India makes the OCI card fully digital

India's Ministry of Home Affairs has launched a fully electronic Overseas Citizen of India (e-OCI) card, moving the whole process — application to download — online at ociservices.gov.in. The change, detailed in early July, affects the roughly 50 lakh (five million) OCI holders worldwide, and is meant to end the headaches of lost or damaged paper booklets and the old requirement to re-stamp the card into each new passport. The Bureau of Immigration says straightforward digital applications should now clear in about 15 working days, down from the previous six-to-eight-week paper process, with the card built into real-time identity checks at airports.