Hi, my Husband and I are applying to adopt a child from India, and our agency recommended to apply for a PIO card or OCI card (ideally) to help speed up our application. My Husband was born in Canada, but both of his Parents were born in India and are now Canadian Citizens.

We have tried to apply for OCI 4 times, and gave up because we got the run around with VFS Brampton; so we are moving on to PIO and applying with VFS Toronto, and hoping it will be a little easier.

Since my Mother-in-Law's has her maiden name on their older documents, and married name on the recent docs, (we can't find their marriage certificate) they didn't care about her ID, and just wanted my Father in Law's. I think we have everything they need for PIO: FIL's Canadian passport, original Indian passport, Cert of Cdn Citizenship, even his PIO card just in case to prove Indian Origin. We don't have his Permanent Resident Card bc he is now a Cdn Citizen, and VFS also needed his landing papers. We just found an original IMM1000 Immigration Card stapled in his final Indian Passport, showing that he was a landed immigrant (They came to Canada in 1968). It's not a full sheet of paper, looks like a stub detached from the rest of the form, that they stapled in his passport when he arrived in Canada.

Just praying if this would be what VFS is looking for and that I don't need to order a certified copy from Immigration Canada & wait 6 months; has anyone used this as proof and this has been sufficient?