Re: Canada PIOs must give up Indian passport > On surrender of their Indian passport, PIOs will be issued a 'surrender > certificate' which they will have to produce when seeking Indian visa > or PIO card or OCI (overseas citizenship of India) card, according to > the new rules.
Folks, Looks like Indians can now officially renounce Indian citizenship and then turn around and demand second class citizenship of India while holding first class citizenship of Canada. I think the Indians should bite the bullet and join the rest of the forward thinking nations who have no problems allowing full dual citizenship. This classifications of P.I.O., O.C.I. etc etc are steps in the right direction, but wholly unnecessary. All each classification serves is to create new bureaucracy. Mervyn1360Lobo