Originally Posted by
oliver2002
It was renamed into OCIC in the early 2010s. This was done exactly to clarify that it's not a citizenship. There are thousands of US citizens with OCI and security clearances... if you are in doubt you can ask for clarification.
I am fully and personally aware that many US citizens have OCI and clearances. Doesn't mean it's not a source of potential confusion.
Originally Posted by
Acid
Maybe Britain -
https://www.gov.uk/types-of-british-...erseas-citizen
I'm not sure what the confusion is - A green card is a travel document, technically a passport is not required for entry into US by LPR's. An OCI is just a visa in a booklet linked to a passport and they recommend you update it using OCI Misc Services if the linked passport changes.
But looks like British Overseas Citizens are in fact given some level of British citizenship status with passports reflecting that. Indian OCI holders have no 'citizenship' rights per se (voting, holding office, serving in military).
Can one actually enter the US with only a green card and not also a passport of your country of citizenship? I remember doing that maybe 50 years ago at Niagara Falls and going to Canada and back, but thought passports have been required for quite some time now.
The confusion is not for the OCI holder nor Indian govt, but for others that assume OCI holders possess some form of dual citizenship with India.
Originally Posted by
malgudi
It's not a big deal as you make it out to be ... calm down
Well, maybe not a big deal to you, but having recently had to provide a detailed explanation that OCI was NOT a dual-citizenship document to background investigator for a US security-related agency (who was completely unaware of that fact) for the nth time, I assure you it can get tiresome. And I'm quite calm about it, thank you, doesn't mean I can't opine on the naming stupidity.