R2I - No FRO/FRRO registration maybe required for kids under 16 yrs of age
Since writing the first post of our FRO/FRRO experiences after returning to India, I haven’t written anything at all on the topic and neither have I answered any of the queries in the comments. The reason is that I hadn’t done anything at all about the whole FRO/FRRO business since that day in Jun of ‘07 when I had gone to the FRO’s office in Bangalore. The FRO’s office had clearly said how we needed to get our kids registered. And the registration process was requiring all of us to go to the FRO’s office on a working day. It just wasn’t likely to happen. So, I left it at that.
But, it so happened that when my husband was returning to India a couple of weeks ago, he noticed what the immigration form that was given in flight had to say. Apparently it says ‘No FRO/FRRO registration required for kids under 16 years of age’! I wish I had an image of the form so that I could have uploaded it here. Unfortunately I do not. If you are reading this, and have seen something to that effect on the immigration form, please do share it in the comments. Will be of use to a lot of people. What bothers me is that if the immigration form clearly states that, why was I asked to get our kids registered at the FRO’s office?
All your comments/inputs are very welcome, as always.
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I don’t know about the immigration form thing, but we recently had to register at FRO. Not me, but hubby and kid are french citizens and kid is 2.5 yrs old. And the kid did have to go through it. Luckily we got it done through an agent( from hubby’s office). We handed over all the required documents to him, he fixed an appointment for a particular day. We all had to go once WITH the baby and on the next day, just hubby had to go to collect some acknowledgment and everything was done quite easily. Thank God! because we were quite worried about this whole FRO thing. But it all went smooth.
Btw we got all this done in 1st week of July. Don’t know if anything changed after that. But it is always better to follow their instructions and not argue with them. Initially I had been there to collect the forms and they give you a list of whatever you require to submit. If that is followed strictly, then I guess things are a li’l smooth.
check this link out
chitra,
check this link out http://www.indianembassy.fi/index.php?id=89
chitra
sorry for the multiple replies.
heres another useful link http://www.immigrationindia.nic.in/registration_requirements.htm
Aargee, thanks for sharing your experience.
I wasnt going to argue with them. But the FRO registration should be more of a need from the immigration folks. And if they dont want a registration, then I guess it is not needed. I will need it only to take the kids out of and bring into India. 
Thanks Sid for the link. Very useful that. if the immigration doesn’t need it, then clearly kids under 16 need not be registered with the FRO’s office.