Q.857 OCI Transfer to New US Passport

Question: Hello, My wife and I just got a new passport s(US Citizen) and we have OCI visa in my old passport. Do we need to transfer our OCI to our new passport?. I am 76 years old and my wife is 71 years. We got the OCI vista about 5 years before. Thanks, Sincerely, Bala Bathey [February 18, 2016] Answer: There is no requirement now to transfer OCI visa to New Passport. Please see article titled ‘Recent changes announced by the Government of India’ and scroll down to the heading ‘No Requirement to Transfer OCI Visa to New Passport’ Am adding a link to the page for your convenience http://nriinformation.com/oci_pio_merge.html

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