Go ahead and fill the online form with just your wife's and your kids' information only. Even though the info fields for you (i.e. spouse of your wife) appears to be mandatory on the online application, it is not. Think of it this way, fill in the appropriate details of ONLY the people who are applying for OCI. When you submit the online application, it will accept the submission without your details.
My advice for you is to re-apply online with a fresh application with just your wife's and kids' info. Remember that even if you do not submit your printed page of info with the online application your wife just did, the application ID in their databases will have recorded that you also had your info in the original OCI application submission. Who knows whether it will trigger a flag on their end thinking that the OCI submission was incomplete because your documents were not included with this OCI submission. I seriously would suggest you re-do this because like I said, you can submit a family-based OCI application without one of the parents. How do I know? I did it with just myself and one of my sons and without my wife.
For that question in Part B, you should answer yes and include the info regarding your OCI application and details.
Your daughter's date of naturalization is the same date that you naturalized. On the day you became a US citizen, she also did because she was a minor and got citizenship through derived naturalization.
Thank you very much!!!
I was naturalized over 5 years back and had my Indian passport canceled at that time. However, my daughter applied and got her US passport in September, 2011 (around 2-3 months back). It's very weird that they are adding a penalty in this scenario. How about mentioning her US passport issue date as her naturalization date?
Thanks!
Looks like it's going to be $75 extra. So, why make a fuss about it. I will pay the penalty. Thank you again!
How did you get the $75 figure? Did you contact Travisa and ask them about this?
I spoke to Travisa afterwards and was told that I will have to pay the $250 penalty based on my naturalization date. When I argued, she said that I need to apply for my daughter's separate naturalization certificate (if I don't want to pay the penalty) OR else I can send the application with a $175 check (I think that's what they typically charge as renunciation fee for folks that got naturalized after June/2010) and let the Consulate to decide about the actual fee. So decided not to delay the process by paying the penalty (we will end up spending more and energy if we apply for her separate naturalization certificate). $75 is the difference amount between the penalty of $250 and the normal renunciation fee of $175.
Hang on, I think the penalty of $250 is in addition to the renunciation fee of $175. You better double check this because I think they want $425 in total for your daughter's renunciation and penalty.
Oh ok so you're really paying $270 ($20 fee+ $250 penalty) to renounce your daughter's Indian passport/citizenship and are paying $95 more. Here's an interesting thought ... You should be able to claim your daughter derived citizenship through your wife's recent naturalization (instead of yours). Using that more recent date, no penalties apply and she just pays the regular $175 fees.