Mandatory conversion of PIO card to OCI card?

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kulb
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Posted on: 07-04-15 18:15:12

Looks like everyone who has a PIO will have to apply to convert it to OCI in 3 months.

The process is similar to applying for an OCI card. This is not good news.

http://cgitoronto.ca/content/pio-0

febpreet
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Posted on: 07-04-15 18:55:44

Mudi ji is coming to Canada and he will personally ensure that we won't get mentally harassed ONCE AGAIN at the BLS offices for another schema devised by the 'idle' babus.

Remember, when you prayed this would be your last visit to BLS/Indian Consulate?

Somehow, Indian Govt. never ceases to amaze me.

Wait for a few more years and you will have another Card. Yeh mera VADA hey aapsey! Morons...

kulb
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Posted on: 07-04-15 19:06:34

The whole point of making PIO lifelong and exempt from registration followed by merger with OCI was meant to simplify things for Indians abroad. But It is turning out to be a nightmare now.

My wife/daughter have PIO cards and I thought I was done with BLS harassment. But now this mandatory conversion nonsense.

adamthorat
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Posted on: 08-04-15 00:20:20

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Originally posted by kulb

The whole point of making PIO lifelong and exempt from registration followed by merger with OCI was meant to simplify things for Indians abroad. But It is turning out to be a nightmare now.

My wife/daughter have PIO cards and I thought I was done with BLS harassment. But now this mandatory conversion nonsense.

PIO , OCI all jokes ..what you need is true dual citizenship.

I hope they don't ask the old OCI holders with the U-Visa sticker on their Foreign PP , to convert to the now NEW OCI card which doesn't require the U-Visa sticker anymore.

The purpose of NOT requiring the U-Visa sticker anymore is to simplify things , I hope they don't complicate things further.

The new OCI card will be slightly different from the old OCI card , as the U-Visa will be kind of incorporated into it & combined into the new OCI card.

Very soon you will need a new PAN card , Aadhaar card , Ration card , DL , Election card , Different Surrender certificate , Different cancellation stamp on your old expired Indian PP et al ..to enter India.

tamilkuravan
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Posted on: 08-04-15 06:43:24

One of my cousins (aged 8) has a PIO card.
All the rest have OCI incl. me.
We are all settled in India, with no interntion of entering Canada or Australia for another 5 years.

Does anyone know the procedure to convert it into OCI in India.

I will also google the ministry's posting in India.

Murali

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tamilkuravan
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Posted on: 08-04-15 06:57:33

Good news and bad news.
Good news is that the FFRO office is just next to my office in Trivandrum for submitting OCI application in lieu of existing PIO card,.

Bad news is that OCI application in lieu of existing PIO card must be submitted in the same office that the PIO card was submitted which is CGI Toronto.

Now how will my cousin and his legal guardian travel from TRivandrum to Toronto just to submit the application.

Any one need help to deliver their old mothers / parents who canot speak English to Toronto eh !!!

Murali

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kulb
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Posted on: 08-04-15 10:14:10

If it wasn't worse enough that they will be forcing existing PIO card holders to convert their card to OCI card, they are going even one step further by making it more difficult for those who are not living in the country where their PIO card was issued.

I don't know who makes these rules:

"Place of submission for OCI-Applications (In Lieu of PIO-Card) should be the same as the Place of Issuance of PIO-Card."

http://passport.gov.in/oci/capchaActionPIO

So this means that anyone who lives in India or any other country which is different from the place of issuance of their PIO card, they have to leave the country to go back and apply for OCI card from there.

I hope this will be brought to the notice of higher echelons of the Govt. Instead of making things easy for PIO's, they are making it extremely difficult.

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