PIO Card

 I just received my daughter PIO card by Fed-ex, feeling nice, Good luck to all.

Passport sent by post/courier number YYYY 12/01/2014
Your application has been collected from the Embassy/Consulate and is being sorted. Your application will be ready for collection from our Application Centre within one business day. 12/01/2014
Your application has been submitted at The Indian Embassy/Consulate for further processing. 11/06/2014
Your application is in process. Your tracking id is YYYY 11/05/2014
Your application has been received and will be submitted subject to verification. 11/05/2014

Hi,

After a long wait, I received my daughters PIO card today. Unfortunately, the first page is not stamped with the NY embassy stamp, where it clearly says 'STAMP'.

I see a stamp in that area on a sample PIO card online.

Has anyone had a similar experience?

I am not sure how important that stamp is? Will the officers at the Indian airport cause any problems because of this?
Or does anyone really care about the stamp??

It has been a ridiculous experience for me till now, and only making it worse further.

Anyone with a similar experience (without stamp) please post here if you took any steps to rectify this.

Thanks,
Nilesh.

Only able to see the following update

Your application has been submitted at The Indian Embassy/Consulate for further processing. 11/03/2014
Your application is in process. Your tracking id is USAS7043XX14 11/03/2014
Your application has been received and will be submitted subject to verification. 11/03/2014

Emailed the customer support and though the http://www.in.ckgs.us/pio.shtml says processing time is 10-15 days I got a reply saying processing time is 4-6 weeks.

Tried calling the number provided but nobody picks up.

Just want to share my child's PIO tracking, Good luck to all

Passport sent by post/courier number 77xxxxxxxxx 12/01/2014
Your application has been collected from the Embassy/Consulate and is being sorted. Your application will be ready for collection from our Application Centre within one business day. 12/01/2014
Your application has been submitted at The Indian Embassy/Consulate for further processing. 11/06/2014
Your application is in process. Your tracking id is USAS7043XX14 11/04/2014
Your application has been received and will be submitted subject to verification. 11/04/2014

Hello,
My daughter Pio and passport stucked at ckgs since 20 days....it was approved on 11/20/2014...for some reason this people are not dispatching the documents in courier and been hold.we tried calling numerous time and waited so long for the esclating service...since we live in boston,it takes wholeday to comeover to newyork.we just need help someone live close to ckgs and can go and check whats going on there and let us knw..so that we can plan to go to ckgs for pick up.
 
Greatly apperciate your feedback and anyone can help us to check my daugter pio card status ...Please inbox me ur contact # to [email protected].

Thanks.

Atlast my aaplication is approved my application date was 11/03/2014 Best of luck guys :)

Folks,
I have submitted application for my daughters PIO on 11/06 and its still pending with consulate. My travel date is 12/09. Based on your experiences what are my chances of getting PIO in time ? Do i have any fallback option ? Can i apply for Visa on arrival for my daughter who is 6 months old ?
Thanks for your help !

Regards,
-Harshad.

Any Updates for SFO pio ? I have seen pio application behind me getting approved, i worried bcoz im travelling 10th dec .
My application date is 03/11/2014

PIO SFO 10/30 approved.

Just want to share my experience with you. I applied in person on 11/12 at C&K in New York and it was sent to the consulate on 11/13 (per the tracking). I am traveling to India on Dec 10th. After reading some of the blogs over here, I got nervous and decided to go to the consulate in person to check the status (I live less than 5 minutes walk from the consulate).
Experience at the consulate -
I got there at 8:45 on 11/28, there were about 8 people in line before me (all for emergency visa as their grandmothers either died or was very sick...what a coincidence :) ).
Due to some confusion, I ended up waiting for a hour for a person to speak to me about PIO issue, so I spoke to another lady processing emergency visa. Within 5 minutes a very sweet young lady came to the window to assist me. I gave her my daughters passport number (very important to have to be able to track) and I explained to her that I needed to travel to India soon.I was hesitant to tell her about my sick grand mother (though that is the true reason), before I could give her any reason for coming there, she check the status and told me that it was already approved and that it will be sent to C&K shortly. I asked if she could give it to me, and she asked me to come at 4PM. I went back at 4PM and my daughters passport was ready to be picked up.
What great service, the staff there are very polite and put up a lot with most of the applicants.

Good luck to you, happy holidays and safe travels

Regards
A happy PIO customer