Net Worth Certificate for Visa in Delhi

Delhi applicants usually arrive holding more than they need and less than they think. There are statements, deeds and often an old certificate. There is frequently a destination that requires the document to be legalised before it is lodged. Which of those has to happen first is the question worth settling. The order cannot be corrected afterwards, and an old certificate is rarely worth reusing. Our note on preparing funds evidence sets out the general shape.

Legalisation is what fixes that order. The figure has to be final and the paper signed before it leaves for authentication. A reprint issued afterwards carries nothing at all. So the position is settled before the paper is signed, and the signing is the last step rather than an early one. Attestation and apostille procedure is published by the Ministry of External Affairs.

• Embassies in ChanakyapuriThe diplomatic enclave holds embassies rather than consulates, which is the practical difference between a Delhi file and one lodged in another city. An embassy's jurisdiction is usually the widest of any mission a country keeps in India, and for several countries it takes in Haryana and much of the north.
• MEA apostille counterThere is no public counter at the Ministry of External Affairs. The Ministry stopped accepting documents from applicants directly. Everything for apostille or attestation is lodged with and collected from one of four appointed agencies: BLS International, Superb Enterprises, IVS Global and Alhind Tours and Travels. The Ministry's own fee is Rs 50 a document. The agency charge is Rs 22 for a personal document, Rs 18 for an educational one and Rs 16 for a commercial one.
• Where documents can be lodged directlyThe Ministry's branch secretariats, which do take documents directly, are at Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata and Guwahati, and there is none in the north. So a Delhi file goes through an agency whether or not the applicant is standing in the same city as the Ministry.
• VFS DelhiThe application centres in the city then take the pack for missions that outsource, and a document needing legalisation must be legalised before it is lodged. That order cannot be reversed afterwards.

• Apostille through the MEALegalisation decides the order of work on a Delhi file, and getting the order wrong costs more than any other mistake. A certificate that will be apostilled has to be signed, and notarised where the agency requires it, before it is lodged, and the apostille attaches to that signed original. A reprint issued afterwards is a different document and carries nothing. The figure therefore has to be final before the paper leaves the office, so the position is settled first and the legalisation runs last.
• What an apostille does not doAn apostille authenticates the signature and seal rather than the contents. It tells the receiving country that the person who signed holds the office claimed, and says nothing about whether the assets exist. Missions know that, which is why an apostilled certificate with a thin statement of affairs behind it does no better than an unapostilled one. The legalisation settles provenance and the evidence still has to be there.
• Student filesStudy files from the city are usually sponsored, and the sponsor is often self-employed. A business owner's worth is spread between a proprietary concern, property and deposits, and the mission is reading for whether the money can actually be moved when fees fall due. Liquid holdings are worth separating from the rest on the face of the statement, because a reader left to work out what is realisable will assume the worst. A sponsor drawing income from a firm also has to show the firm's position separately, because the two are not interchangeable. Where the fee will be met by selling something, saying what is to be sold is stronger than showing the asset and leaving the reader to guess.
• Chanakyapuri embassy submissionsVisitor applications made from the city are frequently for a parent travelling to a child abroad. The applicant has retired, the income has stopped, and the worth sits in a house and in deposits. That is a strong position and a weak income statement at the same time, and the certificate is the document that shows the first. Naming what is held, where it is held and what is charged against it does more for that file than any amount of covering explanation.

• The passport, and the destination's published requirement for legalisation
• Confirmation of which appointed agency will lodge the document for apostille
• A schedule separating liquid holdings from property, for the sponsor being certified
• The sponsor's returns and, where self-employed, the concern's accounts alongside
• The original in the number of copies the agency asks for, since a reprint carries nothing
• Where notarisation is required first, the notary's requirements confirmed in advance

Certification does not cost more in Delhi than anywhere else. The fee is the national one: Starting from INR 2499 (Exl GST and Govt. Charges) for one individual with records in order, and On quote where several properties, unlisted shareholdings or reconstructed records are involved.

See the full fee table on the Net Worth Certificate for Visa page.

All fees listed are indicative only and do not constitute a binding offer. The final amount depends on the scope of records to be examined.

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Check the destination's published requirement before anything is signed. Legalising a document nobody asked to be legalised is money and days spent for no gain, and the reverse mistake costs the appointment.

Enter holdings and the destination currency and check the result carefully, because in Delhi the signed original is what goes for authentication. A figure corrected after signing means legalising again. The converter gives an estimate, not the certified number.

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Delhi is where the legalisation chain governs the order of work. A certificate destined for a country that is party to the apostille convention must be signed, sometimes notarised, and then authenticated, in that sequence and no other.

The underlying evidence is governed by ordinary Indian law, and the certificate by the professional standard. Neither is displaced by the authentication that follows them.

• Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents 1961provides the apostille that member states accept, which authenticates the signature and seal rather than the contents.
• Notaries Act 1952governs the notarisation that several appointed agencies require before a document is accepted for authentication.
• Income-tax Act 1961, section 139requires the return a self-employed sponsor's position is read against, alongside the concern's own accounts.
• Registration Act 1908, section 17compels registration of the transfer, so property put forward behind a sponsorship is evidenced by what stands on the register.
• ICAI Guidance Note on Reports or Certificates for Special Purposes, Revised 2016requires the certificate to state its basis, which matters more once the document has been authenticated and cannot be reissued.

Official sources: ICAI · ICAI UDIN Portal · Ministry of Corporate Affairs · Income Tax Department

Delhi missions in the Chanakyapuri enclave publish their own funds expectations, and those differ from one another. Reading the wrong checklist costs an appointment rather than merely a redraft. Confirm which applies before anything is drafted. Call or WhatsApp +91 94594 56700 with the mission and the date you are working to.

From Delhi most files go to a mission in the Chanakyapuri enclave, and each publishes its own expectations of a funds document. A file assembled to a general template is the one that comes back. Read your destination's checklist before anything is drafted, because that is what decides the form. Tell us the mission and the appointment you hold, and we will build the sequence around it.