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bostonguy2

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I am having a hard time with Travisa in getting my passport back now.

I initially applied for OCI on 4/1, and they acknowledged the receipt on 4/21, and then say I did not send copies of my passport ( I triple checked before sending), I said, I will send again, sent immediately to arrive with them the very next day, and they took a week to acknowledge the new copies sent. looking at the snail pace, and poor response on phone, emails, I decided to withdraw, as I needed to travel towards end of May. So I withdrew my OCI application on 4/30, and then I get a status saying that on 5/6 my passport was mailed, till today I am not able to track the mail by tracking #. When I went to their NY office today, they flat out lie, and said they sent the passport in today's mail, and I asked can she check the tracking #, she refused, saying it will be active by tomorrow morning? do they think we Indians are dumb? I asked her, what if I dont get tomorrow in the mail? she coolly says, come back tomorrow, as if I live next door.

I insisted I needed my passport or a proof that it is mailed, after that she started talking about me leaving the bldg immediately. It was one hell of an exp.

I also sent emails to Consul General and OCI Consul, no response.

I also heard same rumblings from fellow citizens who applied for OCI and stuck forever...

Share your exp. and also let me know, how to make our Consul General in NY aware of the issue? it is becoming worse instead of better.
 
I think your best option is to try and get on the phone with the NY consulate. This entire process is a farce and freaking outrageous.
 
idk, I emailed to Consulate General, Deputy Consulate General, and Consul - OCI, Deputy CG replied asking details, so he can follow up.

However the OCI Consul is saying whatever Travisa said to me.

In my reply to OCI Consul, I have told them that, I will have to report this to local police, as a Theft case involving my passport by Travisa and it's agents. Will post the outcome.
I also suggested to use another agent, so there is a competition and fellow citizens have choice of vendor.

They have no business to keep my passport any longer, yet they spit lies, stories etc.
 
I just hope these people are not selling out private information. God knows where OP's passport is. My area's local police would only give me a lost passport police report and I'd have to send it out to the Passport Agency with other documents.

Due to the high number of unemployment there is a lot more crime happening here in my town. The travisa office here in San Francisco is located on the dumps of Mission St. You go around a block and you could find hookers and pimps. For god's sake, they have more tow trucks hanging out there than police. A few weeks ago, there was a case where the police raided this local shop in San Francisco where the people were making fake passports and fake IDs and selling for money.

It'd suck to have your passport lost and that too at a Travisa office at San Francisco, Hopefully the NY is better
 
@speakamericano, I will report to my local police as theft by Travisa, I am not going to say it is lost. It is the fact that unless they produce shipping proof, they have my passport, and per my withdrawal, they have no right to keep it with them, no matter what bull they spit out about shipping.

I am so angry when I learn that Indian Consulates all over embracing this horrible company to do processing of VISA, OCI and PIO.

Your SFO scenario scares anyone hell out of them, if they have to come across pimps and hookers, the scariest is FAKE PASSPORTs.

I think we all have to flood our Indian Consul Generals about this Travisa hell.
 
Thank god, that when i had my oci application around august last year, the CGNY was dealing with it directly. I did have a delay of a week, i called the cgny number but no one answered and i decided to call the deputy cg, he took information and in the afternoon a lady from the office called me and gave me the tracking info.


thank god things went fine, didnt know that it could be so hectic!
 
bostonguy2 said:
@speakamericano, I will report to my local police as theft by Travisa, I am not going to say it is lost. It is the fact that unless they produce shipping proof, they have my passport, and per my withdrawal, they have no right to keep it with them, no matter what bull they spit out about shipping.

I am so angry when I learn that Indian Consulates all over embracing this horrible company to do processing of VISA, OCI and PIO.

Your SFO scenario scares anyone hell out of them, if they have to come across pimps and hookers, the scariest is FAKE PASSPORTs.

I think we all have to flood our Indian Consul Generals about this Travisa hell.
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I agree with you. Report it as stolen. If the passport is lost, then travisa must be able to provide you with a proof of delivery from their side. But they're not evening telling you if the passport is with them or not. This is the worst as they keep you hanging on fake hope. Hopefully the stolen part would make more sense than lost to the authorities. San Francisco is really bad. Travisa is located on Mission St. If you go left then you end up at the train station. If you go right, then there's a whole block of people hanging out with drugs, porn shops, Asian massage parlors and God knows what... there's always a woman or two hanging by the parking meters looking for anyone that comes their way.
Few months ago, I think last year, someone found passport information and other personal information of the applicants at the San Francisco Consulate's recycle bin.. They weren't even shredding the papers. Lazy people.
Indian Consulates do not listen to any complaints. I've sent them numerous emails regarding my name correction in the past. All of them give you the same BS answer. and now the service is outsourced to travisa, they don't take name change ads anymore. They must have a court order in hand, even if there's no name change involved.
For ex. US gov't doesn't recognize middle name drop as a name change, but the indian govt does. Where do you get a court order from when there's no name change? These people don't have common sense where they can look at the picture and match the date of birth.
 
bostonguy2 said:
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I am so angry when I learn that Indian Consulates all over embracing this horrible company to do processing of VISA, OCI and PIO.
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I think we all have to flood our Indian Consul Generals about this Travisa hell.
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If you google for Travisa reviews, without exception you will see that they have bad reviews on Yelp and other places.

