Under the AADHAAR (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act 2016:
- Resident means an individual (any nationality) who has resided in India for a period or periods amounting in all to 182 days or more in 12 months immediately preceding the date of application for enrolment.
Under Sec 139 AA Subsequent notification, all PAN Card holders, who are NRI under the Income Tax Act 1961 are:
- Supposed to link their AADHAAR Card with PAN, if they hold the AADHAAR Card.
- If they do not hold the AADHAAR Card, they are exempted from the requirement of linking it with the PAN Card of Income Tax.
- As per AADHAAR Act, NRI OCI are not eligible to obtain AADHAAR Card, hence are fully exempted to produce AADHAAR for any verification.
