Consulate General of India
Hambantota
NEW OCI REGULATIONS
1. The existing requirement to re-issue an OCI card each time a new passport is issued to a foreigner up to 20 years of age and once after completing 50 years of age is dispensed with.
2. However, an OCI card holder shall have to get the OCI card re-issued once when a new passport is issued after completing 20 years of age so as to capture her/his facial features on attaining adulthood.
3. For this purpose the OCI cardholder shall submit an online application under OCI Miscellaneous Services with a fee of Sri Lankan Rs 5600 (Rupees Five thousand six hundred only).
4. After submission of application, uploading of requisite documents and payment of fee, the applicant will have to visit the Assistant High Commission of India in Kandy along with original documents for verification of documents.
5. An OCI cardholder may upload a copy of the new passport containing the photo of the passport holder and also a latest on the online system under OCI Miscellaneous Services each time a new passport is issued up to 20 years of age and once after completing 50 years of age.
6. These documents may be uploaded by the OCI cardholder within three months of receipt of the new passport.
7. This service will be provided on gratis basis.
8. In the case of those who have been registered as OCI cardholder as spouse of foreign origin of a citizen of India or spouse of foreign origin of an OCI cardholder under section 7A (1) (d) of the Citizenship Act, 1955, the OCI cardholder shall upload a copy of the new passport containing the photo of the passport holder and also a latest on the online system under OCI Miscellaneous Services each time a new passport is issued.
9. In such cases, the OCI cardholder and her/ his Indian spouse or OCI cardholder spouse will have to give a declaration that their marriage is still subsisting.
10. Copy of the Indian passport of the Indian spouse /passport and OCI card of the OCI cardholder spouse shall also be uploaded in such cases.
11. These documents may be uploaded by the OCI cardholder foreigner spouse within three months of receipt of his/her new passport.
12. This service will be provided on gratis basis.
13. Immediately on uploading of the documents mentioned above, an email will be auto sent by the system to the OCI cardholder confirming that the documents have been successfully uploaded.
14. An acknowledgment through email will also be automatically sent to the OCI cardholder informing that the updated details have been taken on record.
15. There will be no restriction on the OCI cardholder to travel to/from India during the period from the date of issue of new passport till the date of final acknowledgment of her/his documents in the online system.
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