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OCI Card rules 2025
August 17 , 2025
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- India has tightened its Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card rules, which allow the Indian-origin foreign nationals to visit India without any visa.
- The OCI registration of individuals will be liable for cancellation if convicted of a serious criminal offence or formally charge-sheeted in cases involving the grave charges.
- The Ministry specified two key grounds for cancellation:
- If an OCI cardholder is sentenced to imprisonment for a term of two years or more, and
- If they are charge-sheeted for an offence that carries a punishment of seven years or more.
- The OCI card scheme was launched in 2005 by the Government of India to offer benefits to persons of Indian origin.
- The OCI cardholders receive a multiple-entry, multi-purpose lifelong visa to visit India.
- They are exempt from registration with the local police regardless of the duration of stay in India.
- Cardholders enjoy parity with Non-Resident Indians in financial, economic, and educational matters, excluding ownership of agricultural or plantation land.
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