It's been official for almost a year, but the idiots at VFS were enforcing it sporadically before that.

I`m off to the FRRO on Thursday to see if they will extend my`x` visa.
Its due to expire early October and I still haven`t found a new house to live in.Doesn`t give me long for getting sorted out and moved even if I do find somewhere soon.

Good luck. Also hope you find somewhere.

We'll be thinking of you! Good luck!

Yes, good luck - it will be very interesting to see what they say. You may want to show them #14 at http://mha.nic.in/pdfs/ForeigD-PwrdlgtFRROs.pdf

cheers - AndyD 8-)#

Good luck, Jill. Keeping everything x'd for you.
fingerscrossed:
Iain

Thanks Andy.

Got some more properties to look at tomorrow s o may delay FRRO until early next week!
It`s feeling a bit "Catch 22" at the mo.......book a flight or try and extend visa!

Hope you find somewhere nice soon Jill -

Dread - x

X visas for people having property in India see #5376

AndyD 8-)₹

i know this topic has been covered over and over but does anyone know what documents you need to take to uk as a property owner in order to get the 1 year X visa??

The Official version is:
1) Since RBI don't issue permission the nearest you can get is a letter from the RBI saying they don't give permissions but 'if you are resident as per FEMA then there is general permission .....' (this used to be pretty much a pro-forma - not sure if it still is but there are copies around).

2) if you own recently built property the builder should have given you a copy of the NOC; for old Portuguese property they seem to accept a letter saying that.

3) If you have registered (pre 2007) then fine; if you have applied for registration then use a copy of the Registrar's receipt; otherwise try a [copy of a] Notarised copy of your deeds (good idea to include that anyway).

If you rent/lease then they seem to accept a copy of the lease and a printout of the FEMA FAQ about 5-year leases being OK for FN's.

ALSO they are currently asking for a sight of old passports (presumably as evidence of 'living in India for many years' - check out the MHA website for 'powers delegated to FRO's' which mentions this - maybe copy that as well). I told them (truthfully) that our old passports were in India but gave a summary of visits for the last few years and mentioned that we first visited India in 1973!!

Allow at least 15 working days to process your visa. GOOD LUCK.

AndyD 8-)₹

P.S. went to register at the FRO in Panjim today - when they asked for a copy of the house deeds I told them they had more copies than I did - so they said hold on that and if we can find it in last year's file we'll use that - gave them last years file ref to help|

I asked about old passports when I recently handed my application in at Hayes and he said that being as there was already an X visa on current passport there was no need for old passports!

thanks for the info its not enough the crap you deal with here and you still have to go through it all in your own country lol

See what you make of this:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/49524844/P...-IVFRT-PROJECT

Regards

H.

Interesting link - I can't quite work out whether 'scribd' just own the site where it was published or were involved in producing it.
It looks like a very close match to the scheme announced by Chidambaram. If it is the same I wonder how it got into the public domain.
As a system specification cum management summary it has the usual faults of assumption and over-simplification which tries to hide under the latest (in this case I suspect it's yesterdays latest) design methodology.
I could go on....and on....
So I'll just say it does at least identify the main problem:
infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure!

AndyD 8-)₹