{"id":33840,"date":"2026-06-06T05:09:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T05:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2026\/06\/06\/indian-consulate-in-houston-holds-informative-session-on-oci-insights-indo-american-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T05:09:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T05:09:59","slug":"indian-consulate-in-houston-holds-informative-session-on-oci-insights-indo-american-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2026\/06\/06\/indian-consulate-in-houston-holds-informative-session-on-oci-insights-indo-american-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Consulate in Houston Holds Informative Session on OCI Insights \u2013 Indo American News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOUSTON: The Indian Consulate in Houston is actively working to connect with the Indian community and provide essential consular services. Recently, the Consulate organized a Special Consular Information Session focused on Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) applications on Saturday, May 30, 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The event aimed to offer clear information about the OCI application process, documentation needed, and to answer any common questions attendees might have. Participants also had the opportunity to ask consular officials directly for any clarifications.<\/p>\n<p>The Consulate appreciates the community leaders who participated and supported this important outreach. For those who couldn\u2019t attend, updated OCI instructions can be found in the attached flyer. This includes key details, such as the need to reissue OCI cards when turning 20, how to update them online, and the process for linking OCI to a new passport.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone has additional questions, they can scan the QR code included in the flyer to submit their inquiries.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON: The Indian Consulate in Houston is actively working to connect with the Indian community and provide essential consular services. Recently, the Consulate organized a Special Consular Information Session focused on Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) applications on Saturday, May 30, 2026. The event aimed to offer clear information about the OCI application process, documentation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indian-diaspora-in-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}