Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Data page of an OCI card issued on or after 9 January 2015. Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) is a form of permanent residency available to people of Indian origin which allows them to live and work in India indefinitely. It allows the cardholders a lifetime entry to the country along with benefits such as being able to own real estate and ...
India does not permit dual citizenship, but former Indian citizens, and persons of Indian origin, are eligible to apply for an Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card that allows them to live and work freely in India, apart from running for certain political office posts and occupying constitutional posts. They also cannot vote or buy agricultural ...
Prime minister Narendra Modi announced on 28 September 2014 that PIO and OCI cards would be merged. [31] On 9 January 2015, the Person of Indian Origin Card scheme was withdrawn by the Government of India and was merged with the Overseas Citizen of India card scheme. PIO cardholders must apply to convert their existing cards into OCI cards.
The system would not be a typical visa on arrival in order to avoid clutter at the airports, but a system based on a prior online application modelled after Australian Electronic Travel Authority system. [47] [48] [49] On 5 February 2014 it was decided to introduce visa-on-arrival to tourists from 180 countries.
An Indian Identity Certificate, simply known as Identity Certificate (IC), is a travel document issued by the Passport Seva (Passport Service), Consular, Passport & Visa (CPV) Division of the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India to non-citizens of the Republic of India for foreign travel.
It added the notion of "illegal immigrants" to the Act, making them ineligible to apply for citizenship (by registration or naturalisation), and declaring their children also as illegal immigrants. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] Illegal immigrants were defined as citizens of other countries who entered India without valid travel documents, or who remained in ...
The couple argued that the Citizenship Act, 1955 does not distinguish between different-sex and same-sex spouses and that the same-sex spouse of an OCI should be eligible to apply for an OCI card. The plea further claimed that the Foreign Marriage Act violated Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution of India in excluding the recognition of ...
OCI is a form of permanent residency which allows cardholders to live and work in India indefinitely. Without recognition of the right to marry, a foreign-origin sexual or gender minority spouse is not eligible for OCI Card. [23] Recognition of the right to marry for sexual and gender minority individuals is crucial for acquiring a visa and ...