Important Note:- Phasing out of Non-Machine Readable/hand written PIO cards, it conversion into machine readable OCI cards(booklet form) for travel to India from October, 2018.

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Important Note:- Phasing out of Non-Machine Readable/hand written PIO cards, it conversion into machine readable OCI cards(booklet form) for travel to India from October, 2018.

PIO card holders, as you are aware that the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has set a deadline of October, 2018 for globally phasing out all non-Machine Readable Travel Documents and will accept only machine readable travel documents.Hence the existing PIO card, which is hand written and non-machine readable become invalid.

Thus, it will be necessary upon PIO card holders to obtain machine readable OCI cards in the form of booklet, which is valid for travel to India in lieu of existing hand written/non-machine readable PIO cards before October, 2018 to avoid any inconvenience