Dear Wahid-da: Thanks for your mail with the detailed information - will be very handy. The tip to carry the old passport along with it, is a good one. Yes, it would take just a second to find 'not enough/proper information' for the airport officials to send me back and all my vacation time, money and eagerness/enthusiasm to visit "home" will be exhausted in seconds and would have to wait a year for another trip. I think the same rule would apply for the 10 year visa permit on one page of an old passport. I wish they had a way to re-stamp that on the new passport. About reporting to the police in India, do you have to do that for short visits as well? I have never stayed back longer than 6 months and reported to the police. It is a nuisance, especially in some places where even they wouldn't know what to do with it and make things unnecessarily complicated. You know how it works. I am glad I just have to do that in Assam or in Chennai - not Delhi or Bihar. Again, thanks for your note, as always. Regards, - Alpana
“In order to make spiritual progress you must be patient like a tree and humble like a blade of grass” > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [email protected]> > Subject: RE: [Assam] question on citizenship> Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 09:56:01 > +0100> > > The Overseas Indian Citizenship is not a "dual citizenship" or a > "dual> nationality". The Indian constitution does not allow dual > nationality.> > In order to obtain an OCI card a foreign passport is a must. > OCI is a life> long visa to travel to India. While in India you get some > other benefits> like not reporting to police after arrival etc. For the > official definitions> of NRI/PIO/OCI see the attachment. It is from the link> > http://www.mha.nic.in/oci/chart.pdf.> > If you download from the > www.mha.nic.in and would like to save the document> make sure that it saves > as PDF. File. Otherwise you will have difficulty> opening the file.> > If you > have the OCI sticker on a passport which has expired and you obtain a> new > passport then it is not possible to get a new OCI sticker in your new> > passport. So while travelling to India be careful to take your old passport> > with the OCI sticker along with the new passport. Otherwise you will not be> > allowed to enter India and sent back by the next available flight. See the> > attached article "OCI sticker needed to enter".> > You can also check > http://www.immigrationportal.com/showthread.php?t=209468> for extra > information.> > The Indian Embassy Washington also provides the necessary > information:> http://www.indianembassy.org/consular/Overseas_Citizen/OCI.html > > > Greetings,> Wahid Saleh> www.indiawijzer.nl > The Dutch portal with India > related information> Coming together is a beginning | Keeping together is > progress | Working> together is success> > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----> > Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens> Alpana B. > Sarangapani> Verzonden: zondag 9 maart 2008 6:17> Aan: A Mailing list for > people interested in Assam from around the world> Onderwerp: Re: [Assam] > question on citizenship> > > Thanks for the information.> > > Please go > through MEA web site.This is the prime action done by UPA Govt.>> > http://mha.gov.in/ > And they made sure that every time you try to open a > site (especially the> ones in .pdf files), your computer freezes and have to > close and reopen the> browser and then give up. > > If one is paranoid, one > could say it's part of the conspiracy against the> Assamese. :)> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "In order to make spiritual progress > you must be patient like a tree and> humble like a blade of grass"> > > > > > Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 03:14:01 +0000> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:> > [email protected]> Subject: Re: [Assam] question on citizenship> > Baideo,>> > Please go through MEA web site.This is the prime action done by UPA Govt.>> > http://mha.gov.in/ > and to get the entire Govt of India list see here-> > http://goidirectory.nic.in/exe.htm> Hope this will benefit you.> Namaskar.>> > > Bikash> > "Alpana B. Sarangapani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:Anybody knows > if India is allowing dual citizenship now? Or PIO card> is still the only way > to go?> Thanks for any help.> > > > > > > > > > > > >> "In order to make > spiritual progress you must be patient like a tree and> humble like a blade > of grass"> > > > >> > _________________________________________________________________> Helping> > your favorite cause is as easy as instant messaging. You IM, we give.>> > http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home/?source=text_hotmail_join>> > _______________________________________________> assam mailing list>> > [email protected]> http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org>> > > > > > ---------------------------------> Now you can chat without> > downloading messenger. Click here to know how.>> > _______________________________________________> assam mailing list>> > [email protected]> http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org> > _________________________________________________________________> Shed those > extra pounds with MSN and The Biggest Loser!> http://biggestloser.msn.com/> > _______________________________________________> assam mailing list> > [email protected]> http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org _________________________________________________________________ Climb to the top of the charts! Play the word scramble challenge with star power. http://club.live.com/star_shuffle.aspx?icid=starshuffle_wlmailtextlink_jan _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
