PIO/OCI for US Born baby

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Hello,
I have naturalized US citizen having OCI card and my wife is Indian citizen with GC. We had our first baby in Mar 2011 and planning to apply for visa traveling to India. My question is can we apply OCI for him or Should be PIO

Thanks
 
Hello,
I have naturalized US citizen having OCI card and my wife is Indian citizen with GC. We had our first baby in Mar 2011 and planning to apply for visa traveling to India. My question is can we apply OCI for him or Should be PIO

Thanks

Child is eligible for OCI and you can apply OCI for him. on OCI application Part B write your name and your wife name that you(both) are applying OCI for Child ABC and both should Sign.
 
Hello,
I have started applying for my son and now I have question on the part B 23# it says I _________do solemnly..... Here do I need to enter my son's name or my name as I am applying it for him?
in signature part under the same question it seems that both parents need to be signed and do we need to print our names underneath of it.

Under Application for minor it says I am a parent of_____ so here I need to enter my Son's name then how about the signature of first applicant. Same do I need to sign it here or thumbprint of my son.

also how do I download just the part B and print.

Please help me asap.

Thanks
Vinod
 
I just applied for my infant son alone and here is how we handled those questions:

1. We did this: "We <MY NAME> and <MY WIFE'S NAME> (Parents of <MY SON'S NAME>) do solemnly ... "
We both signed at the two spaces and wrote our names in capital letters below the respective signatures.

2. It's a stupid application form because they assume that there is always a parent applying with a minor. For this second part, we wrote our son's name in the space in the para but for the signature of first applicant, once again both myself and my wife signed that section (even though only one signature space was given). We wrote our names in capital letters below our signatures and also then below that, we also wrote in brackets "(FATHER)" and "(MOTHER)" under the applicable signatures.

3. Save the PDF of the entire completed application submission to your computer. When you want to just print Part B, open the PDF, go to File > Print and then on your print function window that pops up, just specify the relevant page numbers for Part B to be printed.
 
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Hello JP,
I need one more help from you as you have applied child individual and I am also in same boat as you. Can you list out all the supporting documents that we need to send with the application form that will help me out to put all together in one place.

Thanks
 
List of supporting docs for minor child OCI

Just letting you know that this list is based on the following background about my family: I am ethnically Indian and used to have Indian citizenship before becoming a US citizen and I have OCI now. My wife is and always was American (with no Indian heritage). So based on this, these are the docs we submitted for our minor son's OCI application.

This is the complete OCI submission package that consisted of two application sets:

1. First application set:
- completed Travisa order form [I stapled all these Travisa order form pages as 1 unit]
- Bank treasurer's check for $290 (i.e., $278 + $12) in favor of "Travisa Outsourcing"
- Envelope with 2 additional passport photos of my son (labeled the envelope with my son's name and his USANI number)
- completed OCI application in original with attached photo and son's thumbprint on Part A. My wife and I signed twice in Part B like I had mentioned earlier. [I stapled all the pages of this OCI application as 1 unit.]
- copy of my son's US passport picture/info page + endorsement/amendment pages. [I stapled all these US passport pages together as one unit.]
- copy of my US passport picture/info page + endorsement/amendment pages. [I stapled all these US passport pages together as one unit.]
- copy of my wife's US passport picture/info page + endorsement/amendment pages. [I stapled all these US passport pages together as one unit.]
- copy of my former Indian passport pages (first three pages and last two pages with my parents' names on them) [I stapled all these former Indian passport pages together as one unit.]
- copy of my son's US birth certificate (for proof of my son's relationship to me and my wife)
- second copy of my son's US birth certificate (for proof of his OCI eligibility through me)
- second copy of my former Indian passport pages (same pages as earlier and this was for proof of his OCI eligibility through me) [like before, I stapled all these former Indian passport pages together as one unit.]
- copy of my US driver's license (proof of my son's father's address).
- copy of my wife's US driver's license (proof of my son's mother's address).
- FedEx envelope with prepaid Return Label attached [I created a FedEx account online and linked that to my credit card. Then I was able to generate a Return Label online and print it out]
- copy of the above FedEx Return Label

I used a binder clip to clip all these above docs as one set in the above order.


