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Outside India

From North America

The time difference between North America and India, and how a document signed there is accepted here.

Time difference

India Standard Time is five hours and thirty minutes ahead of UTC throughout the year.

  • New York and Toronto are ten hours and thirty minutes behind Bengaluru, and nine hours and thirty minutes behind while daylight saving time is in force there.
  • Chicago is eleven hours and thirty minutes behind Bengaluru, and ten hours and thirty minutes behind while daylight saving time is in force there.
  • San Francisco and Vancouver are thirteen hours and thirty minutes behind Bengaluru, and twelve hours and thirty minutes behind while daylight saving time is in force there.

Documents signed abroad

India is a party to the Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents, 1961, so a public document from another contracting State that carries an apostille issued by the competent authority there is accepted in India without further legalisation. The status table of the Hague Conference lists Canada, Mexico and the United States of America among the contracting States.

The calculators on this site state figures in Indian rupees. No conversion into another currency is offered.

Country pages

  • United StatesNo bilateral investment treaty listed. India-United States Bilateral Trade Agreement: under negotiation.10.39 per cent of investment into India; 2,311,484 non-resident Indians
  • CanadaNo bilateral investment treaty listed. India-Canada Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement: under negotiation.0.55 per cent of investment into India; 1,388,300 non-resident Indians

Each line states the investment treaty and trade agreement position set out, with its source, on the country page.

Offices

  • Bengaluru

    7th Floor, Raheja Towers, East Wing, 26/27 Mahatma Gandhi Road, Craig Park Layout, Ashok Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560001

    +91 76765 68787

    India Standard Time, UTC+5:30

  • Mumbai

    Unit No. 4, 3rd Floor, Inspire BKC, Village Kolekalyan, Bandra Kurla Complex, Bandra East, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400051

    India Standard Time, UTC+5:30

  • New Delhi

    L29 to L34, First Floor, Connaught Place, New Delhi, Delhi 110001

    India Standard Time, UTC+5:30

Notes

Sources

  1. ConventionHague Conference on Private International Law: status table of the Apostille Convention, 1961hcch.net
  2. Official pageMinistry of External Affairs: Attestation and Apostillemea.gov.in

Limits of this page

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