Dear Alpana,
Glad that the information furnished is useful. Regarding the rules for foreign passport holders to stay in India pls check the URL http://www.immigrationindia.nic.in/instructions_foreigners.htm . As far as I know the present rules are as follows (pls check with the Indian embassy for the updates): REGISTRATION i) Under the rules, foreigners entering into India on Long Term Visa i.e. for a period more then 180 days on Student, Employment, Business, Research and missionary visa etc are required to get themselves registered within 14 days of their arrival with the concerned Foreigners Registration Officer. Hence, foreigners holding this visa may register themselves with FRO Chandigarh within 14 days of their arrival. ii) Foreigners other then those mentioned above will not be required to get themselves registered, even if they have entered into India on a Long Term Visa provided their continues stay in India does not exceed 180 days. If the intention of the foreigner is to stay for more than 180 days, he/she should get himself/herself registered within 180 days from the date of arrival with FRO. iii) Foreigners holding tourist or other short term visa upto 180 days are not required to register with FRO. In the past (1970 onwards) on several visits to "home", my wife who is a Dutch passport holder, had to register with the Jorhat police. During our return journey to Calcutta this was checked at Jorhat Airport. First time when we went to India together we had to get the permit from Assam House, Calcutta and then onwards from the Ministry of Home Affairs Delhi. The local embassy at that time was not able to issue the same. I think it was connected with the special Inner Line Permit or Restricted Area permit. I don't think you need that now. If you have interest and time you can check the following link (the jig-saw-puzzle of government rules): http://aasc.nic.in/Acts%20and%20Rules%20(GOA)/Passport%20Deptt/Passport%20de ptt.htm Greetings, Wahid da _____ Van: Alpana B. Sarangapani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: woensdag 12 maart 2008 0:45 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: 'A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world' Onderwerp: RE: [Assam] question on citizenship Urgentie: Hoog Dear Wahid-da: Thanks for your mail with the detailed information - will be very handy. The tip to carry the old passport along with it, is a good one. Yes, it would take just a second to find 'not enough/proper information' for the airport officials to send me back and all my vacation time, money and eagerness/enthusiasm to visit "home" will be exhausted in seconds and would have to wait a year for another trip. I think the same rule would apply for the 10 year visa permit on one page of an old passport. I wish they had a way to re-stamp that on the new passport. About reporting to the police in India, do you have to do that for short visits as well? I have never stayed back longer than 6 months and reported to the police. It is a nuisance, especially in some places where even they wouldn't know what to do with it and make things unnecessarily complicated. You know how it works. I am glad I just have to do that in Assam or in Chennai - not Delhi or Bihar. Again, thanks for your note, as always. Regards, - Alpana "In order to make spiritual progress you must be patient like a tree and humble like a blade of grass" _____ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > CC: assam@assamnet.org > Subject: RE: [Assam] question on citizenship > Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 09:56:01 +0100 > > > The Overseas Indian Citizenship is not a "dual citizenship" or a "dual > nationality". The Indian constitution does not allow dual nationality. > > In order to obtain an OCI card a foreign passport is a must. OCI is a life > long visa to travel to India. While in India you get some other benefits > like not reporting to police after arrival etc. For the official definitions > of NRI/PIO/OCI see the attachment. It is from the link > http://www.mha.nic.in/oci/chart.pdf. > > If you download from the www.mha.nic.in and would like to save the document > make sure that it saves as PDF. File. Otherwise you will have difficulty > opening the file. > > If you have the OCI sticker on a passport which has expired and you obtain a > new passport then it is not possible to get a new OCI sticker in your new > passport. So while travelling to India be careful to take your old passport > with the OCI sticker along with the new passport. Otherwise you will not be > allowed to enter India and sent back by the next available flight. See the > attached article "OCI sticker needed to enter". > > You can also check http://www.immigrationportal.com/showthread.php?t=209468 > for extra information. > > The Indian Embassy Washington also provides the necessary information: > http://www.indianembassy.org/consular/Overseas_Citizen/OCI.html > > Greetings, > Wahid Saleh > www.indiawijzer.nl > The Dutch portal with India related information > Coming together is a beginning | Keeping together is progress | Working > together is success > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens > Alpana B. Sarangapani > Verzonden: zondag 9 maart 2008 6:17 > Aan: A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world > Onderwerp: Re: [Assam] question on citizenship > > > Thanks for the information. > > > Please go through MEA web site.This is the prime action done by UPA Govt.> > http://mha.gov.in/ > And they made sure that every time you try to open a site (especially the > ones in .pdf files), your computer freezes and have to close and reopen the > browser and then give up. > > If one is paranoid, one could say it's part of the conspiracy against the > Assamese. :) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "In order to make spiritual progress you must be patient like a tree and > humble like a blade of grass" > > > > > Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 03:14:01 +0000> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > assam@assamnet.org> Subject: Re: [Assam] question on citizenship> > Baideo,> > Please go through MEA web site.This is the prime action done by UPA Govt.> > http://mha.gov.in/ > and to get the entire Govt of India list see here- > http://goidirectory.nic.in/exe.htm> Hope this will benefit you.> Namaskar.> > > Bikash> > "Alpana B. Sarangapani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote:Anybody knows if India is allowing dual citizenship now? Or PIO card > is still the only way to go?> Thanks for any help.> > > > > > > > > > > > > > "In order to make spiritual progress you must be patient like a tree and > humble like a blade of grass"> > > > > > _________________________________________________________________> Helping > your favorite cause is as easy as instant messaging. You IM, we give.> > http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home/?source=text_hotmail_join> > _______________________________________________> assam mailing list> > assam@assamnet.org> http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org> > > > > > ---------------------------------> Now you can chat without > downloading messenger. 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