From being a driver for an American diplomat, he rose to the rank of Security Investigator with the American Consulate in Mumbai.
From being a driver for an American diplomat, he rose to the rank of Security Investigator with the American Consulate in Mumbai. However, Mumbai-born Satish Nambiar, 57, has now lost his job as the Indian government has cancelled his life-long visa and Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) registration card without giving any reasons.
Nambiar has moved the Bombay High Court challenging the Union Home Ministry’s February 14 order cancelling his visa and OCI card and asking him to surrender the documents within 15 days. The matter is likely to be heard on Friday.
Nambiar, who studied at the St Teresa’s High School in Girgaum, worked as a driver for an American diplomat between 1973 and 1976 after which he was employed as a driver with the United States Information Services at Churchgate.
He was transferred to the US Consulate in 1982 and due to his “good service and intelligence” he was appointed as Security Investigator in 1985. In 1999, he received a Special Immigrant Visa to migrate to the USA. He moved to America with his wife Sampada and worked with various private establishments. However, he and wife continued visiting his sick mother-in-law, who refused to leave Mumbai.
Worried about his 81-year-old mother-in-law’s health, Nambiar decided to move back to Mumbai and applied for the OCI registration card in April 2006. In May 2006, he was granted the OCI card and life-long Visa. In May he applied for a job at the American Consulate in Mumbai and in June he was appointed as Site Security Investigator.
However, with his Visa and OCI card being cancelled, Nambiar has been asked to resign from his post.
Nambiar, who has no criminal record, is perplexed at the government’s move. The petition lists five reasons stated in the Citizenship Act, 1955, which may lead to the cancellation of the OCI card.
The cancellation order issued to him states no reasons and visits to the Ministry of Home Affairs in New Delhi too have drawn a blank. He states in his petition that the government’s “arbitrary” act has put his credentials in doubt due to which he has had to resign from his job.
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