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Jul 20, 2009 | 5:41 pm

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Originally Posted by alex0683de

In India's case, there is the Person of Indian Origin Card which gives the holder many of the benefits a passport would.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-res..._Indian_Origin

PIO and OCI status: 1) do not provide Indian citizenship; and 2) do not include the most important political rights (and even some economic rights) to which Indian citizens are entitled; and 3) do not have any use if a PIO or OCI seeker does not have and/or fails to provide a foreign (read: non-Indian) passport.

PIO and OCI are also more often than not useless when it comes to the primary benefit of a passport: ability to use that document to acquire permission to enter and enter a country other than the one that issued the passport.

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