The whole OCI is made unnecessarily complicated. I know this has been said before, however why not make the OCI booklet independent just like the PIO card. This woulkd make life so much easier and one won't need to keep changing the 'U' stickers in their passports if it expires, different age group and so forth. If OCI is a Visa, then what is PIO ? How come that doesn't need to be stamped on a passport ? I believe the whole scheme was designed to keep drawing funds from customers. everytime the U visa needs to be stamped on a passport, under miscellaneous services it generates revenue for them. However for the customers, this is a complete pain in the neck. And their timelines aren't that great either. For e.g. miscellaneous services: I was told by Pushpa Kumar that this would take 6-8 weeks. I don't understand which bit of this process takes 6-8 weeks. This is for a customer (myself) who already has OCI however needs to get it transferred to a different passport. It can take 2 months for this ?? Gimme a break !!
It seems that CGINY has inherited the "Indian bureautic" ways all the way to NY !!