug20: One thing that may happen in future is if India gives dual citizenship. May not happen in next 10 years. But then you can get best of both worlds. With so much corruption in India, I guess it may be easy for OCI's to lobby the Government to give dual citizenship.

Also it is taking around 3+ months to ack in Houston.

nri2011: My wife's case : Applied Sep 23rd. Acked Dec 28. So it looks like they are for the most part sequentially attending the application. I think it will take another few months or faster.

Tricky question. I think Indian officers should not care about other countries allowing dual citizenship. Other suggestions is to use the OCI Misc services to transfer OCI sticker to US passport (but may not be possible in 3 weeks).

You can show your US passport and Mauritius when you leave US and show the Mauritius passport + OCI when entering India.

dkmar,kofking: Please keep you us updated once your status has a change.

dkmar, Dont worry, they are still processing end of June cases. Lots of people are in Q.

You can do SC+OCI in the same package (in two envelope's inside a master envelope). I received the SC and OCI is acked.

Currently it is taking around 100-110 days for SC in Houston. Usually they give you a call to your phone number if something is wrong closer to 100 days asking you to send the missing docs directly addressed to the person who called.

Now there will another mad rush for people converting from PIO to OCI. Already the SC rule has dragged the OCI processing times in Houston consulate to 8 months. Hopefully they will honor the PIO until its expiry, otherwise I need a refund or a gratis OCI conversion. Also what about children...

I think they are processing cases on or around June (App ack date). I applied in March and got the whole thing done in 3 weeks.

The following incident is even more stranger. My collegue got US passport in 2001-2002. He has a Indian PP valid until 2008. He applied and got an India Tourist visa on his US passport in 2002. He has never traveled on his Indian PP after getting US citizenship. Now fast forward to 2010...

A tleast that means the SC is officially recorded, just that the officer forgot to sign it.