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VFS Global wins contract to provide visa, passport services for India in US

These six cities in the US include Washington DC, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta, and Houston, according to a statement.

Indian-Americans welcome restoration of OCI card travel benefits

The OCI card, which allows lifelong visa free travel to India with certain limitations to people of Indian-origin, was suspended by the Ind...

OCI card holders from US, UK, Germany, France can visit India: Home Ministry

Apart from OCI card holders, other foreigners from these countries have also been allowed to avail Indian visa facility for business, medic...

Tablighis from foreign nations can’t ask to be deported as matter of right: Govt to SC

​​Some 227 foreign nationals had left India before a lookout circular could be issued against them, the court was told. No foreign Tablighi...

Govt allows certain categories of foreigners to enter India amid COVID-19 curbs

Among those allowed entry into India are married couples where one spouse is an OCI cardholder and the other is Indian national, and studen...

Nizamuddin Markaz: British national challenges charge sheet and LOC, HC seeks Centre, Delhi govt stand

Justice A J Bhambhani issued notice to the Bureau of Immigration under the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Delhi government and Crime Branch ...

OCI card holders from US face 'harassment' on arrival at Mumbai airport: Family members

The five couples arrived at the Mumbai airport on Monday as part of India's Vande Bharat Mission, the biggest exercise carried out by the I...

Indians launch SOS campaign to travel home with minor children having US citizenship

Travel to India by a non-Indian citizen, except for certain categories of those having Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) card, is barred due...

Govt allows certain categories of OCI cardholders to visit India

Minor children born to Indian nationals abroad and holding OCI cards, couples where one spouse is an OCI cardholder and the other an Indian...

2,288 Indians repatriated from UK, OCI students urge help

Since the first special Air India flight took off from London's Heathrow Airport for Mumbai on May 8, there have been eight routes to diffe...

Indian government will soon take decision on OCI visa issue: Minister

Participating in a virtual panel discussion with Indian-Americans on COVID-19, organised jointly by the Federation of Indian Associations (...

Government suspends all visas, bars travel by OCI card holders

The Home Ministry also said it has kept in abeyance multiple-entry life-long visas given to Overseas Citizens of India card holders till in...

With surge in NRI calls, Centre-appointed panel asks govt departments, states to address complaints

Head of the panel, senior bureaucrat K Shivaji, said as of now over 77,000 complaints have been sent in by people to state government and c...

Bodies of Indians who die abroad due to COVID can be brought back: MHA

According to the SOP, the human remains mean the dead body and the exhumed body of confirmed or suspected COVID-19 patients. It says the im...

India urged to extend renewal date of OCI card till Dec 31

In December, the Ministry of Home Affairs' Foreigners Division issued an office memorandum directing the relevant government agencies and a...

Home Ministry relaxes travel conditions for OCI cardholders

The Home Ministry has relaxed travel conditions for the Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) cardholders, in certain age group. An OCI cardh...

Govt relaxes certain guidelines for reissue of OCI cards

"In case an OCI card holder who has attained the age of 50 years and got his/her passport renewed subsequently but has not got his/her OCI ...