I can now share my travel experience. Flew from Newark to Mumbai on last week on UA. At checkin in EWR, agent looked at OCI and new passport for my daughter and did not say anything and allowed checkin. Didn't ask for old passport (FYI - we have the U-sticker on the old passport) At the gate, they d...
I sympathize with those that were denied boarding before this memo came out. I do have some choice words for the officials that literally hurt these people. Interesting part is that Immigration had no issue with this, just airlines (ostensibly on the orders of the govt) We should strongly campaign t...
Scammy (not sure why you chose this name ) - thanks for the clarification. And I agree with you, OCI was sold as a lifelong visa but it is not. Better to get OCI after age 21.
That is great ! Just make sure to Carry old passport with oci visa for minors ! We been traveling with both new and old passport for kids along with oci cards to India from US for past 6 years and there has been no issues.We are leaving this week and continue planning to do the same(carry old and n...
Its good to hear the experience from USA2001. Very encouraging. Some more research that I have done shows that in Oct, the system that airlines uses to check the visa requirements showed that the OCI needed to be renewed. The Timatic system has since been updated and revised this to a "Special ...
What I don't understand is the logic is enforcing this reissue. To think of it, when an OCI holder enters India, the passport number is recorded on entry and a picture is taken. That database is then updated when the passport number is changed. BOI has all the details on passport change and always t...
I have been travelling for years to India with my minor child without reissue of OCI with no issues at port of entry in India. Last entry however was in 2018.
Looking for any recent experiences as I intend to travel again in Dec
