Originally Posted by
oliver2002
Last month in BOM OCI were first sent to the 'foreigners' queue which took its dear time as people were just plain stupid to use the fingerprinting machines. (Worked for us on the first attempt, I guess the practice at the US border helps). As the 'Indian' counters were idle, someone from the BoI came over and started yelling 'all OCIs can use the Indian counters!' so all OCIs ran over to the 'Indian' counters. So if they want to they can take care of OCI at the normal counters. My family had to update their new passport numbers and fingerprints this time, in my case all went quick (only one finger scanned) as I had already come in a few times since 2020.
OCI 's can be cleared at the Indian passport counters.. Landed af COK this morning and was in the foreign passport queue ( British passport With OCi )
Was in the queue for over 30 minutes when they announced that OCI can use the indian queue.
There was a mad rush of people behind us to the indian queue . Since me and the missus were nearly at the front by then we decided to stay put and cleared immigration in the foriegn passport queue
As you mentioned only one finger had to be scanned ( right middle finger ) as they had recorded our fingerprints on our last trip in September ..
What I not sure is whether this is only allowed when the foreigner queue is full or whether I can just join the indian queue.