Set up a wholly owned Indian subsidiary of your foreign company — incorporation, FDI reporting and tax IDs, all remote.
A wholly owned subsidiary is an Indian private limited company whose shares are held by your foreign parent company, giving you a full legal presence in India that can invoice customers, hire staff and sign contracts in its own name. Foreign investment into most sectors is permitted under the automatic route, meaning no prior government approval is needed, although a few sectors still require approval. Fastlegal handles incorporation with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), helps open the bank account, and reports the capital you bring in to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), so you never need to visit India.
One fixed professional fee, inclusive of GST, agreed with you before any work starts — no hourly billing, no surprises, and nothing charged until you approve it. MCA filing fees, state stamp duty and apostille/notarisation charges abroad extra, at actuals.
Choose the subsidiary package and pay online in INR or by international card; a Fastlegal expert then books a kick-off call to confirm your structure.
Upload apostilled parent-company documents, director KYC and office proof to your Fastlegal dashboard — no originals need to be couriered to India.
We obtain DSCs, reserve the name, file SPICe+ with MCA, coordinate the bank account and remittance, and file FC-GPR on the RBI FIRMS portal.
Track each milestone in your dashboard and download the Certificate of Incorporation, PAN, TAN and the FC-GPR acknowledgement as they are issued.
Yes. Under current rules every Indian company must have at least one director who has stayed in India for 182 days or more in the financial year. The other directors can be foreign nationals living abroad. If you do not have someone suitable, we can discuss options for meeting this requirement.
In most sectors, yes. A private limited company needs at least two shareholders, so the parent typically holds all but one share and a nominee (often a group company or an individual) holds one share on the parent's behalf. Sectors under the approval route or with sectoral caps are the exception, and we check this for you at the start.
No. The whole process is remote. Documents signed abroad are apostilled (if your country is part of the Hague Apostille Convention) or attested by the Indian embassy, and filings are made digitally. Bank account opening is also usually completed without a visit, though some banks ask for a video verification.
Typically 3–4 weeks after the apostilled documents reach us, depending on MCA name approval and bank timelines. Apostille or embassy attestation in your home country can add one to three weeks before that, so it is the step to start early. We do not guarantee government timelines.
FC-GPR is the report filed with the Reserve Bank of India when an Indian company issues shares to a foreign investor. Under current rules it must be filed on the RBI FIRMS portal within 30 days of allotment of shares. Late filing attracts late submission fees and may require compounding, so we treat it as part of incorporation rather than an afterthought.
The subsidiary must file annual returns and financial statements with the ROC, get its accounts audited, file an income tax return, submit the annual FLA return to the RBI, and maintain transfer pricing documentation for transactions with the parent. Our foreign company annual compliance package covers this.