9/7/21 - Application sent thru FedEx
9/8/21 - FedEx delivered package
9/8/21 - Email from VFS. Your application is received. You will receive an update once it is processed at VFS. Avg processing time at Mission is 4-6 weeks except Tatkal cases
9/8/21 - Another email from VFS. Asking for Change of appearance & Signature affidavit. There was no change in appearance or signature, so I didn't include it in the original application package.
9/9/21 - Requested documents (Change of appearance & Signature affidavit) sent thu FedEx overnight
9/10/21 - FedEx delivered package @10am
9/10/21 - No update from VFS
9/11/21 - No update from VFS
9/12/21 - No update from VFS
9/13/21 - Email from VFS. Your application is received. You will receive an update once it is processed at VFS. Avg processing time at Mission is 4-6 weeks except Tatkal cases
9/14/21 - No update from VFS
9/15/21 - Email from VFS.We have ‘Received’ your Application and your application is now ‘Under Process’ at Chicago and will be submitted to the Mission for decision making.
9/15/21 - Online Track Your application still shows VFS is waiting for the affidavits.. that I had already sent on 9/9.
9/16/21 - Email from VFS.Your Application has been ‘Processed’ at the VFS India Consular application Centre and currently is ‘In-Transit‘ to the Embassy of India/Consulate General of India for decision making.
9/16/21 - Online status changed to "Your application has reached at the Embassy/Consulate and is currently under review process"
9/17/21 - Passport Seva website status: Passport has been printed.
9/17/21 - Passport Seva website status: Passport is printed and will be delivered shortly.
9/17/21 - Passport Seva website status: Passport has been handed over by the Embassy/Consulate to the OSP executive for further dispatch to the applicant.
9/20/21 - Email from VFS. Your Application has been reviewed by the Embassy of India/ Consulate General of India & will be dispatched using the courier service you had opted.
9/20/21 - Online Status: Your document (s) is dispatched using the return label purchased or sent by you. If using VFS courier, please check for email from "
[email protected]" for details.If you have used your prepaid label then track the status via the website of the concerned service provider.Note: Information is printed on the documents as what you have filled while completing the online Form on the Government Portal. If you have made mistakes while filling up the Govt. form then VFS Indian Consular application Centres wont be in a position to assist. To get the corrections done, you should contact the Embassy of India or its Consulate directly based on your Consular Jurisdiction.
9/21/21 - Received both old and new passport thru FedEx. All look good.