Visa on Arrival India to Americans but Browns Must Stand in Line at Chanakyapuri!
PIO to Merge in OCI
Modi’s announcement of plans to issue a “visa on arrival” for
U.S. tourists and merge identification documents for non-resident Indians into
a single category.
Under the new rules being
considered, a person of Indian origin will get a lifelong visa for India, Modi said. The so-called PIO card will eventually be
combined with the Overseas Citizen of India or OCI document, removing
differences between the way groups of non-resident Indians were categorized and
issued visas, he said.
Thus Modi
has deriated from the international rule of
reciprocity. Indians have to wait in line at the embassies for visas, specially when they go out for
temporary work in IT industry. Relations of US resident must wait for years
before uniting with the family. Similarly, permanent visas to NRIs will open
the door to the tax dodgers and fugitives from law who take on multiple
citizenship and resident ships to get past the law and evade the claims of
local economy.
India Diaspora
Indian Americans, numbering
about 2.8 million in the U.S., or almost 1 percent of
its population, are one of the country’s fastest-growing ethnic groups,
according to Census Bureau data. The median household income of Indian
Americans is $88,000, compared with $66,000 for other Asians, the organizer
IACF said in a statement.