Immigration

What is OCI (Overseas Citizenship of India) OCI (Overseas Citizenship of India) is a lifelong visa granted to foreign citizens of Indian origin. If you are an Indian citizen with a child born in a jus soli country, like the USA or Mexico, your child is eligible for OCI card. OCI gives your child the right to visit, live, study, and work in India for an unlimited time. Why get an OCI Many parents thought that an Indian e-visa was enough for their child to visit India. And that was true, and then came COVID-19. ...

The US president has spoken favorably of H1-B and has promised a Green card for all US graduates. So, the only way to explain this Executive Order roping in legal immigrants is that no one in Washington DC properly understands how discriminatory the current green card system is for the Indian nationals.

While traveling in the streets of Cairo or Qahira/क़ाहिरा, I came across a group of Indians who didn’t look like tourists.

My flight from Los Angeles to San Francisco was overbooked. There was a generous voucher to take for a volunteer who was willing to take the next flight. The next flight was scheduled for the next day in the morning! I wondered why not take a bus through the California hinterlands instead. So, I volunteered. At the bus station’s waiting area, an Indian-looking man walked towards me. Before I could say something, he asked me in Hindi where I was from. “Haryana”, I replied, assuming he was an Indian. He didn’t recognize it. “That’s beyond west Punjab”, he asked further in Hindi. “Yes”, I replied. ...

“I need the address.”, the immigration official shouted at her, as she, a septuagenarian Indian woman, with her limited English, repeatedly, pointed to the paper containing the phone number of her daughter.