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Old Mar 6, 2017 | 9:39 pm
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Originally Posted by PrivatePilot

I am a US citizen by birth who has a Person of Indian Origin (PIO) card. Is it mandatory to convert the PIO card to OCI after June 30th? Will the PIO card be nullified after this date if we do not convert it?

I ask as I am concerned with the current environment in the US where Indians are being attached/ government policies are very unpredictable. Having been born in the US and never been an Indian citizen, I am hesitant to get something which calls me an “overseas CITIZEN OF INDIA” and would rather prefer to be just a “Person of Indian Origin”. So hopefully you will reconsider the mandatory conversion of PIO to OCI.
As a former PIO holder, your status is now OCI regardless of whether you have been issued a physical OCI card. I'm also quite confused about why you care about the semantics of the name.. OCI is a glorified visa, and there's nothing more to it.

The local CG has no ability to impact policy in this regard either, so I think this letter was probably a wasted effort.
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