The question then is, whose dick did they suck at the Embassy/Ministry of Overseas Affairs to be awarded this contract.
 
idk said:
If you google for Travisa reviews, without exception you will see that they have bad reviews on Yelp and other places.

The question then is, whose dick did they suck at the Embassy/Ministry of Overseas Affairs to be awarded this contract.
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Agreed with IDK. Yelp has pretty bad reviews written for Travisa. and everything you see on Travisa's website as reviews is pure BS. There's a comment on Travisa's website that says, "Thank You for processing my child's PIO in just 3 days." Who are these people fooling. PIO is impossible in 3 days as it takes them 3 weeks to open the mail.

Embassy walon ne rishwat di hogi. They must have given money to Travisa for taking out the OCI/PIO/Renunciation crowd out of the Embassy. I remember when I had my Indian passport renewed, the embassy used to be a mess. There was no sign for OCI/PIO/Renunciation/Passport pick up. There's only one window and people picked up their paperwork from there.
 
I don't want to get yell by all the angee oci people but I did not had bad experience with them. I applied for OCI with chicago and sooner or later( 45+ days) I got every thing back nice and clean. My parents applied from NY directly from consulate ( they live in Ohio). It's being 7 months and now they are told that they need to reply. They cashed out the checks and everything.
I told them use my address and apply to chicago..
 
familygupta said:
I don't want to get yell by all the angee oci people but I did not had bad experience with them. I applied for OCI with chicago and sooner or later( 45+ days) I got every thing back nice and clean. My parents applied from NY directly from consulate ( they live in Ohio). It's being 7 months and now they are told that they need to reply. They cashed out the checks and everything.
I told them use my address and apply to chicago..
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Apna Apna experience hai Gupta ji. You were lucky not to have a bad one..
 
vishal1976 said:
apna apna naseeb nahi Speakamericano Ji ....bas Gupta ji lucky nikala ......warna sara Fassa hua hai ....:( ( Oci Granted 19th april till no printe date ....)
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Array! I thought the printer was working on the 13th... Lagta hai fir se toot gaya. Printer bhi desi nikla, mood bane to chalta hai, mood na ho to toot jaata hai.
 
speakamericano said:
Array! I thought the printer was working on the 13th... Lagta hai fir se toot gaya. Printer bhi desi nikla, mood bane to chalta hai, mood na ho to toot jaata hai.
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Ek to Printer hi Delhi made tha jo toot gaya ya hoo sakta hai tod jaan bhuj kar hi tod dala. Bachoon ki Chutian lagi hui hain aur jo Print kartey hain vo bhi chuuti ley kar Sasural gaye hue hain.
 
ginnu said:
Ek to Printer hi Delhi made tha jo toot gaya ya hoo sakta hai tod jaan bhuj kar hi tod dala. Bachoon ki Chutian lagi hui hain aur jo Print kartey hain vo bhi chuuti ley kar Sasural gaye hue hain.
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It's really sad for the people who applied directly with consulate. some of them have not even had their application scanned/granted. Sooo gaya hamara OCI department. Indian OCI is on vacation. Embassy shoots you off to Travisa. Email ka reply nahi karte. And they say we're improving... Kya hai!
 
speakamericano said:
It's really sad for the people who applied directly with consulate. some of them have not even had their application scanned/granted. Sooo gaya hamara OCI department. Indian OCI is on vacation. Embassy shoots you off to Travisa. Email ka reply nahi karte. And they say we're improving... Kya hai!
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Ek din upper se wala se zarror pucchunga ....:( kise janam ka badla ley rahoo hoo ... :(
 
bostonguy2, please read the following posts, based on the experience of a poster at Travisa SF. There is a very high probability that your FedEx envelope is still sitting in the mail room at Travisa NY.

http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?213121-OCI-San-Francisco-Tracker&p=2300008#post2300008

http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?213121-OCI-San-Francisco-Tracker&p=2300287#post2300287

http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?213121-OCI-San-Francisco-Tracker&p=2300502#post2300502
 
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