mangal969 said:NRI's,by definition are people with Indian passports.Until now PIO's were not recognised as "Indians" i.e once you give up your Indian passport you are not recognised as an Indian in any manner shape or form.
As far as i know the priority list is as follows:
1.Both Indians living in India
2.Atleast one parent Indian,living in India
3.Both parents NRI living abroad with intent to return to India
4.Both parents NRI with no intent of moving back to India
5.One parent NRI living abroad with intent to return to India
6.One parent NRI with no intent of moving back to India
7.Foreigners with intent to live in India
8.Foreigners with no intent to live in India
The list sounds pretty silly i know ("Intent to live in India"???).Of course all adoption cases are reviewed on a case by case basis.You may be on preference no 8 but in the absence of other applicants you may get your application approved.However the lower down the list you go the more difficult and time consuming it gets.
For OIC/PIO they are so far silent on the issue.But as a working hyopthesis if OIC/PIO's are granted parity with NRI's (as they have said), an OIC couple would fall under priorities 3-6.If they do not recognise this i guess the couple would be between 6 and 7 (preferred over absolute foreigners).
CARA's guidelines are listed at:
http://www.cara.nic.in/carahome.html
Indian Embassy also has a lot of info at:
http://www.indianembassy.org/consular/Adoption/index.html
There're only two sections on CARA's webpage that deals with the adoption information. These are under In-country adoptions and Inter-country adoptions.
For the preferences, they list only 4 categories:
The placement agencies are required to adhere the following order of priority while considering the adoption of Indian children:
1. Indian families in India.
2. Indian families abroad.
3. One parent of Indian origin abroad.
4. Totally foreign.
There is no mention anywhere about NRI/PIO/OIC or what passport people hold and where they intend to live. For example, if you go by the definition of NRIs as people with Indian passport and say US green cards, then an international adoption is nearly impossible. You can off course adopt in India as an Indian, but cannot process the immigration paperwork for the child to come to the US. If at least 1 parent is a US citizen, then the child gets the immigration paperwork done immidiately, otherwise the parents have to show 2 yrs of custody and residency together with the child to be able to apply for the US immigration, and then wait another 3+ years for the child's green card. In the meantime, the parents cannot maintain their green cards beyond 2 years even with the re-entry permit. So there is a catch-22 here.
The current guidelines were updated in 2003, prior to that Indians living abraod, aks NRIs in general, with either Indian or foreign passport, were treated on par with the Indians for in-country adoptions. So far I have not seen anything on OICs status relating to this subject. May be our bureaucrates have saved it for OIC V.2.0.
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