Hi
I'm currently an Indian Citizen but will be sworn in as a US citizen on Friday, 2/20/09. As I have to speak at a conference in India on 2/27/09, I have to run to the US passport office on Monday, 2/23/09 for a same day passport! Thereafter I have to get an Indian Visa to travel to Inidia on 2/27/09! How ironic this all is-to get a visa to visit the country where I was a citizen less than a week prior!
Does anyone know if I have to renounce my Indian Passport BEFORE I apply for an Indian visa? I think I would have to give my Indian Passport up at the consulate, get a renunciation certificate from them and then go for an Indian Visa to the company they have outsourced visas to here in NYC.
Anyone with any experience doing this?
Thanks so much in advance,
docrck
I'm currently an Indian Citizen but will be sworn in as a US citizen on Friday, 2/20/09. As I have to speak at a conference in India on 2/27/09, I have to run to the US passport office on Monday, 2/23/09 for a same day passport! Thereafter I have to get an Indian Visa to travel to Inidia on 2/27/09! How ironic this all is-to get a visa to visit the country where I was a citizen less than a week prior!
Does anyone know if I have to renounce my Indian Passport BEFORE I apply for an Indian visa? I think I would have to give my Indian Passport up at the consulate, get a renunciation certificate from them and then go for an Indian Visa to the company they have outsourced visas to here in NYC.
Anyone with any experience doing this?
Thanks so much in advance,
docrck