OCI process

[eas2lv]

I made a table of recent Toronto/Brampton applications collected from posts here.. Pls suggest corrections/updates. The application date for postal ones are estimates of when BLS might have processed them for consistency with in-person ones. Apologies for any typos of user handles etc.

Name	Applied	Ack-ed	Processed	Received
Info22	11 Aug	24 Aug	5 Oct
rocky_143_20	25 Aug	8 Sep	28 Sep
Jatt_Warrior	25 Aug	8 Sep	29 Sep	5 Oct
nikshit	30 Aug	13 Sep	4 Oct
ashwsh4	31 Aug	13 Sep	5 Oct
kurtrules		13 Sep	5 Oct
Mazallstar	1 Sep	14 Sep	5 Oct
singh_maninder	`	14 Sep	5 Oct
ZIWISHCan	7 Sep	21 Sep
rizingphoenix	8 Sep	19 Sep
fshalk	15 Sep	28 Sep
Amandeep62	18 Sep	3 Oct
vipinalt	21 Sep	4 Oct
tarun110	22 Sep	5 Oct
RedWhiteRed	22 Sep	6 Oct
ranjeeth87	23 Sep	6 Oct
Retruitious	23 Sep
somak2001	25 Sep
Terminator	28 Sep
eas2lv	4 Oct

 

[Ninisha]

Hi everyone,
Applied for surrender certificate in Brampton and the status shows as "Ready to dispatch" from 5th October. But they didn't sending it. Calls are not being picked up. No replies for email. We have travel plans in January and need to apply OCI as soon as possible. Anyone else faced this situation ?

We sent through Canada post .The return envelopes we have provided Xpresspost envelope. Is it also the reason for our delay ?

 

[aghuman]

Hi everyone,
Applied for surrender certificate in Brampton and the status shows as "Ready to dispatch" from 5th October. But they didn't sending it. Calls are not being picked up. No replies for email. We have travel plans in January and need to apply OCI as soon as possible. Anyone else faced this situation ?

We sent through Canada post . Is it also the reason for our delay ?

When did u applied

 

[softwaretesting]

Hi everyone,
Applied for surrender certificate in Brampton and the status shows as "Ready to dispatch" from 5th October. But they didn't sending it. Calls are not being picked up. No replies for email. We have travel plans in January and need to apply OCI as soon as possible. Anyone else faced this situation ?

We sent through Canada post . Is it also the reason for our delay ?

Have you tried tracking on puralator website using application reference number?

 

[Ninisha]

Congrats Good to see OCI completion for Ottawa.

Now time for @sasharma25 @rizwan23arif @myindia @VimalSagar to see progress but there is a two week gap between @samdevban
date of acknowledgement and for other 4 in Ottawa.

Hope someone in between shares there timeline too

Name	Date of Acknowledgement	OCI received date	Total processing time
@truthbetold	21-JUL-2023	03-Oct-2023	10 weeks 4 days
@samdevban	1-AUG-2023	05-Oct-2023	9 weeks 2 days
@sasharma25	16-AUG-2023
@rizwan23arif	16-AUG-2023
@myindia	17-AUG-2023
@VimalSagar	18-AUG-2023
@Shinda545	22-AUG-2023
@bulls23	23-AUG-2023
@forw.jane	1-SEP-2023
@ankurbhatia17	28-SEP-2023

Any tracker like this for Toronto jurisdiction ?

 

[Ninisha]

When did u applied

It reached BLS on September 13th.

 

[Ninisha]

Have you tried tracking on puralator website using application reference number?

We sent through Canada post. No tracking shows up in Canada post now.

 

[Ninisha]

I am filling up my OCI application for me and my spouse. We became canadian citizens last month. My kids (born in USA and Canada) hold OCI cards.
1. For self basis application, do we need to upload marriage certificate ?
2. For acquisition of canadian citizen, in the form , is it naturalization ?
3. Do we need to upload relationship certificate ? (I tried uploading birth certificate. But previous posts says it is not needed. Just confirming)
4. In Part B form, Have you/any member of your family applied for Overseas Citizen of India registration earlier? - Do i need to enter my kids details as they hold OCI ?

 

[eas2lv]

Any tracker like this for Toronto jurisdiction ?

I made a table but its awaiting moderator approval -- probably because of the size of the post or I'm new here? Here is a link to the table. It may have errors as its quickly put together based on posts here.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSw0K_bUGvWjN0uF4Ecqzi8UPVDQwjHCwQHMgkuUpBRcJo-CQa9IUYjY4DGqdQ6zmC3bP0D__lImeKb/pubhtml

 

[softwaretesting]

We sent through Canada post. No tracking shows up in Canada post now.

I am not sure if they return back using Canada Post. I suggest you to check on Puralator as well.

 

[Ninisha]

I am not sure if they return back using Canada Post. I suggest you to check on Puralator as well.

We sent the return envelope like we do in purolator. We asked BLS before sending as well. They said we can use Canada post too.

 

[PratikD]

FRRO is not easy to work with. simple paper processing can take months..hopefully u dont get stuck there.

Yeah, I agree. I got in touch with someone who applied OCI in India through FRRO. Took them over 1 year to process.

 

[PratikD]

Couple of years back I had read an experience where it took 3 months in surrender of Indian Passport & getting exit permit. Hopefully it does not take that long now.

Hopefully!!

 

[GS gill]

Same as mine
Vancouver mission
Same dates and processed in 7th Oct

Did your got printed or not?

 

[abbas.pasha]

I am filling up my OCI application for me and my spouse. We became canadian citizens last month. My kids (born in USA and Canada) hold OCI cards.
1. For self basis application, do we need to upload marriage certificate ?
2. For acquisition of canadian citizen, in the form , is it naturalization ?
3. Do we need to upload relationship certificate ? (I tried uploading birth certificate. But previous posts says it is not needed. Just confirming)
4. In Part B form, Have you/any member of your family applied for Overseas Citizen of India registration earlier? - Do i need to enter my kids details as they hold OCI ?

Try and follow this: https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/oci-process.254662/post-10335797
- If your spouse name is on the Indian passport only in that case you need marriage certificate
- Yes Naturalization is correct
- If you are selecting, Relationship with the Root Indian SELF then your Indian passport is enough
- Just mention immediate family members