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I received my OCI today. End of the long immigration process. It has been an amazing journey and it tested my patience all the time. All the best to everyone.

No need to upload the employment letter.

The surrender process should be near to closure. You may expect the process to complete by early next week.

It seems wierd. You should have good progress on surrender process, near to closure. When did you apply?

Based on the recent discussion on the forum, it seems you have to get the marriage certificate authenticated from ODS and CGI.

I would suggest to go for walk-in services to BLS. You could easily avoid the confusion around the number of drafts and the draft amount. You could pay the fee and service amounts with your debit card for the surrender application. You could surrender an expired passport as well. There is no...

I still believe you could get the appointment for the attestation service in CGI Toronto. Please send an email to CGI for appointment.

In-person with an appointment. There were only few applicants and I am not sure if they allow walk-in.

Yes, I submitted my OCI application and it is under processing. I did not have the marriage certificate but I did the CGI and ODS authentication of custody document issued in Canada.

No, it is not required.

I did the CGI authentication in the month of August. It was probably last week of August. I took the appointment. It might have changed now.

I did the authentication of the custody document and civil document from ODS/Australian Embassy and CGI. It is straightforward process if you could get the appointments but definitely a time consuming process. It took time to figure out the steps to follow. I had to search online for detail...

@snehagupta12us was following up on whether the marriage certificate needs to be authenticated from CGI Toronto. But personally I think that you have to get it authenticated by ODS and CGI. Even the custody document has to be authenticated from ODS and CGI.

Are you looking for the process to authenticate the civil document issued in Canada ? I have experienced authentication of civil documents issued in Canada as well as other country.

Yes, it shows the tracking number. And you receive text messages from Purolator.

It shows the status as Dispatched via Courier for my surrender application

I went to BLS Toronto at 6:50 am and I was 3rd in the walk-in queue. I got the chance to enter at around 9:30 am

Same status for me as well.

An acknowledgement document which points out that the draft has been submitted along with the draft amount and also BLS check marks the Landing paper item in list of original documents submitted in the same acknowledgement document.

I don't think you need to send any original documents along with the postal application except the Indian passport. If you are going for in-person application in BLS Toronto, I have noticed that BLS is requesting original COPR for few applicants. I am not sure on what criteria, BLS decides to...