I was planning to go to Pakistan in november december this year.
my Pakistani passport is expired already, my son will have only british passport
so i will need NICOP or a visa or renew Pakistani passport, looking at visa fee being charged NICOP looks best bet.
any one used their online service? how long they take process and send out the cards? specially from UK.
thanks for help
I got my daughter's POC 2 1/2 weeks after I had applied for it online. But I have heard from people whose cases took much longer.
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i know someone who applied online for a NICOP card, the folks behind the scenes not only took ages to have his card made and deliver, they also spelt his name wrong. Those guys would **** up a cup of coffee. 
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2-1/2 is reasonable time, but as always with any Pakistani department you cant be sure for timing. will go for contengency plans
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from canada it took 2 months
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took one month for me and I am in the U.S
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POC took for me and my daugther two weeks only :-)
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well me and my wife's arrived just after 2 weeks via DHL 24 hours service from ISB and was able to track it online.
but lil son is still waiting his first Pakistani ID, so many emails and chat, calls, online status seem to be stuck at frist stage, then after chasing and complaints, its moving now bit slowly but still waiting to get it after 7 weeks. so for back up i got him pak visa in case the NICOP isnt delived before departure.
so I can say service is patchy but much better than other departments of Pak.
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7 Weeks is not all that bad. Give it a couple more
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asif, don’t even get me started 
it turns out that I had not filled out a mendatory field “place of birth” due to which they didn’t send me poc. that’s totally screwed up because if “place of birth” was such a friggin’ mandatory field then how come they let me submitted form without it? secondly, couldn’t they simply send me an email asking for the info to complete the process (i’ve to get this info through personal connection via a friend whose relative works at nadra and he looked up for me).
I dont’ know how much nadra is paying you but if I were you I’d just simply friggin’ quit man!
There you have it. Fill out the complete form next time. Don’t blame sweet NADRA for your mistakes. LOL
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k, first you get me back my $150 then I’ll resubmit new appl.
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they probably just don't like you. After I had already paid, one of the NICOP forms was returned to me for missing a piece of document. I scanned it, added and resubmitted the form back and life was good.
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I hav done my pk passport renewd in summer
and tooke me 3 to 4 weeks in bh'm.
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in 2007...i applied for my NICOP..got it in 2 weeks [that too after i missed a document and resubmitted my application...online]...then applied for other family members and got theirs in 3 weeks. never had any problems. they were prompt in replying to my emails and its was a smooth process. if you submit everything required then i didn't think it should take more than 15 days.
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I submitted 3 forms on the same day, no complaints for 2 arrived in 2 weeks. the third one which was required the most of my son cause he didnt have pak passport or visa, we still havent got it :( so had to get him a visa as my son is flying in a day!
me and my wife also have Pak Pasports so NICOP for us wasnt a necessity!
well if there was a problem, I would understand a delay. but in this case, they knew something that I didnt as it wasnt communicated to me at all. as the card status was stuck somehow at first stage of "Data Entry Completed - QC verified".
Initially I thoughts its a routine, but after weeks I raised the alarm on all fronts one by one, email, chat, complaints etc. every one said no problems there i should get it soon, Inshallah!
while they were courteous , but i get the feeling they were getting me off their back with that answer without looking into the issue.
after much hue and cry, status was changed 3 weeks back to "Printed", just got it by DHL today. :)
applied on 27th nov, got 2 in 2 weeks time, 1 took 7/8 weeks dont know why though.
for the service I guess, its fine mostly if there are no glitches. but if you have one, it will be long time required to resolve.
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why do we need a NICOP ?
I have a MRP issued to me by the consulate in Toronto
Isn’t that proof enough that I am a Pakistani, living in Canada ? 
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^^^ well thats true, NICOP remove the need to have another passport all the time with you. plus if one has anyother passport, they hardly use Pakistani passport apart from Pakistan. so its handy to keep this card and other passport! and these IDs are ICAO standard compliant ID and are also machine readable.