Indian Passport Cancellation

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rsrgc

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I intend to apply for OCI for myself/wife/child to Indian Consulate San Francisco.


The process is fill online form/ send copies of passport/add fees of $275 for each person / add 16.25 for USPS express mailing charges and also copies of the printed application for OCI

I understand that I have to cancell my Indian Passport also

Should I send my Old Indian passport at the same time with a cover letter requesting them to cancel it.

Also - are there any fees for cancellation of Passport and what about mailing charges since Indian consulate normally returns the cancelled passport by mail.


I understand that the charges slightly differ in Washington and San Francisco.

Please advise
 
rsrgc said:
I intend to apply for OCI for myself/wife/child to Indian Consulate San Francisco.


The process is fill online form/ send copies of passport/add fees of $275 for each person / add 16.25 for USPS express mailing charges and also copies of the printed application for OCI

I understand that I have to cancell my Indian Passport also

Should I send my Old Indian passport at the same time with a cover letter requesting them to cancel it.

Also - are there any fees for cancellation of Passport and what about mailing charges since Indian consulate normally returns the cancelled passport by mail.


I understand that the charges slightly differ in Washington and San Francisco.

Please advise
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No fees for cancellation, all they do is stamp cancelled on the passport.

You need to send in the passports,along with the return mail fee,only after processing of OCI is complete. That's when you send in your US passports and Indian passports. They stamp the US passport with the OCI stamp and cancel your Indian passport.
 
Also when you send in your Indian Passport for cancellation, should we send in already cancelled passport also. I have two Indian passports and they are stapled together. One is expired and cancelled; Other is current unexpired one which should be cancelled.

Just wondering if I should send both or only one. Want to send minimal set of documents to avoid confusion..
 
I confess that I don't have experience in this area, but I'll say you should send in only the latest passport. In that one, I'd think there should be a reference to the previous one linking the two, stating that it (older one) was cancelled.
Let's see what others have to say.

Good luck.

Sammy
 
Passport Cancellation

Only Valid Passport will be cancelled.

I had a valid Inidan Passport. so they stamped cancelled on it.

I gave them my wife's passport which had expired, they returned it back saying there is no need to cancel expired passport.

Hope this helps
 
Even if 2 passports are stapled togather, you have only 1 valid passport. The other one has expired and you can keep the 2 seperate (unless you have any active visas in the old one - these are of no use to you anyway because of USC). So you have to send only the latest one.
 
Indian passport send for cancellation is lost by NY consulate

After getting US passport, I send my Indian passport for Cancellation to NY consulate. TWO weeks later I called them to check the status they are saying, they didn't receive my passport. I have tracking from USPS stating that they received my mail. What should I do now ? I need help.
 
Similar experience wsa posted by "orissa" here before relating to Washington DC embassy. Apparatly he mentioned to consulate after several phone calls, he is going to file a police complaint and then the consulate started searching and mentioned they found the passport and he gor his PIO soon. Probably you should use same trick. Tell you are filing complaint as USPS says it is delivered.

Did hyou use Express mail service? which is guranteed
 
Thanks 'desihai'.

I had send thru USPS priority mail with tracking option. I will wait few more days and play the same trick. CGNY phone system is very bad, no one picks up the phone for hrs. One of my friend gave a direct # of some lady, she doesn't speak English very well and my Hindi is below avg. She forwarded the call and the person who picked up is so rude that it reminded me of my encounters with Bangalore city employees. I tried to be very polite but, it doesn't work with them.
 
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snaray53 said:
Thanks 'desihai'.

I had send thru USPS priority mail with tracking option. I will wait few more days and play the same trick. CGNY phone system is very bad, no one picks up the phone for hrs. One of my friend gave a direct # of some lady, she doesn't speak English very well and my Hindi is below avg. She forwarded the call and the person who picked up is so rude that it reminded me of my encounters with Bangalore city employees. I tried to be very polite but, it doesn't work with them.
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The experience you had with CGNY is same across all CGs. I am shocked why they behave this way. The same person will talk nicely with Walmart employees.
 
desihai,

I'm thinking now that I should apply for OCI. Couple questions since, you already applied for OCI.

Once I submit online PART A of the application, when do we have to mail PART B along PART A and other documents ? I mean....Is there any status we need to check online before we send the documents to CGNY ?

Since now I don't have original Indian passports, can I submit photocopy of Indian passport as proof of Indian origin ?

Thanks for information. Greatly appreciated.
Satish
 
snaray53 said:
Once I submit online PART A of the application, when do we have to mail PART B along PART A and other documents ? I mean....Is there any status we need to check online before we send the documents to CGNY ?

Since now I don't have original Indian passports, can I submit photocopy of Indian passport as proof of Indian origin ?

Satish
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Once online portion is over, you can immediately send Part A, Part B and all requested documents. I filled online and send everything the next day. During the application process, we only need to send them photocopies. Each CGI has different rules relating to photocopies, for example in San Francisco, PIO cards need to be notarized, but rest all need to be self attested. I used Express Mail to mail documents. In SF we also need to send a self addressed stamped Express mail envelopes. Some CGI require a $20 fee for this.
 
suggestion worked.

desihai,

Your suggestion worked... I called CGNY on 19th and asked for status, as usual they said, they haven't received our passports yet and asked me check with 'mail dept' at CGNY. I got so pissed off ... I told the guy that I will be calling NYPD to file a complaint that the passports were lost inside CGNY building. He dared to me to call NYPD and hung up. Today to my surprise, I saw my prepaid priority envelop and both of our canceled passports were in there.....

If I'm able to successfully deal with CGNY for my OCI...then...I don't have to deal with these jokers anymore. I think these people work when there is a fear or bribe.


Thanks.
 
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