https://www.indianeagle.com/travelbeats/coronavirus-india-revised-travel-advisory/ Indian American Community Magazine Sun, 22 Mar 2020 17:28:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.5 https://www.indianeagle.com/travelbeats/coronavirus-india-revised-travel-advisory/#comment-1968 Sun, 22 Mar 2020 17:28:50 +0000 https://www.indianeagle.com/travelbeats/?p=25161#comment-1968 I am an OCI card holder, the accompanying visa was stamped in an old Australian passport, since cancelled, and I have not had it transferred to new passport partly because I now also have a US passport and often travel on this passport (e.g. on US government sponsored stints in India). Occasionally I also go and come from Australia (family and some work still there). I am over 65. We were told to have OCI visas transferred to current passport if one has passed 55 years(or some such arbitrary age). I had traveled back and forth to India from June 2019 to January 2020 with no difficulty but the new Citizenship Act in one reading makes it mandatory that the OCI visa should be in a non-expired passport. It is unclear if this applies to OCI cardholders of all ages or those who have passed the threshold of 50 or 55. Does anyone have a clear idea? I had plans to go to India (OCI cell in New Delhi is where I got my OCI application through) to have the transfer processed (onto my current Australian passport not the US one); will the deadline for that be extended under the present circumstances and threat of coronavirus? This is not exactly the situation of a visa expiring, but the deadline set by the Home Ministry for quite an extraordinary measure that defies reason.

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