India Entry and Sustenance Services as a Foreign Company

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Foreign investors can enter the Indian market by registering themselves as foreign company. We offer these foreign investors India Entry and Sustenance Services as a Foreign Company.These companies have to operate by establishing a liaison office or representative office, a project office, and a branch office. We are known for the effective and timely delivery of our services to our customers. We provide effective support to these companies by helping them go smoothly through the registration process with the Registrar of Companies (ROC) within 30 days of setting up a place of business in India.

Liaison office/ Representative office:

• Liaison office is a communication channel between the head office of a company its entities in other countries. The approval of its establishment in India is granted by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

Some of the important facts about this are as follows:

• It cannot carry out any commercial or trading activity
• Its limited role is to collect information about possible market opportunities and provide information about the company to its potential customers in India
• It is qualified for promotion of export/import from/to India
• It can also facilitate technical/financial collaboration between two companies in India

Project Office:

To execute specific projects in India, Foreign Companies have an option of setting up temporary project/site offices in India. The general permission for this is granted by the RBI after taking care of the specified conditions. Following are the scope of activities of a project office:

• These cannot undertake any commercial activity other than execution of the project
• The surplus of the project executed can be remitted outside India, only after general permission granted by the RBI

Branch Office:

Foreign companies can embark their operations in India by setting up a branch office for purposes like:

• Export/import of goods
• Rendering professional or consultancy services
• Carrying out research work, in which the parent company is engaged
• Promoting technical or financial collaborations between Indian companies and parent or overseas group company
• Representing the parent company in India and acting as buying/selling agents in India
• Rendering services in information technology and development of software in India
• Rendering technical support to the products supplied by the parent/ group companies
• Foreign airline/shipping company