Overseas Citizenship of India cardholders will need special permission if they wish to take up any journalistic activities in the country, the Ministry of Home Affairs said on Friday. In the new rules for overseas Indians seeking visas, the home ministry has clubbed journalistic activities with those related to the missionaries and the Tablighi sect.
The OCI cardholder will also need permission from the Foreign Regional Registration Office to take up any research work, internship with foreign missions or if they need to visit areas designated as restricted or protected.
Under the new rules, OCI cardholders can now apply for multiple entry lifelong visa for visiting India for any purpose, apart from the activities mentioned above. But the OCI cardholders who are usually Indian residents will have to intimate the Foreigners Regional Registration Officer or the Registration Officer by email whenever there is a change in their permanent residential address and in their…
