Applying for OCI on the basis of father (not much proof)

ragun wrote:Good day everyone,
I would like to apply for an OCI because my father was born and studied in India but later became a citizen of a different country but because he was born in 1935 I'm finding it really difficult to get proof of his Indian origin.

The only things I have are:
My father's current passport which says country of birth as India.
His baptism certificate
Indian and Pakistani citizenship act certificate of registration.

I even had a relative go and look at the local records to see if any other material could be found but for that time period they couldn't find anything or any papers they did find were falling apart.

I don't know if just it saying the country of birth is India in the passport will be enough, the baptism certificate can't be used and I came across a post by someone a couple of months ago that said that the above mentioned certificate of registration was refused as well.

I was told yesterday that if you go to HCI and mention that you have a baptism certificate, they would give you a form which you fill out, then you would take it to an Indian judge who would then stamp it and that could be used as proof but they weren't specific about what the form was called. Could someone here give me more details about this?

Thanks for reading.

ragun wrote:Hello everyone,
I want to get an OCI on the basis of my father, who used to be an Indian citizen (citizen of a different country now) but the weird thing is that the documents in the town where he's from have a different date of birth than his passport. So what I'd like to know is if I need to have a copy of my father's passport as one of the documents in my application submission.

I was just thinking of not including the copy because I have a nativity certificate as proof.

Thanks for reading.