Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI)

  • Recently, India decided to cancel the registration of many Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) card holders for carrying out pro-Khalistan activities and anti-India propaganda in Canada.
  • The OCI is given to registered overseas Indians under the Citizenship Act, 1955 and that provides long term visa free travel and stay in India with certain privileges normally not given to a foreign national.
  • It was implemented first in India under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2003 as recommended by L.M. Singhvi committee, set up in 2000.
  • It earlier included the Persons of Indian Origin, which was subsequently abolished in ....
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