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Shall I renew Indian Passport?
Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 11:13 pm
by ra_one_2011
Hello,
I am planning to apply for my son's Naturalisation registration next week but my son's indian passport is expiring in July. Shall I renew his passport first and then apply for his MN1 registration or apply it just now and surrender his passport as soon as I get his british passport? Is there any time limit/ expiry condition on surrendering indian passport?
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 8:12 pm
by ra_one_2011
any reply please?
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 8:18 pm
by nnj10
AFAIK, there is no time limit on surrender of Indian passport after acquiring British passport, although there is a penalty for using Indian passport for entry to India, three months after acquiring foreign nationality.
Look through MN timelines on the forum and if you think your son's application will be approved by July then you can skip renewing his passport and apply for surrender as soon as he gets his British passport.
Surrender application by post takes no more than 10 days in my experience.
My understanding is that you can surrender expired passport as well.
You will need this to obtain PIO/OCI card for your son.
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 9:09 pm
by ban.s
nnj10 wrote:AFAIK, there is no time limit on surrender of Indian passport after acquiring British passport, although there is a penalty for using Indian passport for entry to India, three months after acquiring foreign nationality.
there is a penalty for retention of passpport after 3 years of obtaining foreign citizenship.
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 9:10 pm
by nnj10
ban.s wrote:nnj10 wrote:AFAIK, there is no time limit on surrender of Indian passport after acquiring British passport, although there is a penalty for using Indian passport for entry to India, three months after acquiring foreign nationality.
there is a penalty for retention of passpport after 3 years of obtaining foreign citizenship.
Hmm...good to know that.