Transfer of Residence and PIO Cards

maybe moving

Hello

My family will be moving to Gurgaon in a couple of months. I am a US citizen of indian origin. My husband is a US citizen not of Indian origin and we have been married for 5 years. We will both be working in India.

I plan to apply for a PIO card and my husband should be eligible through me as well. If anyone is familiar with this card, can you please let me know if my husband and I can apply simultaneously? Also, is it definite that we won't need an employment visa? I have seen conflicting information on this.

Secondly, we will move to india for at least 3 years so on a transfer of residence. My husband will be in India when our shipment arrives. Doe she need to have a transfer of residence certificate prior to customs clearance? Where does one apply for this?

Thanks for any information that you can provide!

Vanita

Nick-H

Hope the following thoughts are helpful...

1. For those of Indian Origin who qualify, OCI may well be a better deal than PIO. It is lifelong, and you do not even have to register as a foreigner. You might want to check that out.

2. Whichever you go for, if you are planning to leave in a couple of months, you had better hurry. It can be very quick. Or not...

3. You can work in India as a PIO-card holder. The only additional restriction is the necessity to register as a foreigner. The registration certificate is quite useful with stuff like banks... and customs officers.

4. I'm not sure that there is a TR certificate. All my shipping and clearance was handled by an agent (best way to do it: door to door, you never need set foot in the port) so they may have done some paperwork I wasn't aware of, but all I remember is telling them our intention and letting them get on with it. They needed my resident's permit and passport with a long-term visa (ie not tourist) and did the biz. There is an endorsement from customs in my passport.

RWeHavingFunYet

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Definitely, get a OCI. It is lifelong and cheaper (I wonder why? )

Read this ==> pIo vs oCi

Groovemeister

There's definitely some paperwork - we used an agent as well through my company but there were several forms we had to sign that they then filled in on our behalf. Only one I had to complete was one detailing what was in the shipment and when it was bought as some things are not covered under ToR (though thankfully all of my stuff was excise free!).

The company we used at this end was Writer Relocations. They were ok. Everything arrived several weeks after the date they had initially intimated - but I guess that was just good preparation for the status quo in India!