these johnies pass a high competence test do they have patience and psycho capabilities to deal with problems of NRIs as they are themselves the problem. In one case the dead body was waiting for days in USA b 4 taking away to India. why cannot a productivity study be done on the work being done by them each day. How much budsiness they brought how NRI meetings held to understand the problems etc. no public contact may be parties. when one has to pay a fee cant they collect it by credit card

Nobody gets visa in 10 days. In onw case we knowthe NRI was made to stand in front of c ckgs office for hours in pain and agony application by mail, no reply in 10 days. replies contradictory. there is no senior office who looks into delays and complaints. Probably some kind of backseat driving is done from Delhi and no one answers calls from CGHS famous numbers where wait time is 5 hours plus when you call ckgs on 5162061483 and 6465890088 make a call. it will say they are busybusy

charge a heavy penalty if the passports were used by some NRIs. Instead of this the procedure is too much of a mess and only country which has this kind of nerve breaking useless procedure is India. Another problem is if the NRI cannot return to India, how will he invest in stocks and villages etc. no kind of longsights for these procedure babus.

Passport is very simple to use. (0 % of them do not get renunciation and when they send the passports, they should wait until it comes. Also the best method to avoid misuse of passports after an NRI gets another country passport, once they surrender, deface them in the consul office and destroy so that it cannot be used. These are simple methods and NRIs will welcome this. Also fix fee of $50 for surrender of passports which have not been used after acquiring another country citizenship and

dcision Please introduce a one page form and nothing more to get this done. Also this can be done by walk in NRIs giving particulars needed and walk out with the renouncement stamp. it is easy. 90 percent of the NRIs once they get USA passport do not need to use India passports because USA passports get visa everywhere. and respected. Now you have introduced the e visa and visa at airport . great. NRIs are grateful. Your chancel staff may not be happy as they want people to come and stand in

Dear PM a lot of things have improved with your dynamism. But the embassies and consuls in USA are a retrograde stuff. they are bringing inefficiencies from India to the emasssy work here. Examples 1. the so called renunciation of passport is a humbug, one has to fill up a lot of forms and send lot of emails and send lot of fedexes to the consul to get it done. Unless this is done no work of NRI gets done in the consul office. As you have introduced a system of one page data for any decisi

NRI's welcome FDI but any protections for their investments?. Recently some of the NRI's filed a case against ICICI GROUP COMPANY - ICICI venture in Mauritius Supreme Court and SEBEI - fund launched in year 2005 and after 9 years out of 13 projects 1 project completed ? like that so may funds launched by them. How can govt will boost the confidence of NRI's ?. Can govt take action against such Banks? Recently 3i InfoTech defaulted in paying interest on Bonds also.

Many Indians residing in the Gulf , I am sure would like to invest their savings in small businesses in India. Most of them are just keeping their savings in the bank as they have no assistance in making investments in India. Investments encourage growth of the country and jobs to the needy in India. Seminars and forums by the Govt. of India must be held in these countries to encourange investments and also proivide the information on investing in India to the NRI's.

Active communication link via Email/SMS to Indian embassy can be very helpful. In emergency, this type of communication can be useful for Embassy to reach out to large number of people quickly. Also, sending out greetings by Indian embassy on Diwali, Dusshera, Independence day, republic day and other festivals can help people feel connected with India in foreign land and we can feel positive that Indian government cares for us. Thanks.

More involvement of American insurance companies will not at all benefit Indians but it will benefit them actually. Come to US and see how these companies are exploiting people here in US, the same they will do in India. We need to strengthen indian insurance companies as there policies are much more people friendly. Health insurance in US is the biggest fraud on this earth, huge exploitation and hardly any benefit. People don't have choices and freedom for there treatment.