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Old Jun 24, 2015 | 3:24 pm
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d3vski
 
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: London, UK
Programs: BA Gold (OW Emerald) & Jet Airways - Thank goodness i never got started.......most awful FF program
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Here is an update of the worthlessness of an OCI status.

Despite being registered as an OCI for nearly 10 years, I recently started a new job that requires travelling to India for a very specific reason. I thought that my OCI status, which is regulated under the Citizenship Act of India, would suffice as I have a multi-entry, multi-purpose lifelong entitlement to enter and reside in India.

It turns out that this is not quite so. I now hold a valid OCI registration certificate and a valid visa. Luckily, I also hold 2 passports so that the OCI vignette and the visa are in each.

India - Make your mind up? What am I, a citizen under the Citizenship Act (albeit a 2nd class without all the rights of a sole Indian national) or a foreigner when it suits them?
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