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Yeah, sorry to hear your plight with BLS. To my surprise they were very nice and cooperated well. But they charge so many fees, they even charged courier fee that I saw later when I came out. Man, it's just $$ making scheme.

Submitted my OCI and Surrender together at Surrey BLS with Walk-In. They say Surrender wiil take 2 weeks and OCI will take 5 weeks.

I am thinking of writing a letter myself stating that I work in XYZ company at ABC position and sign it myself. And I am going to provide my paystub along with the letter. I have not uploaded anything except my Indian Passport.

Would a paystub work? Or I can write a letter that I work at XYZ at ABC position and also provide the details of the employer like address, phone email etc.? Thanks in advance for your help.

For OCI what do we submit as Professional Details of the applicant? Do I write a letter stating my employment details? Or job offer letter?

You find this info from consulate website?

this is great, but I am based out of Vancouver. I wish they do the same here. People want to avoid BLS at all cost. :-) hahaha....

Ok, I guess I will ask them to take my picture there itself at the high-fi BLS photo studio ... :-) hahaha...

Does printing self photo works for OCI application? I got it printed on 80lbs glossy paper but still feels like matt finish and a little grainy. Has someone printed their photos for OCI from staples and still got accepted?

I went to the Surrey office with my tickets, they checked it twice in detail and returned the ticket back to me.

I uploaded my indian passport as my proof of indian roots but I didn't clicked finished and existed the window. Now, how to I access that same website? When I go through the OCI website with temporary ID, it says that I should you my File Reference No. So, I am not sure if the document was...

In the part B of OCI, do we have to upload the documents or anyone would suffice?

The check list in the Vancouver jurisdiction says to submit a copy of surrender certificate but as you and others have said that we can submit OCI and surrender certificate together. Thats why a confusion.

When will be getting your passport ETA?

I guess it's varying from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Check with yours.

What did you ending up doing? I don't know I am going to apply both at the same time. I have filled out both the forms just waiting for my Canadian Passport and after my travle to the US I will go to BLS and both. I don't know if they will accept it or not. I will share my experience here on...

So for how much do we have to prepare the cashiers check for OCI for a single person when dropping off and picking up? The BLS website says $345 + $7.5 + Courier fee. This doesn't help in knowing for how much do I need to get that check made for? People please guide.

Hey, I am reading few contradicting things here: Can we do the OCI and Surrender application simultaneously in BLS Surrey/Vancouver?The check list for OCI says to submit the copy of surrender certificate, how would it work?

Hello, I know this might have been discussed in other thread but the information is so much scattered that following the thread with 350+ pages to find relevant information becomes very difficult. Can we apply for OCI and surrender certificate together? Or we need to surrender the...

So, I went to the passport office and showed my tickets and conference paid invoice for travel on March 8th. They allowed me to enter the office. I successfully submitted the application. For urgent application it was $270.