Originally Posted by
ukdoctor
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..
It was not a peak time, we went through immigration at DEL in 10-15 min each time. This was in Dec 2022 (entry, exit) and before that April 2022 (entry). Plus I have been entering and exiting at CCU twice annually for at least 10 years. I have been photographed every time since the cameras were introduced: but never ever fingerprinted.
PS My OCI "card" predates the fingerprint-upon-application requirement, so they don't have anything on file to compare my current fingerprint to.
PPS According to
this document from GoI (warning: clicking will download file) I am exempt from fingerprinting because of age, but I did not qualify until last year so that does not explain prior years.