New Delhi: Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday launched a revived portal for India’s foreign nationals (OCI), which will offer existing 5 million OCI card holders as well as fresh applicants, which will facilitate a user friendly experience in reaching OCI services and their comfortable migration in India.Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the initiative in a post on X, saying that “with increased characteristics and better functionality, the new OCI portal takes a big step forward in promoting civil-friendly digital rule”.Speaking at the launch event here, Shah said that India under the leadership of PM Modi is constantly making efforts to provide world -class immigration facilities to its OCI card holders. He said that the OCI portal would be an updated user interface to simplify the registration process for OCIS.The Home Minister emphasized that Indian -origin citizens living in various countries around the world should not face any inconvenience while going or living in India “.The new OCI portal attempts to address existing boundaries and increase user experience, depending on significant technological progress and reaction from OCI card holders in the last decade.The portal allows features like sign up; OCI registration forms the auto-filing of user profile details; Integrated online payment gateway; And classification of eligibility criteria and uploaded to be uploaded, depending on the application type. The applicant may edit information in the form before the final submission. There will be frequently asked questions (FAQ) to guide the applicants – who can register for OCI cards, which have been closed in 2019 with individuals of Indian origin (PIO) cards, and lost Pio cards. The portal will display a dashboard in which the details of the full and partially filled applications will be displayed.Refurbished OCI is upgraded to software and platforms in the platform and has increased the security protocol including encryption to ensure data privacy. The new cyber-safety enhancement includes multi-factor authority. Foreign nationals of india (OCI) The scheme was introduced through an amendment in the Citizenship Act, 1955 in 2005. It provides for the registration of individuals of Indian origin (PIOS) as OCI, provided that he was a citizen of India on or after 26 January 1950, or was eligible to become a citizen on that date. However, people who were or were citizens of the parents or grandparents of Pakistan or Bangladesh, or grandparents, are not characters.The current OCI services portal was developed in 2013 and currently operates in 12 Frros with over 180 Indian missions abroad, which processes about 2,000 applications per day.
