Posted on: 04-10-11 10:40:46
Thank you Kulb and Sant ji,
As advised, i sent an email to the Indian consulate general. The CGI assured me that if i have the OCI card and the Cancelled stamp, no further action is required from my part.
Moral of the story: The VFS call centre staff are not always well informed. Do call/email the Consulate to get the correct picture.
Best wishes,
Sri.
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Originally posted by AjaxDesi
Thank you Kulb and Sant ji,
As advised, i sent an email to the Indian consulate general. The CGI assured me that if i have the OCI card and the Cancelled stamp, no further action is required from my part.
Moral of the story: The VFS call centre staff are not always well informed. Do call/email the Consulate to get the correct picture.
Best wishes,
Sri.
That is good news. Which email address did you send your query to? I emailed them one time about an OCI question to their oci email but did not get a response..
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Originally posted by AjaxDesi
Thank you Kulb and Sant ji,
As advised, i sent an email to the Indian consulate general. The CGI assured me that if i have the OCI card and the Cancelled stamp, no further action is required from my part.
Moral of the story: The VFS call centre staff are not always well informed. Do call/email the Consulate to get the correct picture.
Best wishes,
Sri.
Nice to know that email worked for you as well
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My case is as follows:
1) I got my Canadian citizenship way back in 2007 and the OCI in the same year. My Indian passport has the 'CANCELLED' stamp on it. By all accounts, i should not have anything to do with the surrender certificate.
But, when i contacted the VFS staff, they want me to pay 260$ as a part of penalty and get the surrender certificate. what a load of horse manure!
Just out of curiosity .... since you already had cancelled your passport and already had on OCI, what was the need to call VFS.
puttoo: i did not want to walk to CGI after 50 to find out that i should have taken a surrender certificate way back in 2010. It was important to confirm .
AFTERMATH...Inspite of the email assurance by CGI, Toronto yesterday. The VFS help desk sent me a fresh mail TODAY as below:
{
Dear *****,
Thank you for responding.
We would like to inform that you do not require to pay the penalty of CAD $240. However, you are require to pay CAD $41.75, which includes CAD $20 as surrender fees and CAD $21.75 as VFS service charges.
Kindly let us know in case we can be of further assistance.
Your's Sincerely,
Nitish Walia
VFS Toronto Help Desk
}
I am speechless!! .
mr. Puttoo, Can you see now why you can never be sure when dealing with Indian consulate issues?
regards
Sri.
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Originally posted by AjaxDesi
puttoo: i did not want to walk to CGI after 50 to find out that i should have taken a surrender certificate way back in 2010. It was important to confirm
AFTERMATH...Inspite of the email assurance by CGI, Toronto yesterday. The VFS help desk sent me a fresh mail TODAY as below:
{
Dear *****,
Thank you for responding.
We would like to inform that you do not require to pay the penalty of CAD $240. However, you are require to pay CAD $41.75, which includes CAD $20 as surrender fees and CAD $21.75 as VFS service charges.
Kindly let us know in case we can be of further assistance.
Your's Sincerely,
Nitish Walia
VFS Toronto Help Desk
}
I am speechless!! .
mr. Puttoo, Can you see now why you can never be sure when dealing with Indian consulate issues?
regards
Sri.
In your case u do not need to take any action. My situation is also like yours. I visited Ottawa office and confirmed that I do not need any surrender certificate.
If you ask many people, u will get different reply.
