OCI process
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Indian immigration may or may not ask this but at the Check In counters here at the airports in Canada they will ask you for the return ticket for the minor since he/she has a visa and not an OCI.
Why would they do that, because airlines are liable to ferry the passenger back to their origin in case destination immigration denies entry.
This may happen on a case to case basis, so why take a chance for a few hundred dollars, get a ticket which has pretty late return date(keep the return ticket with Latitude fare class or similar (which is fully refundable)
A question to you… Will you visit e.g. Switzerland/US etc. without a return/onward journey ticket ?
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our is express service, so that is eligible for saturday only not on sundays. But it depends on workload as well. Best is to keep monitoring updates on purolator website.
My BLS tracking status shows the shipping data, and Purolator shows the destination city to be that of my friend's address. So I think the phone request to change shipping address worked.
Vancouver Jurisdiction: Minor application
Postal date: Dec 19
BLS Acknowledged: Dec 26 (Under process)
DOA on OCI: Jan 6
Since then it's under process and no update yet. It looks like Vancouver jurisdiction is pretty slow for OCI processing.
Travelling in June so hopefully till that time we can get our child's OCI Lol.
Postal date: Dec 19
BLS Acknowledged: Dec 26 (Under process)
DOA on OCI: Jan 6
Since then it's under process and no update yet. It looks like Vancouver jurisdiction is pretty slow for OCI processing.
Travelling in June so hopefully till that time we can get our child's OCI Lol.
Yeah - Vancouver is slow, I got mine processed (Feb 13) in a little over 2 months after DOA on OCI (Dec 6), so June is definite - you will get the OCI
OCI you can apply only after living in India for 6 months. If you want to apply OCI in India, you will need entry visa.
There is currently no experience shared about OCI process from India in this forum, so timeline is not known.
Anyone here with walkin application submission date jan 12th or close by? Just curious to know whats the status of the application for others. Mine's still showing "under-process"
My daughter's (minor) application got returned because she did Thumb impression instead of Signatures on Main application (signature upload) and Declaration (3rd page). I am surprised because OCI website https://ociservices.gov.in/ clearly states below:
Now, we need to redo the application, pay the courier (send and return).
Not sure if anyone faced the same. If not, may be this is a new rule. Future applicants (minors) please take note. May be call BLS to confirm.
- A person who has not attained the age of 18 years is considered as minor. In case of minor who cannot sign, his/her left thumb impression may be placed in the signature box. Parents should not sign on the behalf of the children.
Now, we need to redo the application, pay the courier (send and return).
Not sure if anyone faced the same. If not, may be this is a new rule. Future applicants (minors) please take note. May be call BLS to confirm.
Probably they go with Indian passport, if your daughters Indian passport had signature then they would prefer signature on application also as told by bls agent once.