I applied for my OCI card on November 20, 2014 through Cox and Kings in Chicago, IL. Cox and Kings submitted my paperwork to the consulate in Chicago only on December 12, 2014. Till today January 21, 2015, 2 months have passed, and I have not yet received the card. I wanted to visit my mother in Goa, India as she has cancer and has been really unwell. How much longer is this process going to take? Would really appreciate if the process and timing of the process is looked into. Thank you.

Every time I go to embassy, I am in fear what will I be asked to produce....... Irrespective of what is written on the site, there are always something extra asked for. Also why do we need to produce tons of attestation on every document, We are outside India that means all our documents are legal and well scrutinised, I wish this process could get smoother and better, This is great burden for NRI's

Please make OCI U-visa transfer process easier. Why we submitting 50 documents for simple process? Also the check list are not clear enough and that causes frequent trips to the consulate. Please do something about it, That would be a great service to us all NRIs.

People who have been living here from past 5-6 years are still struggling to get Bands required to apply for work visa or PR . For govt it is a way of making easy money , keep failing the candidates so that they reapply for IELTS exam again and again by paying a fees of $ 250-$350 per exam. This is becoming a very big and frustrating problems for Indians who have been working so hard to get a work visa or PR and at the last stage of achieving their dream they end up giving useless exams

Hi Dear Mr Prime Minister , i just want to bring to your notice that we have been living in country like Australia which is offering huge oppurtunities for living and working to all the Indians. Apart from this, there is a also a bitter truth , In order to get Permanent residency , work visa Every body has to clear or show IELTS , at the level of entrying into Australia it is justifiable, but for residency pupose , Sponsorship purpose , it is useless and way of making easy money

Our country is not ready to send all people to western industrialized countries with "visa on arrival". We need to build strong tracking system to know about our own citizens in details (like west), eliminate frauds and corruptions. There were many incidents US visa officials declines visa because of false signatures, false educational certificates, false bank statements and property documents. If these frauds travel overseas and caught there, there will be a visa ban on all Indians that includ

Yes. I have been to Chennai and Kolkata consulates. I observed that Indians recruited by the US consulate working as security guards, paper handling clerks, they are rude with fellow Indians came for the visa interview. They forget, that these visa interviewees do not go to the consulates to work as security guards and paper checking clerks. USA, UK, Australia etc., waiting to welcome NRIs and tourists. On the contrary, when you reach to the main interview with the visa officers they treat you w

The kind of frustation and embarassment one has to suffer at the hands of visa officials at the us consulate in India is very hurting. Indians are treated as strangers in their own country with utter decadence. Atleast US tourist Visa regulations should be identical for both US and INDIA. I have seen grandparents denied visa to see their first born grandchild, coupkes rejected visa after marriage for honeymoon. Tourist visa regulation should be similar for americans and indians.

I recommend indian to revise visa regulations for international travel among us and india. India should be exempted from visa approval before travel and allowed the flexibility of evisa same as the us citizens enjoy when they travel. Or india should change the visa regulation for us citizens who travel to india to approval before india. If india and is are involved in mutual coalition for development then their individual citizens should also be treated equally. The kind of frustation one has to

Suggesting the following steps. Please increase the tax slab rate to 5 lacs. This will ensure major population will get benefited and shall feel ache din has started. Govt should create a fund called 'PRICE STABILIZATION FUND' and incentives attached to it. People who fall in the income group 5 - 6.5 lacs should be asked to deposit 12K a year to this fund to ensure NO TAX on their salary. In other words they will either pay 10% of the tax amount or contribute 12K to this fund. Like wise 6.5- 10L - 24K and 50K for people more than 10L salary income. This will generate lot of fund for govt to control inflation. DO AWAY with all other deduction like 80C, 80CC etc.