Foreigners lose OCI tag when divorced from Indians, MHA tells HC

与印度人离婚后，外国人将失去印度海外公民身份

NEW DELHI: The Centre has told the Delhi HC that foreigners registered as OCI (overseas citizens of India) cardholders because of their marriage to Indian nationals cease to enjoy that status after their divorce.

新德里：印度中央政府告知德里高等法院，与印度公民结婚而登记为印度海外公民（OCI）的外国人在离婚后不再享有这种身份。

Defending one such decision, the MHA informed the HC that the move of the Indian embassy in Brussels, Belgium, asking a Belgian woman to surrender her OCI card after the dissolution of her marriage with an Indian national was taken due to such a policy.

印度内政部告知高等法院，由于上述政策，印度驻比利时布鲁塞尔大使馆要求一名比利时女子在与一名印度公民解除婚姻关系后交还其OCI卡，内政部支持该决定。

The woman has challenged in the HC the provision of the Citizenship Act — Section 7D(f) — under which a foreign spouse of an Indian national would lose OCI status on divorce. MHA said the Section under challenge makes a clear classification as it applies to foreigners who were registered as OCI cardholders on the strength of their spouse being a citizen of India or an OCI cardholder.

该女子在高等法院对《国籍法》第7D(f)条的规定提出质疑，根据该规定，印度公民的外国配偶在离婚时将失去OCI地位。内政部表示，该条款适用于因配偶是印度公民或OCI持卡人而登记为OCI持卡人的外国人。

MHA said the woman was issued a Person of Indian Origin card by the embassy of India, Brussels, on August 21, 2006 on the basis of her marriage with an Indian national. She legally divorced her husband in October 2011, and the PIO card issued to her on the strength of the marriage should have been cancelled, but it was not done at that time.

内政部表示，2006年8月21日，布鲁塞尔的印度大使馆给一名与印度公民结婚的女子颁发了印度裔卡。她于2011年10月与丈夫合法离婚，因结婚而发给她的PIO卡本应注销，但当时并没有。

An OCI card was inadvertently issued to her in 2017 even though she was not married to an Indian citizen or an OCI cardholder at that time, and now she has been requested to surrender the same.

2017年，尽管她当时未与印度公民保持婚姻关系或与持有OCI卡的人保持婚姻关系，但却意外地收到了一张OCI卡。现在，她被要求上交这张卡。

以下是印度时报读者的评论： 译者：Jessica.Wu

Jose De

She Cheated in her application in 2017. She should not be allowed. When she had divorced she should not have applied for OCI. Simple as that.

她在2017年的OCI申请中作假。离婚后，她就不能申请OCI卡了。

Ekdesi

Overseas Indian embassies issue OCI cards and other documents without checking the facts thoroughly. This is one of such cases.

印度驻外使馆在没有彻底核实事实的情况下签发OCI卡，这只是其中的一个例子。

Krishnamurthy Sridhar

OCI card is a privilage given to persons of Indian origin and their married spouce but cannot be taken as a birthright or a right by marriage after divorce. This litigation is solely due to the Indian Embassys blunder, issuing the OCI card even after this ladys divorce from her Indian origin husband.

OCI卡是印度裔及其配偶享有的特权，但不能被视为与生俱来的权利，也不能被视为离婚后仍享受的权利。

这起诉讼完全是印度大使馆的失误造成的，即使这位女士和她的印度裔丈夫离婚了，使馆还是为其发放了OCI卡。

Pundalika Shenoy

She, probably, knows her ex-husband's assets in India and wish to claim them.

她很可能知道前夫在印度有财产，并希望得到这些财产。

Shasti Brata

Why would the woman be so desperate for an OCI card? Why are the names of the woman and the ex husband not being tevealed?

为什么这个女人如此渴望获得OCI卡?

为什么不披露这个女人和前夫的名字?

WhyYouNeedIt

Missionary intent, could be

可能是传教士

Daisy Nair

EXCELLENT ACTION BY MODI GOVT...HOWEVER CHILDREN IF ANY SHOULD NOT SUFFER

莫迪政府干得好…然而，如果有孩子，孩子不该受牵连

PBUH

if by chance CON dyansty comes to power, there will be no such need. Any muslim who is ready to be a "VOTE BANK" is welcome in to India

如果是国大党执政，就不会这么做了。他们欢迎任何可以充实其票仓的人进入印度

Mangal Nagar

In light of increasing fake marriages, Visa scams and to maintain equitable citizenship policy..

假结婚、签证作假越来越多了…

Dave Dave

Most of the Indian consular work has been contracted to private agency world over

大多数印度领事工作都与世界各地的私人机构签订了合同

Saki Baba

Don't even know why she is fighting. It's easier to get a visa.

Maybe she needs access to Indian court system for pending custody issues.

不知道她为什么要抗争。申请签证进入印度还更容易。

也许她需要进入印度法庭来处理监护权问题。

Sirius

Policy should be case by case basis and not enforce with blind regulations. The foreign woman seems to have valid reasons though.

政策应该根据具体情况制定，而不是盲目地按规定执行。不过，这位外国女子似乎有正当的理由。

Tom Diwan

That is a good move.

做得好

Madmax

Some Indian guys marry in foreign countries and earn a passport & citizenship of that country. Now, if there is a divorce, and that foreign country asks that Indian guy to return the passport and cancel his/her citizenship, then what happens?

一些印度人在国外结婚，获得当地国家的护照和公民身份。如果离婚了，当地国家要求印度人归还护照，取消他/她的国籍，那怎么办?

Deep

Once you become citizen, you become citizen for life. Government can not take it back at will. So does this apply on the status of OCI.

一旦成为一国公民，就终身是该国公民。印度政府不能随意剥夺这种身份，这也适用于OCI身份。

Gumnami Baba

I do not understand why a European cares to have a useless document from India. Just get a tourist visa if you are so desperate.

我不明白为什么一个欧洲人在乎一份没啥用处的印度身份。如果你真那么需要，那就去办个旅游签证吧。

C S

What about indians who leave their wives without divorce?

那些没离婚就离开妻子的印度人呢?

该怎么处置

paksh

MARRIAGE GAVE HER OCI BUT DIVORCE CANT BE PREDICTED HENCE OCI CANT BE TAKEN AWAY FROM THE LADY BECOZ OF UNPREDICTABLE PARAMETER.WHAT IF HER HUSBAND DIED , THEN WOULDHER OCI BE TAKEN AWAY

婚姻赋予她OCI身份，但离婚无法预测，因此不能因为不可预测的因素而取消该女士的OCI身份。如果她的丈夫死了，她的OCI卡会被收走吗？

paksh

DONT COMMENT IF U CANT USE UR BRAINS, PROPERLY

没脑子就别评论

paksh

I THINK ITS WRONG,, , THE DIVORCE OF COUPLE,,HAS NO BEARING ON OCI CARD , AS OCI CARD WAS ISSUED AFTER MARRIAGE,,, ONCE AN OCI,,, THEN IT CANT BE TAKEN BACK , UNESS, CRIMINAL ISSUES OR ILLEGALITY

我认为这是不对的，夫妻离婚与OCI卡没有关系，因为OCI卡是在结婚后签发的，一旦发了OCI卡，就不能收回，除非持卡人有犯罪或违法

Debajyoti Sengupta

OCI card is issued to a foreigner on account of marriage to an Indian. So, the logic says if there is no marriage there is no OCI benefit.

OCI卡是与印度人结婚而发给外国人的。所以，逻辑上说，如果婚姻关系不存在了，就不能享受OCI身份。