Indian-Chinese Marriage

zahidmaqbool

Hi,

I am an Indian national and I would be getting married to my chinese fiancee this october in india. The visa she is applying to come to india is single entry tourist visa. However, subsequent to our marriage she would be staying with me in india, for which she would be aplpying for a long term visa in India(or whatever it is called in india). I wanted to know what is the procedure for it and can a tourist visa be changed to a longer term visa on marriage grounds..


I would also like to know will my wife be allowed to work in India on this longterm visa??

Thanks in Advance!!!

Alohaguy

Zahid,
Go to Foreigners' Registration office (FRG) in your city and ask them about it. I know that first thing you will have to do is Register your marriage in a court and get Marriage certificate. Take a friend with you because you will need a witness in the court. Then follow up with Foreigners' registration office. About 35 years ago I was in similar situation. I lived in Dehradun then. We did the visa thing in Delhi. My wife is Japanese and we married when she had tourist visa. In my wife's case, a cop had come to our house to verify that she actually lives with me. We had to go to FRG for extension of her visa etc. That was 35 years ago. HOPEFULLY things have changed now and it might be easy for you. You did not ask for it but I can't help but give you one advice: Keep her away from joint family environment. Your life will be sweater!!
Enjoy your love man!!

zahidmaqbool

thanks, alohaguy.. but the problem I am now having is about the employement visa, I find that my spouse wont be able to work in India, she will have to get her employment visa from Beijing, China..Which SUCKS as she will be the wife of an Indian National..

Even if she is here for an year after marriage with me.. she wont get a PIO card as she is a chinese national(I think my assumption here is correct).

Can someome please tell me in detail about the easiest way of getting an employement visa

thanks for all ur help till now

Nick-H

Things have probably not changed much!

First, check out the procedures for marriage under the Special Marriage Act which covers marriages between those of mixed race/religion.

You will need to register your marriage at the Register Office for the area that you live in. You will need to give thirty days notice, and you will require three witnesses.

You should go and talk to your registrar and check the exact requirements. One thing is they like to have a certificate that the foreigner is not married, which many countries simply do not issue!

Once married, your wife can apply for her tourist visa to be changed to an Entry ("X") visa. My experience in doing this in India was a nighmare, although this was partly because I used an agent who screwed up. I got it in London in minutes.

No, she cannot work on an X visa. After you have been married one year she can apply for PIO card, which will allow her to work.

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Nick-H

On the employment visas... yes, usually only available in your country of origin.

However, once your wife has an X visa and a Residents' Permit --- her country of residence will be India!

I don't know what the situation is then.

zahidmaqbool

thanks for u reply nick.. As far as the information I have gathered , I have found out that she wont be able to get a PIO card as she is a chinese national.. Is it true??

mairangi_vice

In order to get an employment visa, you first need a job with an indian company. If your wife can arrange a job with a company willing to go through the drama involved in hiring a foreigner, then she can get an employment visa, which you can extend indefinitely as long as your job contract is extended. She will need to go back to Beijing to get it though.

Nick-H

Sorry, it seems that China is one of the excluded nationalities.

Alohaguy

This site is surely a wealth of information. It is almost like a big family looking after and helping all siblings. Amazing!

Dilliwala

Some of the questions asked here have been covered in another thread. Do take a look, starting here.



Terrible choice of words, Nick. Sounds like it's supposed to govern marriages between 2 people both of whom are of "mixed" race, or both having parents of different religions. The Special Marriages Act has nothing to do with race anyway - it's meant for people of different religions who don't want to get married under any of the other marriage acts which are religion-specific (and where inheritance laws are the issue).

invidious

Well, that depends on the employer asking for your nationality. Which no one bothers to do in India. My friend is of Indian origin but holds a Canadian passport - she's been working with some very big firms and when I asked her if she needs a work permit to work here - she said she didn't know since she had not bothered to get one and no one cared to ask. The conversation ended with me passing some comment about illegal immigrants from Canada stealing Indian jobs.

Dilliwala

Your friend is probably here legally and wud not be an illegal immigrant , unless she has overstayed. With respect to work permit, her employers are breaking the law, unknowingly, becos they presume she is an Indian citizen based on visible ethnicity. She is breaking the law knowingly (she knows she is not a citizen) and about not knowing she needs a work permit, I'm sure I don't need to tell someone like u who's lived in different parts of the world, but u can pass on to your friend, a simple maxim applicable in all jurisdictions - "Ignorance of the law is not an excuse." Next time she changes jobs, suggest to her to get the work-permit.

Nick-H

True! very badly put, indeed. Mixed-nationality marriages might have been more apt, but even that might not specifically true.

I can no longer quote it, but I think it does come in handy for us mis-fits in general.

I don't recall that Mrs N and I had much choice, but I can no longer quote the reasons why.

Dilliwala

It's for 2 people of different religions as I said - even 2 Indians can use it. Also used for people of diff nationalities as in your case, altho I'm not aware there's a ban under e.g. Hindu Marriage Act for 2 Hindus of different nationalities to get married under HMA. Too confusing - which is why most Indians don't bother to get their marriages registered, I suspect!

Nicole Zhang.Jaiswal

[quote=zahidmaqbool;374920]Hi,

I am an Indian national and I would be getting married to my chinese fiancee this october in india.

Hi,This is Nicole,just to say blessing to u guys,,,me,another chineses gal, leaving to Delhi in Nov as well.
to some extent,im facing exactly what u guys r dealing with now.if possilbe,i d like to keep in touch with ur fiancee.we gals probably could hang out together at times,dont u think its a good idea? hehe
anyway,thats a wonderful news of ur wedding on the way