{"id":30282,"date":"2024-10-01T16:55:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T11:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/?p=30282"},"modified":"2024-10-01T16:55:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T11:25:19","slug":"overseas-citizen-of-india-oci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/01-10-2024\/overseas-citizen-of-india-oci","title":{"rendered":"Overseas Citizen of India (OCI)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS2\/ Polity and Governance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Context<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Consulate General of India in New York has clarified that rumours circulating on social media regarding OCIs becoming reclassified as \u201cforeigners\u201d are false.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Overseas Citizen of India<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>OCI was introduced by the Indian government in <strong>2005.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A registered OCI is <strong>granted multiple entry, multi-purpose life-long visa<\/strong> for visiting India.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>They are exempted<\/strong> from registration with Foreign Regional Registration Officer (FRRO) or Foreign Registration Officer (FRO) for any length of stay in India.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>OCI cardholders can open special bank accounts in India, they can buy non-farm property and exercise ownership rights and can also apply for a driver\u2019s licence and PAN card.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>However they are<strong> required to seek permission<\/strong> or a permit to visit protected areas in India.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Eligibility Criteria<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It provides for registration as an OCI of all Persons of Indian Origin (PIOs) who were citizens of India on <strong>26th January, 1950<\/strong>, or thereafter, or were eligible to become citizens of India on the said date.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A foreign national who;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Belonged to a territory that became part of India after <strong>15th August, 1947<\/strong>; or<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A child or a grandchild or a great grandchild of such a citizen; or<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A minor child of such persons mentioned above; or<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A minor child whose both parents are citizens of India or one of the parents is a citizen of India is eligible for registration as OCI cardholder.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Who cannot be an OCI?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>An applicant is not eligible to get an OCI card if his\/her parents or grandparents have ever been a citizen of Pakistan or Bangladesh.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Foreign military personnel either in service or retired are also not entitled for grant of OCI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What are OCIs not allowed to do?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The OCI card holder is not entitled to vote; to be a member of a Legislative Assembly or of a Legislative Council or of Parliament; to hold Indian constitutional posts such as that of the President, Vice President, Judge of the Supreme Court or High Court.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He or she cannot normally hold employment in the government.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/who-is-overseas-citizen-of-india-what-are-the-rights-and-privileges-of-oci-card-holders-9596359\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>IE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Consulate General of India in New York has clarified that rumours circulating on social media regarding OCIs becoming reclassified as \u201cforeigners\u201d are false.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30283,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30282\/revisions\/30283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}