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How Can You Get PCC from Local Police Station in India?

How Can You Get PCC from Local Police Station in India?

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Police clearance certificate (PCC) is issued for safeguarding the interest of non-residents of India and the country where you are emigrating to. If you consider the data of such emigrants in the USA, these are 85,000 applicants who apply to go there every year. The purpose can be tour or travel, study, job or some other reasons.

This kind of verification is essential for those who seek for a long-term visa. This is mainly asked for employment or job or research or higher studies in the foreign. Those who want to fly down there for touring abroad, they don’t need it.

Steps to Get PCC Online from Local Station in India

  • Browse the link of local police station in the name of the state, such as Delhi, Kerala etc.
  • Select Police Clearance Certificate from its services.
  • Get registered with the email id.
  • Receive & submit a verification code on the registered email id.
  • A “New User Register Here” option will be there to select.
  • Select from “individual” for a particular person and “organisation” for the whole firm.
  • Login with the email id and password.
  • Put your mobile phone number there.
  • Enter security code popping on the screen.
  • Sign up by clicking on the tab with the same caption.
  • Filter the option “Application Form For PCC By An Indian”. The form will pop up.
  • Read instructions carefully. For example, Delhi police website reads about field verification in 7 working days for emigration and 21 days for employment. It also shows warning that the certificate will be cancelled without any notice if found being misused.
  • Provide all details required in the fields of the form.
  • Select PCC type as Emigration (if you want to go abroad for any reason) or Employment (if you want to study abroad).
  • Upon filling all necessary details like name, address and many other ones, upload your photograph (applicant’s picture) in JPEG format. It should not be more than 20 KB.
  • Like picture, upload the scanned proof of your address and the letter of agency that requires PCC. The letter should be 200KB or less in JPEG format.
  • If you live on the rent, attach its agreement. This should also be under 200KB in the JPEG format.
  • Hit the “reviews” tab and save your online application.
  • Redirect to payment gateway, where you need to pay the requisite fee.
  • Now, you can have a PCC number, flashing on the screen. Save it for future reference.

Checklist of Documents to Support PCC Application

  • Photograph
  • Rent Agreement, if you live on the rent
  • Letter of Agency, if it is sought for employment
  • Address Proof, if you have any permanent address

The police department can ask for any other document, if needed to verify your identity and purpose.

Steps to Get PCC from the Local Police Station in India Physically or In-Person

  • Collect all documents in the checklist.
  • Visit the local police station near you.
  • The police officer will enquire about the purpose while running a brief background check.
  • He will ask for self-attested supporting documents.
  • Pay the requisite fee in cash or through a certified cheque.

NRIs to Follow This Procedure

If you are an NRI, it’s hard to come down here just to follow the procedure. In such a condition, you need to apply with the Embassy. These steps can help you to get off hassles:

  • Visit the consulate official.
  • Fill the police verification for to apply.
  • Show up all supporting documents, which have been self-attested.
  • Pay the requisite amount as a service charge to get it verified and attested by the police.
  • Upon verification, the application will be approved and the certificate will be issued from India.

How Long Should You Wait for Its Delivery?

If your application and supporting documents do not show any discrepancy, you can get it on the same day from the local police station. But if there are some, you have to get to the concerned authority of the document, like adhaar card or voter id, for correcting the mistakes in them. This correction can take a week or more. So, you should first check your documents and then, visit the station.

Embassy can deliver it in a fortnight or a month, depending on the accuracy of the form and documents.

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MEA Attests Originals, Not Photocopies of NRIs Documents

MEA Attests Originals, Not Photocopies of NRIs Documents

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If you are going to emigrate, you need to attest your documents. This step is a crucial step. You cannot get off from it because the immigration departments of any country want to determine whether the document is genuine and legal. So, you need to go through document attestation.

This procedure has different levels, which the emigrants have to pass through step by step. Let’s have a look over what these levels are:

Different Levels of Attestation in India

  • District or Sub-Divisional Magistrate of District
  • Home Department of The State Government
  • Ministry of External Affairs of the Central Government

MEA Verifies These Facts

  • The originality of documents
  • Authentic signature of Indian officials on docs
  • Different level of departments’ stamp

Attest Originals, Not Photocopies

The verifying authority prefers the originals to be stamped on the reverse of those documents. Sometimes, the originals are found laminated, the authorized agency removes it to get it attested. Sometimes, your originals get damaged in this process, which you cannot reverse. So, you should be ready to withdraw the new ones in that case.

What if you lose originals?

There are some instances when you may lose or damage your educational certificates or degrees or diplomas. Rather than wondering, you should immediately lodge a complaint for the education certificates being lost. Do mention the reason in the FIR. Indian states have this facility available over their police website in the local area. If you want to file that FIR,

  • Access the website.
  • Put your email id and contact details there.
  • Write the complaint of the certificates being lost.
  • Hit the “Submit” tab.