2. Second application set:
- photocopy of the Part A page from above that already had my son's thumbprint. I then attached his photo in the appropriate space in this Part A. My wife and I signed in original twice in Part B like I had mentioned earlier. [stapled all the pages as 1 unit.]
- copy of my son's US passport picture/info page + endorsement/amendment pages. [stapled all these pages as one unit.]
- copy of my US passport picture/info page + endorsement/amendment pages. [stapled all these pages as one unit]
- copy of my wife's US passport picture/info page + endorsement/amendment pages. [stapled all these pages as one unit]
- copy of my former Indian passport pages [stapled all these pages as one unit]
- copy of my son's US birth certificate
- second copy of my son's US birth certificate
- second copy of my former Indian passport pages [stapled all these pages as one unit]
- copy of my US driver's license.
- copy of my wife's US driver's license.
- copy of the FedEx Return Label

I used a binder clip to clip all these above docs as a second (i.e., duplicate) set.

Important things to note:

1. Even though I used FedEx as my return carrier, I submitted the entire OCI package to Travisa using USPS Priority Mail with signature confirmation. Much less expensive and very efficient.
2. Make sure you attach the bar coded Travisa address label to the front of the OCI submission package envelope to Travisa. This Travisa address label gets generated when you complete their order form online.
3. Make sure you self-attest every single page of every single supporting doc. I also wrote at the top of each document what the purpose of that doc was for. e.g. On copies of my former Indian passport pages, I wrote at the top: "Copy of <MY SON'S NAME>'s father's former Indian passport for proof of OCI eligibility"
4. Make sure you get a clear imprint of your child's left thumbprint. I made several copies of Part A because it took me several attempts to get a clear thumbprint inside that box on Part A. I did this when my son was asleep because it was easiest then. Once I got a clear thumbprint for Part A, I just made a photocopy of that page for the duplicate set's Part A.
5. For anyone reading this and is in the same boat as me where my wife never held Indian citizenship or passport, I wrote a note on my wife's US passport page copies that she never held Indian citizenship or passport. This is in case they wonder why we did not submit copies of my wife's former Indian passport which, of course, never existed. I did this to try to be as clear to these people what the situation was. I also wrote this same info about my wife on the copies of my former Indian passport as well.
6. Travisa says not to staple your docs and instead use paper clips. I felt this could cause problems if the paper clips came off and the pages got shuffled and mixed up. This is why I individually stapled anything that had multiple pages as a single unit. Then I binder clipped all forms and supporting docs together to create one set of application and supporting docs. Of course, you will have to create two sets for this submission.

Hope this helps. Good luck! BTW, I just checked today and my son's OCI just got granted :)
 
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Hello JP,
You are awesome. The list is very clear to any one who is doing this for the first time. I did for my self 4 yrs back and now to do the same for my son I am getting lot of confusions. This is very clear and easy to do now. Really thanks you so much for putting all these info for dummies like me. Also congrates on your son's OCI grant. Can we have the time line like how much time it took from the day one you posted the documents till the granted status.
 
OCI timeline so far

Hello JP,
You are awesome. The list is very clear to any one who is doing this for the first time. I did for my self 4 yrs back and now to do the same for my son I am getting lot of confusions. This is very clear and easy to do now. Really thanks you so much for putting all these info for dummies like me. Also congrates on your son's OCI grant. Can we have the time line like how much time it took from the day one you posted the documents till the granted status.

Yeah, dealing with the Indian govt is nearly always a confusing affair. I really do think that Travisa makes a difference because they clearly detail what needs to be done and I followed their instructions carefully. Anyway, you're welcome and I hope others find this list helpful as well. :)

Timeline so far for my minor son's OCI application. As you can see, it progressed very quickly so far and probably would have been even quicker if Travisa had sent the OCI app to the CGI-NY earlier than waiting for a whole week:

11/3/11 : OCI app package reached Travisa
11/3/11 : OCI package opened, processed and check encashed at Travisa
11/4/11 : OCI app and docs readied for submission to CGI-NY [Travisa waited one whole week before they finally sent it to CGI-NY!]
11/11/11 : OCI app and docs sent to CGI-NY and acknowledged by CGI-NY
11/14/11: Photo/signature scanned
11/15/11: OCI granted
11/15/11: OCI docs printed

Now I'm waiting is for the OCI docs to be sent to CGI-NY from Delhi. Almost there.
 
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