OCI Card

CKGS checklist says marriage certificate has to be apostille, but read the Ministry of External Affairs website, and it clearly states that the document issued by one another country has to be Apostille to submit to another country.

"Apostille:

 India, since 2005, is a member of the Hague Convention of October 5, 1961 that abolished the requirement of legalization of foreign public documents. Apostille is acceptable in 105 member-countries of the Convention (For more info please visit the website:www.hcch.net). Apostille is done for personal documents like birth/death/marriage certificates, Affidavits, Power of Attorney, etc. and educational documents like degree, diploma, matriculation and secondary level certificates etc. Any document Apostilled in one member country is acceptable in all the other 104 member-countries, signatory to the referred convention of 1961 thus greatly simplifying the process of attestation by making it needless to get the documents attested in each or for each of the countries separately. "

My marriage certificate is India, and Indian government issued document signed by the marriage registrar, should not require to be Apostille. My spouse foreign Birth certificate we got that Apostille.

The Checklist is generic and I am assuming that because it is Foreign Spouse, it generates that request automatic.

My OCI was a breeze, and am grateful for that.

My spouses is turning out to be a nightmare.

Anyone been through this before.

Thanks.