Not sure whether you have the royal chapa "Ragdha Kiya" that accompanies the word "Cancelled". Your cancelled passport must have those key words on the first and last couple of pages. If you apply for an OCI visa, it comes as a pre-paid service ! :wink: Thanks maveli62. I will post it to them tomorr...

mahil_2000 said: Oh and btw, someone on this forum has already travelled on an ILR after naturalisation and after having applied for British passport. So how exactly were people using 2nd nationality passport with ROA for illegal travel?(not asking in offending manner) There are probably several way...

mahil_2000 said: Well, if most of people's family is in India it is natural that people would want to keep their indian passport. Like relatives might say, buy this land or that land (you know how the story goes back home). Some retired folks would want to keep Indian passport as they would want to ...

That means that they have not yet changed the chapter 14 Annex H to reflec that OCI is not dual citizenship (at least as yet). I think this may take some time as the Home secretary is presently dealing with a larger mess than just errors on a webpage. Annex H was last updated on 16/05/06, before th...

Hey, by the way has any one seen a country issuing visa to its own "citizens"?. Forget politicians, I wonder what training programs those IAS/ IFS guys in the civil service go thru to get internationally publicity of this kind for utter their stupidity on their definition of the word “citizen”? We ...

I just feel vindicated in that my contribution to this thread on 4th June has indeed been correctly understood by the UK Home Office now. I hoped that the Indian govt. home ministry would have been clear right at the very start ... but maybe I was hoping for too much. Once a babu .... always a babu ...

Finally the UKHO have made sense of the babus understanding of Dual Nationality with respect to India and have clarified this. You may want to check this out. http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/applying/nationality/informationonindiancitizenship The Ministry of Home Affairs, India, has recently provid...

Also if you read through fruther, you see that OCI is granted to only those eligible people from the eligible countries which allow some form of dual citizenship. Think about this (Just like the UK govt. does) : Why would the Indian govt. need to say that the other country will have to allow "Dual ...

Nope. In one of the recent news item, British government had announced that one would lose British consular protection if he had any form of citizenship of the country that he/she was in at that time. Unfortunately, even though Indian govt. clearly says the OCI Citizenship is only a lifetime visa s...

global wrote: And is better to go for OCI or PIO? Someone told me that OCI is not legal yet for employment in India is it true?

Did you ever hear of anything that is NOT legal in India?
If you have heard so, you certainly haven't been there for a VERY long time !

You may need a little patience when you come to India with your brand new OCI visa. The immig. people in India are not familiar seeing it and so zooming through immig. may not happen first time around. So be prepared.
It took me 5 mins. at the immig. counter, but they were courteous.

It is another way of keeping off migrants - by charging astronomical fees. Actually the fault lies with us - people seeking to immigrate / new immigrants into the UK. We create the demand and hence the UKHO revises the fee structure one way only as it is the quickest, least resistable and incontrov...

Hello I was wondering if a PIO or an OCI can apply to themanagement schools in india(IIM's, XLRI ...)? PIOs ... YES The various benefits available to a PIO cardholders are: No visa required for visiting India during the period of validity of PIO Card. Exemption from the requirement of registration ...

So here are a futher 2 questions for you jaihind (if you don't mind) - 1) What time did you getto the HCI to collect your OCI? 2) Were you part of the 15 tokens allowed daily or do you reckon you were over and above the 15 tokens/day. I went at about 9.45am and told them that I've been called to re...

basis wrote:Jaihind - When was the application posted ? Because that's more relevant date as you rightly said application on web can be done anytime compared to actually submitting it to the consulate.

It was posted on 22nd Jan - First Class

jaihind- when you went to collect your OCI did you have to line up and collect the tokens etc or were you able to walk straight in? thanks You first have to be called or receive a letter from the HCI saying that your OCI is ready for collection. They will usually indicate a day when you should coll...

Jaihind, Are you sure about the dates? 22 Jan 2006 was on a Sunday and 11th March was on a Saturday . That gives me an impression that HCI (London?) works on weekends also. Is that true? Updates to the website can be done at anytime. The application was sent by post. I recd. a call on the 10th Marc...

Jaihind, For the benefit of the board members, can you please post your time-line for OCI? e.g. Date of application, which embassy (London/B'gham, etc), Date Granted, Date of letter received from HCI, Date when OCI sticker pasted on your passport, etc. Thanks. DoApp: 22 Jan 2006 DoGranting: 9 Feb 2...

Although the PIO card seems to be more expensive than the OCI?... £215 against £165...?... Less hassle though... Why pay £215 when you can get something for £165? If waiting time is not of the essence, a OCI is definetely a better option. And the OCI is absolutely NO hassle. Part A of the form can ...

Darbar - What you need to do is watch and see when your OCI is granted on the OCI website. Once it is granted, it takes roughly a month for it to be sent from India to the local consulate. All stickers are produced there along with the registration booklet. Once the consulate receives the sticker + ...

Any forum available to impress upon the GOI about how obsolete certain restrictions such as Mountaineering; Missionary or Research activities are for OCI holders. Most OCI holders have been former citizens anyway and now to have such restrictions imposed upon them, I consider them superfluous. The r...

IMHO all the consulates, governments understand things if said clearly. india govt is confusing everyone including us and iself - by calling it 'dual citizenship' and putting a condition 'citizens of countries allowing dual citizenship'. I've forwarded this to the Indian Consulate for clarification...

lemess wrote:

it is close to a permanent residence permit but not quite

I understand but as there is no other catagory status easily enough understood by most HOs the world over, I tried to refer it to to closest known understanding, that of PR of India.

basis wrote: It is not restricted to 2 years in the UK. It is absences from the UK of more than 2 years at any one time which could result in using ILR. Other Indefinite Leave to Remain is as the name suggests for Indefinite period. My fault in not presently it clearly, although I understand it the...

Having read most of the discussion around the issue of OCI, I think the GOI should refer this as Permanant Residency rather than OCI. Permanant Residents have most rights of citizens and that's what it is there for. Most HOs the world over understand this rather than the incomprehensible OCI status....