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    Item No 2 in your comaprisons:

    Please do not confuse people. It is very clearly mentioned in goverment sites that there is no dual citizenship. A law in that favor has not yet been passed. From time to time, however, Indian authorities and some agencies confuse people with their talking and writing (even naming the card as "OCI" card) to give people an impression that dual citizenship or “something like that” is included in the card. What is "...current country of citizenship must allow some form of dual citizenship mentioned in your site? Indian OCI card has no value for the current country of citizenship to act on what they want to do with Indians or others. It should be clearly written in your site that it is has nothing to do with citizenship but each card has certain limits on what a foreigner can do in India. It is that simple to explain but it is the nature of Indians to say or add something else to confuse people. Please stop this practice.
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    We are simply a private web site and are not associated with any government.

    We clearly know that OCI is NOT dual citizenship. We have mentioned this on every single page of our OCI section at /oci-card/ The very first sentence on our web site is a clarification that OCI is NOT dual citizenship. Even read the second paragraph.

    However, in order to be eligble to get OCI, the person's current country of citizenship must allow some kind of dual citizenship, even though Indian constitution does NOT allow dual citizenship and OCI is NOT same as Indian citizenship. That weird rule has been made by Government of India and not by us.
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      I think your website was created for the public when you realized there were plenty of confusions in understanding the OCI card. It was important because many people believed it would allow dual citizenship. Indian government and its different agencies also confused the general public (as usual) with OCI wording and more than one explanations. In your site I found this very confusing wording:
      "However, in order to be eligible to get OCI, the person's current country of citizenship must allow some kind of dual citizenship...."
      You repeated it in your message again. There is no such requirement for OCI application that "the current country must allow some kind of dual citizenship". For instance, many American citizens of Indian origin do not want to become an Indian citizen but they still apply for OCI card. It is just another visa card to visit India with more options. When you put this topic for someone to understand the difference between OCI and other visa forms, you should have clearly stated that it was not an application for dual citizenship. It was essential to explain that OCI cardholder was not an Indian citizen or "some kind of dual citizen" of India. I suggested it, when I noticed your site did a better job than many others in comparing different visa cards.
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        We didn't create the web site just for OCI. Our web site has been in existence since 1999, much longer before OCI came in existence.

        We have never suggested anyone that OCI is dual citizenship. We have always clarified to everyone that it is NOT. Therefore, I don't understand your point of argument. India does not allow dual citizenship and we understand it very well.
        We have clarified it very well at /oci-card/ and I am not sure what part you don't understand about it. Have you read anything there, especically the 'Overview' section?

        Regarding the statement, "However, in order to be eligible to get OCI, the person's current country of citizenship must allow some kind of dual citizenship...." that requirement has been mentioned (now or in the past) at the Indian embassy/consulate web sites in the U.S. We didn't come up with that on our own. India requires that other country allow dual citizenship but India itself does not give simultaneous Indian citizenship to someone who is already foreign citizenship, a weird requirement indeed.

        I would also like to know on what basis you can say with authority that there is no such requirement for sure. I would like to know who you are, what your designation is and what your authority is to make such authoritative statements.
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