Why do you want to get an OCI card? PIO cards work well and need no replacement. They are valid for the life time of the holder as per gazette notification in later September 2014:
MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 30th September, 2014
No. 25024/9/2014-F.I.In the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Home
Affairs number 26011/4/98-F.I dated the 19th August, 2002, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary,
Part I, Section 1, dated the 19th August, 2002, the Central Government hereby makes the following
amendments in the Scheme for issuance of Person of Indian Origin Card (PIO Card) Scheme, 2002,
namely:
1. (1) This scheme may be called the Scheme for issuance of Person of Indian Origin Card (PIO
Card) Amendment Scheme, 2014.
(2) It shall come into effect on the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Scheme for issuance of Person of Indian Origin Card (PIO Card) Scheme, 2002,
(a) for paragraph 6, the following paragraph shall be substituted, namely :
6. Validity of PIO Card: A PIO Card issued to an applicant shall be valid for his life time
from the date of its issue provided that such applicant has a valid passport.
Explanation.For the purpose of this paragraph, it is hereby clarified that a PIO Card which
has been issued prior to the date of publication of this notification shall be deemed to be valid
for life time of its holder subject to the condition that such person has a valid passport.
(b) In paragraph 9,
(i) In sub-paragraph (ii), the words and figures if his stay on any single visit in India does
not exceed 180 days shall be omitted;
(ii) sub-paragraph (iii) shall be omitted;
(iii) sub-paragraph (iv) shall be renumbered as sub-paragraph (iii).
VEENA KUMARI MEENA, Jt. Secy