Applying for OCI and Surrender Certificates together

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Hello Friends,

I have a question for you, although it sounds trite. Would you please shed some light on whether we can apply OCI and Surrender/ Renunciation Certificate applications together or Should we apply for Surrender/ Renunciation certificate first and then go for OCI?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Regards.
 
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I have e-mailed the (useless) people at the Consulate this very same question and have not heard from them. It is unbelievable how completely disorganized they can be. Do they expect people will magically know the answers to these questions without them posting certain guideline ?
 
Applied for OCI and surrender certificate at the same time (yes, with $175 fee). Will know in couple of days (hopefully) whether they accepted the application; now that I need to pay only $20 for surrender certificate.
 
olddude said:
Applied for OCI and surrender certificate at the same time (yes, with $175 fee). Will know in couple of days (hopefully) whether they accepted the application; now that I need to pay only $20 for surrender certificate.
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Thank you Koblu and oldude for your replies. And all the best on your OCI application process. Have a good one.
 
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Hello Friends,

Here is the reply I received from SF CGI office. However, to me, it is a little ambiguous answer, but you might be able to decipher it correctly. There is a sentence that says "Apply separately." But then again, I am not sure if it is replied by an human being or automated message because the reply was not structured in a way to comprehend right away. At least, they answered, eh?



Dear Sir/Madam,

Thank you for your email. Please refer to the queries submitted:

Apply separately.

Answers to your queries may already be available on our website cgisf.org. We expect your cooperation to log on to it and go through the relevant sections patiently.

We receive a huge volume of emails. We endeavor to answer each one of those. For rendering quality service, you will, however, appreciate that we may not be in a position to entertain:

- interim status queries if posed during the normal processing period. Processing period for different services is mentioned on our website;
- any queries for which answers are available on our website
- any queries by a party other than the applicant
- any mail that does not contain the full name of the sender; his/her passport number; and his/her complete address and telephone number
- any queries originating from the jurisdiction of other Indian Embassy/Consulates

Thank you for your cooperation.


CGISF


----- Original Message ----- From: <xxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com>
To: <info@cgisf.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 1:44 PM
Subject: New query from xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx submitted a query.
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> Subject: OCI
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> Queries/Suggestions:
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> Dear Sir/Madam, Would you please clarify if we can apply for OCI card along with Renunciation/Surrender certificate together or should we apply for Surrender certificate first, and then apply for OCI card later? Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
 
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Didn't take a chance. I decided to apply separately .. have sent the renunciation form today to NY along with a 20$ fee for mailing back the passport/surrender certificate.
 
Received cancelled Indian passport and surrender certificate. No updates on OCI application. It took exactly two weeks after Chicago consulate received; to receive cancelled Indian passport and surrender certificate.
 
Congratulations are in order for olddude, I suppose, for circumventing a major hurdle. All the best on OCI card.
 
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