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Outside India

The law is Indian. The person it governs is often not here. These pages arrange the practice areas, sectors and advocates on this site by the reader they concern, and set out, for each region and for sixteen countries, the time difference to India and how a document signed there is accepted here. The practice advises on Indian law, and its offices are in Bengaluru, Mumbai and New Delhi.

The instruments behind each kind of question are set out at instructed from outside India.

By reader and by region

  1. Businesses incorporated outside India

    Indian law for a business incorporated outside India: the practice areas, sectors and advocates on this site that deal with entry, investment and disputes.

  2. Indians outside India

    Indian law for non-resident Indians and overseas citizens: property, succession and foreign judgments, with the practice areas, sectors and advocates on this site.

  3. From the Gulf

    The Gulf and India: the time difference city by city, how a document signed in a Gulf state is apostilled or attested for use in India, and the offices.

  4. From Europe

    Europe and India: the time difference city by city, how a document signed in a European state is apostilled for use in India, and the offices.

  5. From North America

    North America and India: the time difference city by city, how a document signed in the United States or Canada is apostilled for use in India, and the offices.

  6. From Asia, the Pacific and the Indian Ocean

    Singapore, Japan, Australia and Mauritius and India: the time difference city by city, how a document signed there is apostilled for use in India, and the offices.

Where investment into India comes from

Share of cumulative foreign direct investment equity inflow into India, April 2000 to March 2026, in rank order.
RankCountryShare
1SingaporeIndia-Singapore Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (trade; investment in Chapter 6): in force.24.72 per cent
2MauritiusInvestment treaty terminated 22 March 2017. India-Mauritius Comprehensive Economic Cooperation and Partnership Agreement: in force.23.71 per cent
3United StatesNo bilateral investment treaty listed. India-United States Bilateral Trade Agreement: under negotiation.10.39 per cent
4NetherlandsInvestment treaty terminated 1 December 2016.7.19 per cent
5JapanIndia-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (trade; investment in Chapter 8): in force.6.11 per cent
6United KingdomInvestment treaty terminated 23 March 2017. India-United Kingdom Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: in force.4.68 per cent
7United Arab EmiratesIndia-UAE Bilateral Investment Treaty: in force. India-UAE Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement: in force.3.25 per cent
10GermanyInvestment treaty terminated 23 March 2017.1.98 per cent
11FranceInvestment treaty terminated 7 April 2017.1.56 per cent
12SwitzerlandInvestment treaty terminated 22 March 2017. India-European Free Trade Association (EFTA) Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement: in force.1.44 per cent

Source: Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade: Quarterly Fact Sheet on Foreign Direct Investment inflow, April 2000 to March 2026. Ranks missing from the list are states without a page here. The line under each country is the investment treaty and trade agreement position set out, with its source, on its page.

Where Indians abroad live

Non-resident Indians living in each country, January 2026, largest number first.
CountryNon-resident Indians
United Arab EmiratesIndia-UAE Bilateral Investment Treaty: in force. India-UAE Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement: in force.4,326,248
Saudi ArabiaInvestment treaty terminated 1 August 2019.2,747,551
United StatesNo bilateral investment treaty listed. India-United States Bilateral Trade Agreement: under negotiation.2,311,484
CanadaNo bilateral investment treaty listed. India-Canada Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement: under negotiation.1,388,300
KuwaitInvestment treaty terminated 2018.1,036,389
QatarInvestment treaty terminated 23 March 2017.830,491
OmanInvestment treaty terminated 23 March 2017. India-Oman Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement: agreement signed.676,781
SingaporeIndia-Singapore Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (trade; investment in Chapter 6): in force.450,000
United KingdomInvestment treaty terminated 23 March 2017. India-United Kingdom Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: in force.369,000
GermanyInvestment treaty terminated 23 March 2017.300,000
AustraliaInvestment treaty terminated 23 March 2017. India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement: in force.125,903

Source: Ministry of External Affairs: Population of Overseas Indians, January 2026.