OCI CARD

Sebi approves new rules to boost FPI investments from IFSCs by allowing aggregate contributions from NRIs, OCIs, and RIs up to 100%. The move aims to attract more investments from these groups, aligning with Finance Minister's call to increase NRI p...

Sebi approves increased FPI participation from NRIs and OCIs via IFSCs, simplifies mutual funds' passive schemes. Measures to deter front-running by asset management companies. Issuers can now offer NCDs and NCRPS at reduced face value.

MEA enables Goans and Daman & Diu residents to obtain revocation orders for OCI, replacing surrender certificates. This eases the process and grants them benefits, including visa-free travel and opportunities overseas through Portuguese passports.

India has approved special provision allowing 7th-gen Indian-origin Mauritians to be eligible for OCI Card, aiming to reconnect younger Mauritians with their ancestral land. President Murmu also announced support for the redevelopment of Ganga Talao...

The Indian Immigration authorities have extended the validity of all Person of Indian Origin (PIO) cards, including handwritten ones, until December 31, 2024. The PIO cardholders can continue to use their cards for entry and exit into India until th...

The UIDAI has announced modifications to the Aadhaar Rules through a circular. The circular introduces separate forms for residents and non-resident individuals. NRIs can now apply for Aadhaar using a valid Indian Passport. For NRI children, a valid...

Aadhaar card updation, enrolment details: The UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) has issued a notification on January 16, 2023. The notification amends the rules and regulations for enrolment of Aadhaar number and updation of Aadhaar d...

The Indian government has instructed the investigative agencies to identify Khalistani terrorists across the US, UK, Canada and Australia and cancel their OCI card to prevent them from entering India, as per TV reports.

Instructions have been given to authorities to identify all Khalistani terrorists and sympathizers across US, UK, Canada & Australia and cancel their OCI cards. Their entry into India will be banned, sources tell Mirror Now.India-Canada row: Govt in...

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India has decided to extend the eligibility criteria for Overseas Citizen Of India (OCI) card to original Indian immigrants in Suriname from the fourth to the sixth generation, marking their importance in the 150-year-old bilateral relationship. Pre...

​​You may have dual nationality by automatic operation of different laws rather than by choice. For example, a child born in a foreign country to U.S. national parents may be both a U.S. national and a national of the country of birth.

An Indian national, Boby Sebastian, working in Sudan has been evacuated in the face of deadly unrest, but his Sudanese wife, who is pregnant and without a valid Indian visa or OCI card, has been left behind. The wealthy entrepreneur from Kerala has ...

Chetan Kumar Ahimsa's Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) status was canecelled, a month after he was arrested by Bengaluru police.

Earlier, students belonging to these categories had to go through the preliminary entrance exam to qualify for the Advanced exam for the IITs. But now they have been included in the category of foreign nationals and don't need to go through the prel...

In their plea, the petitioners, represented by lawyer Rishabh Kapur, had said there was no bar on non-Indians from getting their marriage solemnized and registered under the Special Marriage Act, 1954 as long as they comply with the requirements pre...

1.1 lakh Indians and Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) cardholders visited Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan using the cross-border Kartarpur corridor. .

In a submission to Sitharaman, FIIDS said as many as 88 per cent of the Indian Diaspora community in a recent survey had supported the move. FIIDS also urged the Finance Minister to expand the Double Tax Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) to avoid filing of...

"How can you stop a person from coming to India just because his mother used to visit Pakistan," the court said and issued notice to the ministries of external affairs and home affairs and the Consulate General of India in New York, USA, seeking the...