A reference number will be sent on your registered email id that you have mentioned there. This will also have a copy of the FIR so that you can directly save and get its print out for submitting with the application to withdraw the new original certificates from the university or school. This FIR does not require any stamp or signature to be enclosed with the application.

Applicant’s Information is Protected

The personal and educational certificates contain sensitive information, which is valuable. The hackers often look for this kind of accurate information to take away and sell at a good price in the market. There are just four agencies that have been authorized to collect applications for attestation on the behalf of the government. This is done to keep your personal identifiable information safe and secure in the robust IT network, where breaching is hard to carry out. This is how the competent agencies ensure no loss of personally identifiable information.

Is Notary Stamp Compulsory?

The red coloured seal is called the notarization stamp. It’s not necessary to have on your documents, as it has no value on educational certificates.

However, it becomes important in the cases of getting CENOMAR or marriage certificate. This is done by a notary public, an authority in the court, to identify if the applicant is telling the truth or not. The notary discovers fakeness through a volley of questions about the certificates and face expressions.

Fingerprint Scan Attestation

It is significant that the applicant would visit the embassy in person, where his scanned fingerprint data are collected at the time of visa interview. This is done to match them with the fingerprints scan at the airport entrance. The airport authority does it to prevent the misuse of visa.

One point that one should always keep into account is that no third party can ever submit scanned fingerprints on your behalf. You have to go on your own.

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Revised Definition & Marriage Provisions of NRIs in India

Revised Definition & Marriage Provisions of NRIs in India

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The status of an NRI has been revised by the union government of India in 2019. It has changed the way government categorises non-residents. These changes are introduced make tax liabilities of non-residents crystal clear. But, these amendments are affecting the marriage act and other contextual legislations for them also. While presenting the budget, the finance minister announced this new categorization:

This revising can affect the need to have CENOMAR for NRIs or some other documents that one has to present for employment, marriage and study in foreign. They have to keep this revision in mind before taking any step in the future. Those who might be thinking that they are stateless citizen and don’t have to show single status certificate for wedding in foreign, for example, would have to rethink about it.

An individual is a resident of India if:

  1. He has spent 182 days or more here in the financial year.
  2. He has spent 60 days or more here in the financial year and the total count of days in the earlier four financial years is 365 days or more.

Amendment for PIOs

The Indian citizens and Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) are relieved from the second condition. It means that the second condition is not valid in their case. So, they can stay longer here without being liable to pay tax on the world income.

Another crucial change is for PIOs. At present, the PIO is considered as a non resident if his stay here is less than 182 days. But since 2019, this rule has been amended. Now, that stay period has been reduced from 182 to 120 days. Consequently, the Indian citizens or PIOs who live here for at least 120 days would become the resident of India.

Amendment for Stateless Indian Citizens

The stateless Indian citizens are a high net worth individuals, who skip the status of being liable to pay tax in India or any other country. Such individuals manage their stay in a particular country in such a wonderful way that they cannot be categorized as a resident of that country. Our legislation calls them the stateless Indian citizens.

Now, the amendment states that such stateless people will be Indian citizens. Simply put, the new Finance Bill proposes that an Indian who is not liable to be taxed in any country for being a domicile will be Indian resident.

Not Ordinary Resident (NOR)

This is who has citizenship of India, but his foreign income is not chargeable to tax here unless the source of income is a business controlled from India/ profession set up in India. Therefore, individuals of this category ca manage their affairs before their foreign income turns taxable here.

There are certain conditions that one has to fulfill, which is that he/ she must be a non-resident for at least 7 out of 10 previous financial years.

The case as, his/ her total stay here should not be more than 730 days in the preceding seven financial years, won’t exist now.  Now, such individuals who have been enjoying the status of an NRI for 10 years or more will be NOR for four years.

Marriage Provisions

Those who are already planning to get married in the foreign, now the aforementioned categorization can help them to collect supporting documents accordingly. Here are a few provisions that have been newly introduced in 2019. NRIs should keep them into account before getting marriage here:

  • Registration

Registration of NRIs marriage is must now. They have just 30 days after the marriage to get marriage certificate from the local SDM office. If the marriage is solemnized outside of India, the rule will be same. It would be registered with a marriage officer who would be appointed from among the diplomatic officers in foreign.

  • Impounding of Passport

The amendment in the Passport Act, 1967 states if the NRI doesn’t register the marriage within stipulated period, his/ her passport may be confiscated or revoked.

  • Summons and Warrants

Currently, the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC) allows issuance of summons and warrants. This Bill adds a section to the CrPC to state that regardless of other provisions in the CrPC, if a court finds that that summons could not be served to a person physically or the person does not appear before the court, it may put the summons on the designated website of the Ministry of External Affairs.

  • Post Warrants

When the proclamation is up on the site, it would be the conclusive evidence that the warrant has been issued & served. The court may order the proclaimed offender to enclose the property.

This is how the non-residents should be aware about the registration of marriage here, as they need to know about the bachelorhood certificate to solemnize in abroad. It would be a precautionary step to stop bigamy or polygamy or marital frauds with Indian girls.

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