Deadline for conversion of PIO cards to OCI card till 31 December, 2017

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Deadline for conversion of PIO cards to OCI card till 31 December, 2017

1. All PIO card holders are hereby intimated that there will be no further extension of the deadline i.e.31st December, 2017 for conversion of PIO cards to OCI cards.

2. It may also be noted that as per International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) rules/guidelines (with respect to travel with machine readable travel documents), no hand written travel document will be accepted for travel from October, 2018. All holders of handwritten PIO cards will be refused entry at the Indian Immigration counters and sent back. All PIO card holders are requested that they should convert their PIO cards into OCI cards on gratis (free of charge) basis till 31.12.2017. After 31 December, 2017 their request will attract a fee of USD275 which is same as charged for issuance of fresh OCI card