Good idea Maplegal, after we get our visa, we should get in touch and file a complaint against the passport holding. I understand we cannot quesiton the processes or the delay in processing, but passport processing. For all other documents we submitted, we didn't have to submit the original - marriage certificate, birth certifcate, photos, forms, copies of other important document supporting documents etc. We could afford to loose all these documents, as these could have been reproduced. Passport is the most important among all these, and among any other docs. Why can't they at least have a mechanism to acknowledge the receipt of passport alone? Or if they don't want that, why can't they ask to subimt copies of all pages of all passports, insted of the orginals. We all submitted our passports before quite a few months, they have been holding on these(supposedly) and we aren't even assured about it.