HeisenbergCanada said:
I know this may sound really stupid, but I'm just curious to know!
How will the Indian authorities come to know that someone has acquired the Canadian citizenship/passport? How will they find out if we travel with the Indian passport, after getting the citizenship?
Sure they wouldn't know when u travel to India. Problem is when you return then they would know if you use the Canadian pp u will be in trouble...
and this is from a immihelp site
I wouldn't try this...
cprak0
Hello,
I finally got time to get the renunciation certificate. So I went to the travisa website thinking I just have to pay the $20 to get that. But once I started filling out the form, it also added $250 penalty. Here are my dates
Became US citizen in July 2001
Got US passport in Aug 2001
My last indian passport was issued in 1999 and hence expired in 2009.
Once I got my US passport, I never used my Indian Passport.
But I still got tagged with the $250 penalty. They rule they say is " If the most recent Indian passport is retained for more than 3 years after acquisition of citizenship of another country, a penalty of $250.00 will be automatically calculated as a part of the Order Form except where the most recent Indian passport expired before January 1, 2005 or where the most recent Indian passport shows a 'Cancelled' stamp. In addition, a penalty of $250.00 will be charged for each case of misuse of the Indian passport for travel after 3 months of acquisition of citizenship of another country subject to a maximum penalty of $1250.00."
This is not right. The rule did not exist (or I did not know) about it till 2009. So how would I have known to get the renunciation done?
