Dear fellow goanet readers Saving my last puffs of fairy dust to welcome someone when she returns magically to the green, green grass of goanet so unable to puff it on my OCI to change it into an Indian Passport. Usually at this point, I am at tucking into some nice Goan goodies to get me out of another State of Goan Confusion but I can't call on my sweet advisor to suggest any as she has gone into "silent" mode.
When Roland Francis advised that an Indian Passport is the same as an OCI, minus voting rights, what a relief, none of us need any voting rights anyway, we have already voted Goa as the Paradise of the East. Roland Francis writes: Quote In Goa, there are thousands of Portuguese passport holders who acquired Portuguese nationality within the last 30 years who have not given up their Indian citizenship although that is the law. Unquote The lifespan of my British Passport is 10 years after which it is dead and buried in my memories box, the photograph on it a constant reminder of how young I once looked. Another mystery to solve, these thousands of Portuguese passport holders who acquired Portuguese nationality within the last 30 years, have they obtained these passports to put in glass cases to show off on the walls of their homes, a memento of past times? Are these Portuguese Passports over and out, still valid in case they need to leave Goa all at once? Is this why a bigger airport needs to be built on the Goan horizon? Surely all record breaking stuff....... FN needs to wake up from day dreaming of life as a taxi driver in the US and hit goanet news on the ground running. I can think of one Bombay wallah who writes an excellent "Laugh of the Day". Rose Fernandes Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom 23 September 2012
