OCI - New York Tracker

The OCI process in NY is done for me and incredibly fast, at that!

I dropped off my passport in the morning. I got there at 11:30 instead of 11 (misread the website) but there was a guy who was kind enough to accept it. Picked it up at 5pm.

I got a stamp/seal/sticker-thingy in my passport and and a light blue OCI document that looks like a passport with just one blank page. I am not sure why the blank page exists, but oh well. The guy said you must travel with both.

In my stamp/sticker in the US passport, it has Firstname Lastname even though the "Field" is titled "Surname, Given names". Checked with the guy and he said it was fine.

So, that's that. Here's my timeline again --

Date FedExed - 9/6
Date Delivered (by tracking the package) - 9/7
Date Of Acknowledgment - 9/12
Photo/Signature Scanned - 9/13
Registration Status Granted - 9/18
Documents Printing Status - PRINTED
Documents Printed On - 19-SEP-2006
Documents Despatched From Delhi On - 19-SEP-2006
Documents Received at NEW YORK CGI On - 25-SEP-2006
Dropped off and Collected OCI at NY CGI On - 26-SEP-2006!! :) :) :)
 
Tracking for OCI filed in October

Date FedExed - 10/7
Date Delivered (by tracking the package) - 10/9
Date Of Acknowledgment - 10/11
Photo/Signature Scanned - 10/13
Registration Status Granted - 10/17
Documents Printing Status - PRINTED
Documents Printed On - 10/18
Dispatched from Delhi on - 10/19
NOT RECEIVED.
 
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October Tracking

Online submission: Oct 8,06
Posted USPS : Oct 10,06
Date delivered as per tracking Oct 13,06

It's almost one week and I could not see Date of Ack on online status...
Why it's getting delayed????. Any one showing status who filed after this date?
 
October tracking

Online submission: Oct 8,06
Posted USPS : Oct 10,06
Date delivered as per tracking Oct 13,06
DOA : October 23,2006
 
October Tracking

Online submission: Oct 8,06
Posted USPS : Oct 10,06
Date delivered as per tracking Oct 13,06
DOA : October 23,2006
Photo signature scanned: Oct 28, 06
Registration status granted: Oct 28,06
Doc Print status: Oct 30,06
Dispatched from Delhi: Not yet
 
October tracking...

Looks like after Diwali, this has become faster....

Online submission: Oct 8,06
Posted USPS : Oct 10,06
Date delivered as per tracking Oct 13,06
DOA : October 23,2006
Photo signature scanned: Oct 28, 06
Registration status granted: Oct 28,06
Doc Print status: Printed. Oct 30,06
Dispatched from Delhi: Oct 30,2006
 
Tacking for OCI filed in October - update

Date FedExed - 10/7
Date Delivered (by tracking the package) - 10/9
Date Of Acknowledgment - 10/11
Photo/Signature Scanned - 10/13
Registration Status Granted - 10/17
Documents Printing Status - PRINTED
Documents Printed On - 10/18
Dispatched from Delhi on - 10/19
Received at CGINY - 10/30
 
No Ackment till now from NY

Filled Part A online on 10/15/06
Sent Application on 10/17/06
Recevied on 10/18/06

When I check the online status it says
"Application with this number not yet Acknowledged"
Any one in this situation.

Thanks
 
OCI filed in October - update

Date FedExed - 10/7
Date Delivered (by tracking the package) - 10/9
Date Of Acknowledgment - 10/11
Photo/Signature Scanned - 10/13
Registration Status Granted - 10/17
Documents Printing Status - PRINTED
Documents Printed On - 10/18
Dispatched from Delhi on - 10/19
Received at CGINY - 10/30
Passport mailed to CGINY - 10/30
OCI card and passport/visa stamp received - 11/4

All in all, less than a month - impressive!
 
OCI filed in October - update

Filled Part A online on 10/15/06
Sent Application on 10/17/06
Recevied by them on 10/18/06
Date Of Acknowledgment 24-OCT-2006
Registration Status Granted On 01-NOV-2006
Photo/Signature Scanned On 31-OCT-2006
Documents Printed On 01-NOV-2006
Documents Despatched From Delhi On 02-NOV-2006
Documents Received at NEW YORK CGI On 08-NOV-2006
 
Color background of Photos

Folks

Can someone please share with me if the photographs for the OCI application have to be in some light colored background?

Is the New York Consulate General’s office accepting photographs in white background?

The instructions for filling the application form says light color background (not white) for the photographs. The standards of acceptable photographs show the photographs with Light Blue Colored Background.

Every where I go to get my passport pictures, they are providing with only white background.

Any information and ideas on this would be highly appreciated.

Thanks again

CK
 
I received my US passport stamped with OCI visa sticker and also OCI passport like booklet within 30 days of my filing the application..
I had sent my Indian passports along with US passports for cancellation but have not received that. I was under the impression that they send it back after cancelling it.
Any one facing the similar situation....
 
I received the cancelled passport along with OCI booklet and US passport. I had sent India passport for cancellation and US passport for OCI stamp last week with $15 fee for return mail
 
I am in the same category where it says:

When I check the online status it says
"Application with this number not yet Acknowledged"
Any one in this situation.

My details are as follows:

Online registration done - Oct 2006
Sent to CGNY - Nov 15, 2006
Delivered to CGNY confirmation by USPS - Nov 16, 2006

but the online status says the

"Application with this number not yet Acknowledged"

Any ideas?
 
Acknowledge and Photo scanned

My acknowledgement came through on Nov 29 and the photo scanned Dec 4

sunny narayan said:
I am in the same category where it says:

When I check the online status it says
"Application with this number not yet Acknowledged"
Any one in this situation.

My details are as follows:

Online registration done - Oct 2006
Sent to CGNY - Nov 15, 2006
Delivered to CGNY confirmation by USPS - Nov 16, 2006

but the online status says the

"Application with this number not yet Acknowledged"

Any ideas?
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Acknowledgement

It has been about 3 1/2 weeks since the NYCGI received my OCI application form. Online page does not show any update.

I have called the NYCGI folks and the only answer I get is, there has been some delay from their side, waiting for some kind of clearance from India. They have not processed any application in the past few weeks.

Also not sure if the delay is just NY or across all consulates.

Anyone else in the same status?

Timeline:
Mailed: 18-nov-06
Received at NYCGI: 20-nov-06
 
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