We are US citizen parents with OCI (We held Indian passports earlier which are surrendered). Our 2 kids, both born in the US have US passports and OCI cards issued in 2008 (daughter) and 2010 (son).
We moved to India in 2010 & didnt renew their passports when they expired in 2013 and 2015 resp. We continued to stay in mumbai till 2018 when we had to visit US in 2018 for office work. That is when we renewed both kids US passports. OCI was not renewed at that time. We travelled to the US with old and new passports and old oci.
Now came back to mumbai in March 2020 using old & new passports & old oci to enter india.
I applied online to renew the kids oci as now its mandatory to renew oci. I went to mumbai FRRO to submit applications for both kids on appointment date. While checking the applications, FRRO guy noticed the gap between the passports ( both kids were in India with their expired passports for few years). He said we first have to regularize their stay before they can accept application for renewing the OCI for them. He said it can be done online.
I checked the FRRO website but not sure where to go & what to do as its all about registration and kids below 12 are not supposed to register. How do I go about regularization of their stay? Any guidance will be of tremendous help as this is very important before I can get their OCI renewed. Please help !
Thanks
Ms Hopeful
We moved to India in 2010 & didnt renew their passports when they expired in 2013 and 2015 resp. We continued to stay in mumbai till 2018 when we had to visit US in 2018 for office work. That is when we renewed both kids US passports. OCI was not renewed at that time. We travelled to the US with old and new passports and old oci.
Now came back to mumbai in March 2020 using old & new passports & old oci to enter india.
I applied online to renew the kids oci as now its mandatory to renew oci. I went to mumbai FRRO to submit applications for both kids on appointment date. While checking the applications, FRRO guy noticed the gap between the passports ( both kids were in India with their expired passports for few years). He said we first have to regularize their stay before they can accept application for renewing the OCI for them. He said it can be done online.
I checked the FRRO website but not sure where to go & what to do as its all about registration and kids below 12 are not supposed to register. How do I go about regularization of their stay? Any guidance will be of tremendous help as this is very important before I can get their OCI renewed. Please help !
Thanks
Ms Hopeful
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