Let \(\mathcal {F}\) be a holomorphic foliation at \(p\in \mathbb {C}^2\) , and let B be a separatrix of \(\mathcal {F}\) . We prove the following upper bound \(GSV_p(\mathcal {F},B)\le 4\tau _p(\mathcal {F},B)-3\mu _p(\mathcal {F},B)\) , where \(GSV_p(\mathcal {F},B)\) is the Gómez-Mont-Seade-Verjovsky index of the foliation \(\mathcal {F}\) with respect to B, \(\mu _p(\mathcal {F},B)\) is the multiplicity of \(\mathcal {F}\) along B and \(\tau _p(\mathcal {F},B)\) is the dimension of the quotient of \({\mathbb {C}}\{x,y\}\) by the ideal generated by the components of any 1-form defining \(\mathcal {F}\) and any equation of B.