Hi, all:
We want to share our horrible experience at Travisa NY for OCI.
We applied for OCI at Travisa NY in March 2011. We sent all the passports, checks, certificates, Indian Passports and relevant information via certified USPS to TRAVISA. The office didn't open the mail for 3 weeks and we called them they said they are heavily backlogged.
They required some documentation about my children birth certificates, which I sent by email and regular USPS mail. They never acknowledge USPS regular mail. They claimed to have lost it. Sent again by certified USPS mail.
They said they have received the mail, they sent my application to Indian consulate NY.
I got the email from TRAVISA stating OCI application withdrawn. Travisa doesn't reply by email, voice mail or fax. They don't state any reason of withdrawing the application after receiving all documents and sending to Indian consulate NY.
Now I am stuck as my US Passports are in TRAVISA BLACKHOLE. They said that they have rejected 500 applicants and they are in process of sending back the passports.
More than 90 days have passed now and we still haven't received our US Passports and Indian Passports.
It is a scam as they will recharge again the processing fees and unnecessary delay our trip to India. Please help us and suggest what can we do. We have a tragedy at home as our family member has passed away and we have to go for last rites in India.