{"id":13512,"date":"2014-10-10T08:48:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T08:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=13512"},"modified":"2014-10-10T08:48:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T08:48:45","slug":"home-ministry-makes-pio-card-valid-for-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=13512","title":{"rendered":"Home Ministry Makes PIO Card Valid for Lifetime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads4\/2014-10-10_10-44-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New Delhi:  In line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s recent announcement, the Home Ministry has issued a notification that a &#8220;Person of Indian Origin (PIO) card&#8221; shall be valid for a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>The instruction was issued yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the ministry said that all PIO cards issued before September 30, 2014 &#8220;are automatically deemed to have life time validity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, PM Modi, while addressing 18,000 Indian Americans and NRIs at New York&#8217;s Madison Square Garden venue, declared that those with PIO cards would have lifetime visas and would no longer need to report periodically to a police station while in India. The announcement was met with cheers and applause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads4\/2014-10-10_10-45-10.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\"\/><strong>By ndtv.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> In line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s recent announcement, the Home Ministry has issued a notification that a &#8220;Person of Indian Origin (PIO) card&#8221; shall be valid for a lifetime. On Sunday, PM Modi, while addressing 18,000 Indian Americans and NRIs at New York&#8217;s Madison Square Garden venue, declared that those with PIO cards would have lifetime visas and would no longer need to report periodically to a police station while in India. The announcement was met with cheers and applause.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iskcon-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13514,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13512\/revisions\/13514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}