OCI Card For PIOs

Jaipur Foot USA Chairman Prem Bhandari, who has helped several Indians stranded in the US to return to their homeland amid the COVID-19 pandemic, has written a letter to Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla

The Ministry of Home Affairs has allowed certain categories of foreigners, including OCI cardholders and minors who hold OCI cards, whose parents are Indian nationals, a senior ministry official said

The image of India as a seriously flawed democracy is also likely to get deeply etched in international psyche and that may take a very long time to undo

Taseer becomes ineligible to hold an OCI card, as per the Citizenship Act, 1955, as the OCI card is not issued to any person whose parents or grandparents are Pakistanis

OCI is a scheme that was introduced in response to demands for dual citizenship by the Indian diaspora