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12 days for receipt - can happen!

It happened to me too. I mailed my documents to Indian Embassy in DC. Unfortunately, the postoffice delivered it to British Embassy (had paid for delivery confirmation fortunately). British embassy rejected the following day and it went back to some postoffice in DC. My mail was just sitting there for the next 10 days (opened a case and stuff) and finally it was delivered to Indian embassy two weeks after I mailed it. Wouldn't be surprised if the same thing happened to you too.
 
Check my timeline in signature. My registration was granted & printed.

Update: documents dispatched 6/19/2008.
 
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My OCI application, finally acknowledged...

I send them an email query on 6/16 and they asked me to check back in a week. I sent them another email on 6/23 and they indicated that everything is ok and my status will show up in a day or two.

And my status was updated an hour after their email to me... with an ACK date of 6/24 (interesting!).

see details below...
 
Must have been a sigh of relief SriniB :) and atleast they do get back when you write an email. About the Ack date, they may be working at IST and therefore many hours ahead (just a theory). Good luck with the OCI process.
 
OCI - Status

They are pretty fast. When you have waited for 10 years or more to get US Citizenship, one or two months of OCI processing is fast.

http://ociindia.nic.in/ociindia/OnlineOCIenquiry.jsp

Date Of Acknowledgment 22-MAY-2008

Application Status:
Registration Status Granted On 20-JUN-2008
Photo/Signature Scanned On 03-JUN-2008
Documents Printing Status PRINTED
Documents Printed On 23-JUN-2008
Documents Despatched From Delhi On <NOT DISPATCHED>
Documents Received at WASHINGTON
 
It was definitely a relief (and yes, I can wait a month or two).

I never thought I would say this, but Indian Embassy seems to be ahead of the INS at least with providing status of a case promptly! :D
 
Application Status:

Applied on line 06/10/2008
Mailed application to Washington DC 06/23/2008
Registration Status Granted On ?
Photo/Signature Scanned On ?
Documents Printing Status ?
Documents Printed On ?
Documents Despatched From Delhi On ?
Documents Received at WASHINGTON ?


BTW, found an interesting tutorial on how to get your own passport size photographs.

http://www.dpchallenge.com/tutorial.php?TUTORIAL_ID=22
 
Passport photos

gotmycz said:
Application Status:

Applied on line 06/10/2008
Mailed application to Washington DC 06/23/2008
Registration Status Granted On ?
Photo/Signature Scanned On ?
Documents Printing Status ?
Documents Printed On ?
Documents Despatched From Delhi On ?
Documents Received at WASHINGTON ?


BTW, found an interesting tutorial on how to get your own passport size photographs.

http://www.dpchallenge.com/tutorial.php?TUTORIAL_ID=22
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Re. 'free' passport photos, there is also this: http://www.epassportphoto.com/
 
sriabap said:
Received my documents today (6/28) at Embassy. Will mail the passports and envelope on Monday.
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That is a remarkable turnaround, congratulations. I am not sure if the process is same for everyone as I had sent the N-400 on 5/27, it was acknowledged on 6/10 but there has not been any moment since then. Does anyone know if sending an email helps? May be the information is not being updated consistenly on the OCI Online Enquiry Form site?
 
Contact embassy if there is no activity on your application

Contact embassy if there is no activity on your application.

You should have seen application status updates as below with five different dates as they are processed:

Date Of Acknowledgment 22-MAY-2008

Application Status
Registration Status Granted On 20-JUN-2008
Photo/Signature Scanned On 03-JUN-2008
Documents Printing Status PRINTED
Documents Printed On 23-JUN-2008
Documents Despatched From Delhi On 25-JUN-2008
Documents Received at WASHINGTON <<NOT YET>>
 
Some updates to my OCI Application:

Mailed to Washington DC on: May 27th, 2008
Date Of Acknowledgment: June 10th, 2008
Photo/Signature Scanned:-- July 3rd, 2008
Registration Status Granted:--
Documents Printed:--
 
Koolvik7 - Finally, some movement. That took about 25 days (twice as long).

The website says that they will process OCI applications within 30 days of ack. You may want to follow-up via email after the 10th...
 
Thanks SriniB.

Looking at ealier stats, I was not expecting any movement for the next 15 days after the Photo/Signature was scanned. However, I was pleasantly surprised with the following update:

Mailed to Washington DC on: May 27th, 2008
Date Of Acknowledgment: June 10th, 2008
Photo/Signature Scanned:-- July 3rd, 2008
Registration Status Granted:-- July 9th, 2008
Documents Printed:--
 
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Good for you... Per the promise, they took less than 30 days.

I have not seen any movement on my case... however, I am encouraged by the timeliness of your case.
 
Moving on........ nicely.

Mailed to Washington DC on: May 27th, 2008
Date Of Acknowledgment: June 10th, 2008
Photo/Signature Scanned:July 3rd, 2008
Registration Status Granted: July 9th, 2008
Documents Printed: July 9th, 2008
Documents Despatched From Delhi On: NOT DISPATCHED
Documents Received at WASHINGTON: NOT YET
 
Journey over folks. Received my documents back from DC. Please see signature below.

Please note, I never sent any self-addressed envelopes till the docs were received at embassy. Even then, I just sent priority mail with delivery confirmation. Thought I would let you all know and save some money.
 
koolvik7 said:
Congrats and thanks for the post.... < 2 months as per the trend.
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Yes, the process has become quite a bit faster from just a few months ago. We applied in Dec. 2007 thru SFO and got it done in exactly 3 months. The breakup of where the time was spent then and now (sriabap's time line) is very interesting, though:

Mail apps to Ack: 64 days vs 4 days.
Ack to dispatch from Delhi: 5 days vs 33 days.
Dispatch to Receipt of OCI docs in hand: 22 days vs 20 days.
 
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