In order to understand the procedures for registration of foreigners, Commissioner of Police, Dimapur cum Foreigners Registration Office (FRO) has informed the hoteliers where foreigners are lodged and educational institutes with foreign students to depute a representative with basic computer knowledge to the office or log into http://indianfrro.gov.in/frro/FormCor http://indianfrro.gov.in/fsis for creating the user ID.
In a press release, PRO Dimapur police stated that a central database of foreign tourist and foreign students in India was maintained to monitor their movement and stay in India.
For this purpose, PRO said a software Module- ‘C Form Module’ has been developed to facilitate on-line filling of the particulars of foreigner nationals by the hoteliers where foreigners were lodged.
It stated that hotel, guest house, lodge, resort, hospital etc were to create an ID through http://indianfrro.gov.in/frro/FormC to enter the foreigners’ data as and when they arrive in the premises.
As per rule, it was statutory obligation to intimate the office of the FRO of all arrival and stay of Foreigner in the premises.
In the same lines, ‘S Form Module’ has been developed to facilitate on-line filling of the particulars of foreign students by the educational institute where foreigners were enrolled as students/research scholars.
The educational institutes with foreign students are to create an ID through http://indianfrro.gov.in/fsis. A unique ID for the foreign students is generated after the on-line filling of the particulars.
FRO shall not entertain Registration/Visa extension/exit of any foreign students in the absence of the registration of the concerned institutes in the Module. Inconvenience and liabilities thereof caused to the foreign students will rest upon the institute, PRO stated.
It stated that non-compliance attracts liability under the Foreigners Act 1946 against such establishments & Institutes.
Meanwhile, for more information, one could call +91 7085055044 or e-mail to fro-nadpr@nic.in
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