Consulate General of India 4300 Scotland Street, Houston, TX 77007 Tel:713.626.2148 Fax:713.626.2450 Form MS-11 Fee: $20 per attestation ICWF: $2 APPLICATION FOR ATTESTATION OF POWER OF ATTORNEY
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Attestation of Power of Attorney at Indian Embassy in USA can be done by post or in-person. SFO embassy (San Francisco) requires Apostile by US state before attestation while New York, Washington DC, Houston, Atlanta, Chicago may or may not require Apostile.
All the pages of the Power of Attorney have to be signed by the applicant, a photograph must be pasted on the front page and signed across. Fee $20 per attestation and $2 for ICWF per application. Fee is to be paid by cashier’s check or money order drawn only in favor of "Consulate General of India".
The attestation fees are charged per page or per document varies by each Indian Embassy. Call and check before making any money orders. New York Indian Embassy charged us fees per document instead of per page (2 executants with 1 page of POA): fees $23.
The process of registering the POA does NOT require ‘ attestation ‘ if you are still in India and planning to leave soon. i.e. you are about to leave and want to give power of attorney to someone in your family or a friend. 2 witness signatures are required for attestation of Power of attorney.
Apostilling Power of Attorney. Apostilling PoA means you get a certificate from state authorities that the notarized PoA is valid. The relevant page on the Indian Embassy website also mentions that apostilling is not necessary.
The Indian consular office in San Francisco, on the other hand, charges $20 per attestation, along with an additional $2 as the Indian Community Welfare fee. So, if you have a document that needs attestation on every page, you’ll need to pay more.
The Indian consulate in Chicago charges $22 per person for property-related affidavits and $12 per person for other affidavits. For applications through mail, there’s an additional, nonrefundable fee of $2 only.
You can pay the fees only by cashier check or money order when you apply through mail.
The legal term for the person granting the PoA is “principal”. The legal term for the person receiving the PoA is “agent”. “Property affidavit” and “financial affidavit” are other terms used to indicate PoA.
resident with business interests and/or property in India, you may need to grant Power of Attorney (PoA) to someone in India to carry out transactions on your behalf. PoA is a legal document that authorizes a third party to carry out activities on your part.
You will get the attested document on the same day unless some technical glitch happens to delay the process.
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SFO embassy (San Francisco) requires Apostille by US state before attestation while New York, Washington DC, Houston, Atlanta, Chicago may or may not require Apostille. Attestation of power of attorney is NOT the same as registration of power of attorney. Attestation is a pre-requisite to registration if you are outside India – NRI ...
The process of registering the POA does NOT require ‘ attestation ‘ if you are still in India and planning to leave soon. i.e. you are about to leave and want to give power of attorney to someone in your family or a friend.
But, there is no harm in using the special power of attorney for both purposes.