When we grant your OCI application, we send an email to you conveying about the granting. Granting does not mean that your OCI documents are ready for collection. They need to be printed at Delhi and to be dispatched from there and received here in the Consulate. You can check the status of your OCI application by putting on-line registration number in the second row of the on-line status enquiry. The link for the on-line enquiry is given below:

If you notice that after granting of your OCI application, your OCI documents do not get printed in four working days time (after granting date) then that means there is a problem with your photo. Since the photo is not as per the specifications provided in the website, it has not been accepted by the on-line printing facility (Machine and not a man) at Delhi. As we need to reprocess your application, you need to do the following things:

(a)      Please do the on-line registration once again. Take printout and then scan only first page of the Part-A of the form after you sign or put your thumb impression (as applied) in the box near the space for photo. Sign or put thumb impression (as required) by thick pen (black or blue ink), do not spill over signature /thumb impression out of the signature box. Do not paste photo on the part-A. Please send photo as mentioned in (b) below. Please send scanned copy (jpeg format) of this first page of the Part-A and photograph (jpeg format as separate attachment) to us by email.

(b)    Kindly take photo as per the following: (i) face should be at the center of the photo and face should occupy 75% of the photo area. (ii) Background should be light e.g. sky-blue, (iii) Background should not be white, (iv) There should be proper light on the face...It should not be too bright, dark or reddish or yellowish, (v) If you have lenses, please take care that there should not be a reflection in the eyes, (vi) Eyes should be visible through the thick frames (vii) It is better that you take photo by removing your spects. Do not take photo at departmental stores, take photo from proper photo studio and take it in jpeg. format from them. Please do not send the same photo which you sent with the hard copy of the application (first time), by scanning. This will further delay your application. Please do not send the same photos again and again. You may like to see the photo specifications and sample photos in the tab: How to apply for OCI card? in this website only.

Please note that since you are sending photo in jpeg format to us by email, it should have resolution of 300 x 300 dpi with the photo size of 35 mm x 35 mm, otherwise the system will not accept the same.

(c)      Please send scanned copy of your new on-line registration form as mentioned in (a) above and photo as mentioned in (b) above with your name and mention both on-line registration numbers (new as well as old). Please Click Here To Submit The Reqired Information and The Attachments By Using The On-Line Form. We are requesting these things by online submission to avoid further delay in processing your application. We will reprocess and re-grant your application. You should check the status with new on-line registration number.