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Advisory: OCI Services outsourced
The Embassy of India has decided to outsource the handling of OCI applications to M/s. Travisa Outsourcing. The outsourcing arrangement in respect of the area falling under the consular jurisdiction of the Embassy of India, Washington DC (The Jurisdiction of Embassy of India, Washington D.C. is Bermuda, Delaware, District of Columbia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.) will come into effect on 11th January, 2011.
M/s Travisa Outsourcing will receive OCI applications with effect from 11th January, 2011. All applications received by Travisa Outsourcing will be acknowledged to the applicants by the next working day. For detailed guidelines on submitting the applications, documentation requirements and fee etc., kindly visit the following link:
https://indiavisa.travisaoutsourcing.com/oci/homepage
The outsourcing arrangement will not affect the applicants whose applications are already under process. Such applicants will continue to deal directly with the Embassy of India including submission of additional documents and passports. However, the applicants whose applications have been returned by the Embassy on account of any deficiency will have to resubmit the application to M/s Travisa (and not to the Embassy of India) after addressing the deficiencies.
The outsourcing arrangement in respect of the areas falling under the consular jurisdictions of the Indian Consulates in New York, San Francisco, Houston and Chicago will come into effect subsequently for which the exact schedule will be notified by them separately.
Announcement
It is hereby notified that on account of requirement for adjustment, the consular fee for all the consular/miscellaneous applications submitted to Travisa Outsourcing offices in Washington DC, New York, Houston, San Francisco and Chicago would stand increased by $ 3 in each case with effect from 18 April 2011. Any application completed online on or after 18 April will be processed at the adjusted rates.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
The OCI Cards for all applications received and processed by the Embassy till December 2010 are ready for issue.
PLEASE SEND YOUR ORIGINAL USA PASSPORT/S ALONG WITH OCI FILE NO TO THE EMBASSY
(OCI Wing,
EMBASSY OF INDIA,
2536 MASSACHUSETTS AVE NW,
WASHINGTON DC 20008. ) We cannot issue the OCI Card without pasting the Visa sticker on the applicants US passport.
· OCI cards will be issued by the Embassy of India to all OCI applicants whose applications have already been processed by us. You can check the status of OCI application online by clicking: Check OCI Status Online
· After seeing the online status : Documents Received at Washington on -------- (date will be shown), send your Original US Passport for OCI stamping. Please quote your "OCI File No." while sending the US passport. It will take about 7 working days for us to return your US passport, along with U visa and OCI card through UPS mail. Please send your US passport to
OCI Wing,
Embassy of India,
2536 Massachusetts Avenue, NW,
Washington DC 20008.
We recommend you to use Fedex or UPS mail only
Please send an email for all queries pertaining to OCI applications already processed by us.
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