OCI Delay at Washington DC

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september2004

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Hi
I applied on November 30 through Travisa Outsourcing for family of four for OCI. The online OCI status saying

Photo/Signature at Mission : Scanned On 01-DEC-2012
Registration Status at Mission : Granted On 01-JAN-2013
Documents Printing Status PRINTED On 01-JAN-2013
Dispatched From MOIA (OCI ): On 04-JAN-2013
Documents Received at WASHINGTON NOT YET

I try to reach to Travisa and their standard answer is wait for 90 days. And try to reach embassy as usual no response. I need advise from fellow forum members, how to resolve this issue. Did anyone see the same problem with Washington DC . Any pointers greatly appreciated.
 
september2004 said:
Hi
I applied on November 30 through Travisa Outsourcing for family of four for OCI. The online OCI status saying

Photo/Signature at Mission : Scanned On 01-DEC-2012
Registration Status at Mission : Granted On 01-JAN-2013
Documents Printing Status PRINTED On 01-JAN-2013
Dispatched From MOIA (OCI ): On 04-JAN-2013
Documents Received at WASHINGTON NOT YET

I try to reach to Travisa and their standard answer is wait for 90 days. And try to reach embassy as usual no response. I need advise from fellow forum members, how to resolve this issue. Did anyone see the same problem with Washington DC . Any pointers greatly appreciated.
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I am in the same boat. Enquiry reveals 'Dispatched from MOIA (OCI) as 04 JAN 2013 and not yet received at Washington DC!
On calling Travisa the lady says they have several cases with the same status. Further probing did not yield any satisfatory reply. She said sometimes eventhough the status says 'dispatched' they may not have actually dispatched.

It doesn't make sense....
 
OCI Deply from DC Office

Hi,

I am also in same boat (applied for PIO to OCI for family of 4), applied on Nov 18th

Photo/Signature at Mission : Scanned On 23-NOV-2012
Registration Status at Mission : Granted On 01-JAN-2013
Documents Printing Status PRINTED On 01-JAN-2013
Dispatched From MOIA (OCI ): On 04-JAN-2013
Documents Received at WASHINGTON NOT YET (03/16/2013)

I got the same response from Trivisa and they mentioned around 40 applications that were granted on Jan 1st 2013 were not received yet, all of us were stuck. Did any one try to go to Indian Embassy to find out?

I think we all should coordinate and go and sit at Indian Embassy Washington DC to get our work done.

It is real bad and does not make sense at all.
 
Nope

pvgrram said:
Did any one in this post got their OCI? Please update the post!!!
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I have not received any update on my case. Looks something seriously wrong. Current thinking is that it is dispatched from New Delhi but lost on its way ..... lost in cargo or ended up wrong mission or embassy. I am happy collaborate with you Guys, if you want approach embassy collectively.
 
Hi,

I am lucky enough to talk to Trivisa and Indian Embassy this morning. Shockingly 2 of my calls connected with them no Issue.

As per call with Trivisa person:- They have no clue when we will receive our OCI's, she said may be not to expect to hear any update before end of March and there are 40 people with around 140 passports (include family members) are waiting for OCI and people are waiting from 180 days. There are not sure what to do advised us to take Visa.

As per call with Indian Embassy:- they told me that we will hear back from them next 2 days; same they told me in the first week of March too. As usual we can't trust their words.

Not sure what to do, lot of my personal planning impacted because of this delay. Trivisa comments were really discouraging.

I live in VA and I am ready to coordinate and approach embassy collectively.

Please let me know how can we do it, any ideas.
 
pvgrram said:
Hi,

I am lucky enough to talk to Trivisa and Indian Embassy this morning. Shockingly 2 of my calls connected with them no Issue.

As per call with Trivisa person:- They have no clue when we will receive our OCI's, she said may be not to expect to hear any update before end of March and there are 40 people with around 140 passports (include family members) are waiting for OCI and people are waiting from 180 days. There are not sure what to do advised us to take Visa.

As per call with Indian Embassy:- they told me that we will hear back from them next 2 days; same they told me in the first week of March too. As usual we can't trust their words.

Not sure what to do, lot of my personal planning impacted because of this delay. Trivisa comments were really discouraging.

I live in VA and I am ready to coordinate and approach embassy collectively.

Please let me know how can we do it, any ideas.
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Hi pvgrram,

Clearly we are all affected by the same mixup OR an inordinate delay at New Delhi and the status that we are seeing on MOH (Ministry of Home Affairs) is not the true status. Everyone knows it should not take 3 months for the packet to travel from ND to Washington DC.

Try and send PM to me and I will also do the same. We will see if collective representation would help. I did send a PM to user 'september2004' last week or so but I did not see any response. Not sure if he received the PM.
 
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Raju595 said:
Hi pvgrram,

Clearly we are all affected by the same mixup OR an inordinate delay at New Delhi and the status that we are seeing on MOH (Ministry of Home Affairs) is not the true status. Everyone knows it should not take 3 months for the packet to travel from ND to Washington DC.

Try and send PM to me and I will also do the same. We will see if collective representation would help. I did send a PM to user 'september2004' last week or so but I did not see any response. Not sure if he received the PM.
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Hi
I just turned on the PM and I just to send both a PM.
 
Hi Raju and Chandran,

This morning we called Cheif Seceretary (Rajesh) of External Affairs in India, tried the call around 5 AM US time and he received the call and promissed that we will receive a dispatch by tomorrow.

Surprisingly I received mail few min back to send our passports to Trivisa. I hope and wish you all will get it soon. It is good to know you. thanks for support.

Regards,
Raghuram. (pvgrram)
 
pvgrram said:
Hi Raju and Chandran,

This morning we called Cheif Seceretary (Rajesh) of External Affairs in India, tried the call around 5 AM US time and he received the call and promissed that we will receive a dispatch by tomorrow.

Surprisingly I received mail few min back to send our passports to Trivisa. I hope and wish you all will get it soon. It is good to know you. thanks for support.

Regards,
Raghuram. (pvgrram)
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Hi Raghuram and Chandran,

Good news to share. I just received (5 minutes ago - March 19th) the notification from Travisa asking me to send in the US Passport. I just verified the MOH tracking and it is also updated saying the document is received at Wash. DC on 19th March 2013.

Raghuram already confirmed and I am hoping that the everyone is seeing the positive development with their resective applications.

PS: In a wierd development I actually went to Travisa, Wisconsin Avenue Office this AM. Unfortunately it was locked and they told me to come back after 2:00PM which I belive is when their counter hours begin. My plan was to talk to a person in detail and as/if needed personally to to Indian Embassy. By the way I work in Washington DC metro area.

Thanks
Raju
 
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Same here

Hi Raju and Raghuram
I spoke yesterday with Public Information Officer, New Delhi and he promised me to take a look at it.

Few minutes back received bunch of emails from Travisa asking for passport ... whola !

Things are functioning in India. Good Luck

Take Care
 
Good to know.

We have to assume suddenly someone realized they are using an important package as a pillow!!
 
Good to see progress for you guys.

Could one of you please post the India contacts that helped. It could help others someday. thx.
 
We applied OCI on Jan 29th. March 28th we received an email that we can send in the passports. For the return envelope we sent USPS priority mail with delivery confirmation on it. Apr 2nd we got the update that the passports were shipped. Couple days and no updates in the usps website(From DC to Northern VA its usually one day, 30 miles). We call Travisa and they said, it has been mailed. Finally we receive it with the delivery confirmation label peeled off of it. Glad we got it, but lost couple days of sleep as we have air tickets booked to visit India.
 
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