Originally Posted by
SeeBuyFly
I am OCI and have never been fingerprinted---most recent entry was through DEL (Dec 2022). It is not at all clear to me what triggers fingerprinting.
In DEL I did use the normal foreigner line but it was quick. It was nice of them to offer a separate OCI counter in the past (and possibly in future), but there is certainly no requirement that they do so. We are foreigners and can reasonably be required to use the foreigners' line.
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All people with foriegn passports have to be fingerprinted..Its possible that the system may have been offline at the time.
I've been to India several times over the last 6 months .. Looks like they have an option to override the fingerprinting process ( at least for OCI ) . They did this to me when it didn't work after multiple attempts in the trip in November
So maybe they are doing this at peak times..