Can OCI Live in India Forever?

AS Posted by: Aastha sankhla
• 28 June, 2025
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Yes, OCI cardholders can live in India because it allows them to enter India lifelong. They can get multiple entries with an OCI card or can live in India for an indefinite period.

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  • Kunal Bhasin 05 July, 2025

    Yes, you can get a lifetime visa if you have an OCI card. It allows you to live, work, or study in India for indefinite purposes. OCI cardholders must ensure that their passport is updated. It is a crucial document for those living in India, but it has some restrictions in public offices, agriculture, and farming lands.

  • Nivedita Rane 03 July, 2025

    Any person who has an OCI card can live in India permanently because the OCI card provides a lifetime free visa to travel in Indian. There are many benefits that you can enjoy with an OCI card, like no need to report your stay to the local authorities or police, getting same financial, educational, and economic benefits like the Indian citizens, getting same fares in the local flights, can visit to the national parks, wildlife scanturies at the same price as Indian citizens.

  • Divya Chauhan 02 July, 2025

    Yes, an OCI person can live in India for work or living purposes, but for this, you need to have a valid passport to stay in India. If their passport expired while living in Indian, then they have to get it regularized with FRRO, for which you need to pay fines.

  • Ayush Arora 01 July, 2025

    Yes, you can live in India if you have an OCI card. OCI card allows you to stay in India for work and living purposes. However, you can't own agricultural or plantation land, hold any public office, or participate in elections with an OCI because these care only for the Indian citizens, and an OCI card does not provide you with citizenship.

  • Smita Bhargava 30 June, 2025

    Overseas Citizens of India can live in indian for an indefinite time. As per the new guidelines released by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. They are allowed to work and live in indian permanently. However, owning an OCI card does not give them Indian citizenship.

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