OCI

New Year Gift: Date Extended for Converting PIO into OCI

The year 2016 was full of upheavals. India announced surgical attack on corruption. The sudden announcement of banning currency notes of 500 and 1000 felt no ground under the feet of every Indian. These denominations configured 86% of the liquid asset in this economy. But this declamation on 8th November, 2016 ceased its liquidity. NRIs, PIOs and OCIs are no exceptions. They too fell under this grid.

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OCI Card

Checklist of Documents to Get OCI Card Online

Merger of PIO card to OCI

The bulletin of merging Person of Indian Origin (PIO) card in OCI card created chaos in Indian community abroad in 2014. Non-residents were stricken with fear. Actually, the then prime minister of India Narendra  Modi announced this merger. It was a shocking moment for the emigrants’ community since the PIO card was the only licence to battle the difficulties during visits to India.

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Attestation certificate

Start-to-Finish Steps of Certificate Attestation in India

My sister met a severe accident in UK last year. She owned property and had some funds in the bank. Since her condition was critical, I had to be with her at any cost. But my request for UK visa was rejected.

A Power of Attorney (PoA) helped me in transferring her funds and property to my name while being in India (which my sister desperately wanted to). But what I did to reach there, let I narrate in the correct procedure from start to finish. Please walk through all these steps thoroughly for getting rid of agony due to delay or rejection of documents (which i faced):

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