The UK Indian Birth Registry Report

A dated, sourced reference for Indian consular document processing in the United Kingdom — the fees, the centres, the portal specifications and, as completed applications accrue, how long they actually take.

Why this exists

Ask how long an OCI card takes from the UK and you will get a different answer from every forum post, agency page and WhatsApp group — rarely dated, rarely counted. Families make real decisions on those numbers: when to book leave, when to buy a flight, whether there is time before a passport expires.

We process these applications, so we can count them. This report is built to publish what we measure, as aggregates, once five completed applications sit behind a row, with the sample size printed next to every figure so you can judge how much weight it carries. It also publishes the reference material that ought to be easy to find and is not: what the government and VFS actually charge, where the centres are and which consular jurisdiction each falls under, and what each portal demands of a photograph, where the portal states it.

The report is in two layers. The reference layer is published now: every value in it carries its source and the date it was read, and anything not yet verified shows as “not published yet” rather than as a number. The timings layer accrues — Sorted publishes a row for a service once five completed applications sit behind it, and not before. We would rather show you an empty row with an honest counter than a median built on two applications.

Layer A — Reference

Everything in this section comes from the published data files at homeberry.ai/data/, fetched live, so a correction made once appears here immediately. Anything marked not published yet is a value we have not yet confirmed against its official source — we do not fill those gaps with a plausible guess.

Fees

VFS centres and consular jurisdictions

Portal photo specifications

Layer B — Timings

What this layer publishes: elapsed days from submission to outcome, over a rolling 90-day window, from completed applications prepared by Sorted, once five sit behind a row. Every figure carries its sample size and the date the file was last updated. Personal data never enters this dataset: see the methodology.

Source file last updated: …

Accuracy

How to cite this report

Journalists, researchers and community organisations are welcome to quote these figures. Please cite the sample size and the date alongside any number — a median over eleven applications and a median over two hundred deserve different weight, and printing the figure without its n strips out the thing that makes it honest.

UK Indian Birth Registry Report, Homeberry AI Solutions Ltd. Retrieved [date], from https://ukindianbirthregistry.org/

Licence

This report and the aggregate data behind it are published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. You may reproduce, republish and build on any of it, including commercially, provided you credit the source. No permission is needed and none has to be asked for.

The reference layer — consular and VFS fees, centre addresses, portal photo specifications — is a compilation of figures published by the Government of India, its missions in the UK, and VFS Global. Those underlying facts belong to nobody; the licence covers this compilation of them, and every row carries the date it was read and, where it came from an official page, a link to it, so it can be checked rather than taken on trust.

The underlying aggregate file is public and machine-readable at https://homeberry.ai/data/processing-times.json (it holds no published timing row until a service reaches five completed applications). If a figure here looks wrong, tell us and we will check it — WhatsApp +44 7352 674636 or info@homeberry.ai.