urgent help - Medicals, RPRF and Passport Request -October 2009

[hiabhay]

Dear All,

I have received letter from New Delhi office to submit the medicals, RPRF and original passports together. The problem is, I am in UK for full time studies and my spouse is in India.

Now I am wondering how shall I send my original passport to New Delhi and live in UK without passport. From earlier thread, I understand that it may take upto 4/5 months for New Delhi to return the passport. I am not sure how it will be living in UK without original passport.

Would appreciate if someone can guide me on this urgently.

Thanks
Abhay

 

[mahharrouf]

Dear All,

I have received letter from New Delhi office to submit the medicals, RPRF and original passports together. The problem is, I am in UK for full time studies and my spouse is in India.

Now I am wondering how shall I send my original passport to New Delhi and live in UK without passport. From earlier thread, I understand that it may take upto 4/5 months for New Delhi to return the passport. I am not sure how it will be living in UK without original passport.

Would appreciate if someone can guide me on this urgently.

Thanks
Abhay

What I know.... you can't even send your INDIAN passport using mail services... you need to either send by a person or of course traveling there. I have no idea in your situation really... take this response as BUMP and hopefully some one will reply you soon. Good luck.

 

[hiabhay]

Thanks for replying the post. I intend to travel to India to do the medicals along with my family and return to UK immediately. And I found one friend who is willing to take my passport to India.

My only worry is how long CHC would take to return the passport back. Secondly can I attach a covering letter with my passport explaining my situation and requesting them to return the passport as soon as possible?

Can I anticipate that they would return the passport in 1/2 months max.

 

[sweetberry]

Thanks for replying the post. I intend to travel to India to do the medicals along with my family and return to UK immediately. And I found one friend who is willing to take my passport to India.

My only worry is how long CHC would take to return the passport back. Secondly can I attach a covering letter with my passport explaining my situation and requesting them to return the passport as soon as possible?

Can I anticipate that they would return the passport in 1/2 months max.

I am wondering, u are risking... CIC Delhi will be aware that u are in the UK and u r passport is with them...
I dont know, I feel quite weird!!!.. may be u can transfer your case to UK Canadian Embassy???

 

[hiabhay]

Thanks for the replyl. But I am living in UK and my family is in India. So I am not sure if transferring the case to UK would help?

I could not find any UK law specifically describing that person living in UK should hold orginial passport while living in UK. However, person should leave UK upon expiry of his UK visa.

Please comment.

 

[garian4u]

Hiabhay, let me ask you this? Do you need the passport for travelling out of the UK (say for India)? As far as I know the answer should be Yes. If the answer is yes, then you are taking too much of a risk. If your visa expires and you are required to travel back, in case you do not have a passport, I do not know whether it will lead to deportation or not?

On the other hand, as far as I know, once the passport request comes, it is only a matter of around a month to get the PR. And it is quite normal, that in a span of 4-5 months, a person maybe required to travel any place (including internationally). I believe, you can call up CHC Delhi and ask what to do in your case. Then you can write a cover letter or explanation as instructed by them. Your country of residence doesn't change unless you are residing there for at least a year. So, it is perfectly normal to state that your visa office is India, while you are currently in UK.

 

[vmpvmp]

hiabhay, sweetberry must be joking (without any first hand information)!

You can definitely make a request to make it early. What is the risk in that? If one is afraid of even requesting, I think he doesn't have the right to have it.

You can write your date when your visa expires in UK.

Afterwards your wife can go personally to collect the visa stamped PPs, if your limit is going to be crossed. At that time you can even refer to your previous request.

I don't think, by requesting, you are irritating them and they would deliberately delay it to harass you!