Passport Office Chennai — Information regarding surrender of Indian passport

Jan 21, 2017

Updated by Amala P My daughter got other country nationality and I want to surrender the Indian passport. My case is bit complicated so before applying for surrender certificate I thought of clarifying my questions and the people in the passport office are rude and they denied to provide information. They are just telling that all the information are in online.. I do know that generic information's are online but nothing related to my case. I sent email to rpo.[protected]@mea.gov.in addressing "Shri P K Ashok Babu" and he didn't even bothered to reply to my email even after sending the remainders...

I am not sure how to proceed further...

Below are the details of my case

My Daughter born in London but she is an Indian Citizen at the time of birth and we took Indian passport to travel to India. Later she got naturalized and got her British nationality but she is still in India with an Indian passport.

We recently applied her British passport and we got the same . Now we would like to surrender the Indian passport which in turn we can apply OCI card once we get the surrender certificate for her to stay further in India.

My questions are below

How long will it take to get surrender certificate once passport is surrendered?
What is the maximum time limit to surrender the Indian passport after acquiring foreign nationality?
Do I need to apply Indian visa for her in the mean time to stay in India???
Does parents to be present in person to surrender Indian passport?
Is scanned copy of the naturalization certificate is sufficient to surrender the Indian passport?

NOTE: She didn't travel to any country with the Indian passport once she got her naturalization.