Did not need an OCI card to visit Goa as the Government of India had last year issued me a five-year multiple entry e-visa. That long winded struggle for an OCI card was because of my firm belief that it was a right which by law I was entitled to. I did not want my roots translocated from my birth land Goa in which they have been deeply entrenched for over six long decades. Holders of an OCI card are allowed to pursue various professions in India. Doctors and dentists including nurses and pharmacists, architects, chartered accountants and advocates are all allowed to carry on with their profession with an OCI card. Also entitled to be appointed on the teaching faculty of IITs, IIMs and central universities. Infact an OCI card holder virtually has all rights as an Indian citizen except that he has no voting rights, unable to contest elections, cannot own agricultural land and is not eligible to be appointed to government positions. It may have been a very strenuous process involving a great ordeal to obtain my OCI card but a lot of people have now become aware of what an OCI card is all about.
