Revamped Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) portal launched
Union Home Minister Amit Shah launched a revamped Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) portal in New Delhi on 19 May 2025 for over 5 million existing OCI cardholders and new users, at the existing URL ociservices.gov.in.
Summary
Union Home Minister Amit Shah launched the new Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) portal in New Delhi on 19 May 2025. Developed by the Ministry of Home Affairs in view of technological advances and feedback from OCI cardholders, the revamped portal has an updated user interface, enhanced functionality and improved security to make registration seamless. It serves the existing over 5 million OCI cardholders and new users and remains at the existing URL, https://ociservices.gov.in.
Key facts
- Launched
- 19 May 2025, New Delhi, by Home Minister Amit Shah
- Ministry
- Home Affairs
- Users
- Over 5 million existing OCI cardholders + new users
- URL
- ociservices.gov.in (unchanged)
Practice MCQs 2 questions
The revamped Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) portal launched in May 2025 serves over how many existing OCI cardholders?
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Correct answer: B — 5 million
The new portal serves over 5 million existing OCI cardholders and new users.
The revamped Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) portal launched in May 2025 was developed by which ministry?
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Correct answer: D — Ministry of Home Affairs
The revamped OCI portal was developed by the Ministry of Home Affairs and launched by Union Home Minister Amit Shah.