> ----- If you are talking about a US passport and a ten year Indian visa, yes > you can get it transferred to a >new passport by paying a fee to the visa > office. It takes a day. I had it done. That is a good piece of information which makes perfect sense. Thanks!
“In order to make spiritual progress you must be patient like a tree and humble like a blade of grass” > Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:08:14 -0700> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [email protected]> Subject: Re: > [Assam] question on citizenship> > " 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. "> ----- If you are talking about > a US passport and a ten year Indian visa, yes you can get it transferred to > a new passport by paying a fee to the visa office. It takes a day. I had it > done.> Dilip> =========================================================> > > "Alpana B. Sarangapani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> 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. 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