Overseas Citizens of India, stung by Home Ministry notification, plan to take battle to Supreme Court
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May 13, 2021 15:08 IST
The March 4 order asked professionals such as journalists, engineers and researchers to notify the Ministry about their activities in India.
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View of Overseas Citizen of India Card issued to non resident Indians along with U.S. Passport.
The March 4 order asked professionals such as journalists, engineers and researchers to notify the Ministry about their activities in India.
The Home Ministry’s March 4 order that required professional Overseas Citizens of India (OCIs) such as journalists, engineers and researchers to notify the Ministry about their activities in India has left them in the lurch.
A March 2021 notification by the MHA brings in a number of restrictions against Overseas Citizens of India cardholders, even allowing the government to cancel an OCI card without any scope for remedy.
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The government has simplified the process of maintaining Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) cards. Now, the (OCI) cardholders will be required to get their document re-issued only once at the age of 20 instead of multiple times needed currently needed to be done currently, according to the Union Home Ministry. This will remove the confusion to many OCI cardholders on the process of renewing the card at the age of 20 and 50 and one doesn t have to go through the whole OCI card renewal process again, Dr Thomas Abraham chairman of the Global organisation of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) told PTI on Thursday.
NEW DELHI: As many as 80 Overseas Citizens of India (OCIs), most of them residing in India, requested the Supreme Court on Monday to direct the government to end treating them as second class citizens, allow them to freely express their views and dissent against the government and confer on them all the rights enjoyed by an Indian citizen.
Appearing for the OCIs, 57 of whom are residents of Bengaluru, senior advocate R Venkataramani told a bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian that though they contribute a lot to India through payment of taxes and through their profession, they live in fear of losing their OCI status because of arbitrary power conferred on the government to cancel their status. The bench sought the Centre s response.
Overseas Citizens of India Move SC Over Centre s Rules Targeting Profession, Speech
The petitioners said that section 7D of the Citizenship Act allows the Centre to cancel the registration of OCIs over violation of any law or for showing disaffection to the constitution of India.
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New Delhi: Eighty Overseas Citizens of India (OCIs) have moved Supreme Court over concerns of not being able to freely express their views and register dissent against the government, the
OCIs are persons who hold a passport of a foreign country but have connections with India by virtue of birth or parentage. They do not have Indian citizenship or Indian passports.