APPLICATION FOR OPENING AN RFC ACCOUNT

To:
The Manager,
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Please open an RFC Account in my name. The relevant particulars are as under :
1. Name, address and Phone
No. of the applicant
:
2. Nationality :
3. Origin (state whether you
are of Indian origin)
:
4. Passport particulars :
No. :
Issuing Authority :
Expiry Date :
5. Date of arrival in India to
become a resident in India
:
6. Particulars of residence
outside India
:
Country Period Nature of occupation
From To
(An attested copy of the relevant pages of the passport must be enclosed)
7. Do you continue to have any :
Photograph
employment or business or vocation
outside India? If so please give full
particulars
8. Foreign currency/ies in which RFC
Account/s is/are to be opened
:
9. Type of Account desired (state
whether fixed deposit, current or
savings account)
:
I hereby declare that I have gone through the provisions of the RFC
Accounts Scheme. I declare that the particulars stated hereinabove are correct and
I am eligible to open and maintain RFC Account under the Scheme as applied. I
agree that the RFC Account shall be governed by the RFC Accounts Scheme and
the directions issued by the Reserve Bank under the Foreign Exchange Regulation
Act, 1973 from time to time.
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Place : (Signature)
Date :
Instructions to the applicant
i) Applicant is advised to read carefully the RFC Accounts Scheme before
making the application.
ii) Account will not be opened unless full particulars are furnished in the
application form.
iii) Application form duly filled in and signed must be accompanied by copies of
the relevant pages of the passport duly certified by the applicant as true copies.
The passport should be submitted along with the application for verification.
iv) Furnishing any false information in the application amounts to a contravention
of the provisions of the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1973.
v) Applicant should furnish such other particulars or documents, as may be
required by the authorised dealer for the latter to satisfy himself that the
applicant is an eligible person and the funds proposed to be credited to the RFC
account are eligible for the purpose.
vi) Nomination facility is available to the RFC accounts as in the case of resident
rupee accounts.