I hold an OCI card(US citizen) and all my schooling as been in India. Can I write JEE exams as an Indian since i cannot afford NRI fees

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I hold an OCI card(US citizen) and all my schooling as been in India. Can I write JEE exams as an Indian since i cannot afford NRI fees

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Joel Moby Philip 10th Apr, 2019

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SHANMUKHI_1525918212 Student Expert 11th Apr, 2019

Hi Joel,

Since the JEE was split in 2014, the oci cardholders have lost out on the opportunity to sit for the IIT entrance test. Foreign, Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) and Person of Indian Origin (PIO) category students are not eligible for admission to NITs, IIITs, and other centrally-funded institutions through JEE (Main).

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