Instructions to fill application form to report the FC-GPR to Reserve Bank of India according to Annexure I of

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FEMA Notification No 20 dated May 3, 2000

FORM – FC-GPR (as per Annexure I) of FEMA to choose the document file to upload. Clicking on
Notification No 20 dated May 3, 2000) button will remove the attached document from the
electronic form.
The “Other Attachment(s)” section in the e-Form can be used
General Instructions for communicating to the department, when department asks
for clarification or requests for further documentary
Foreign investment comes into India in various forms. evidences.
Following the reforms path, the Reserve Bank of India has
The e-form needs to be digitally signed using a digital
liberalized the provisions relating to such investments. All
signature by the applicant. Upon signing, it will prompt
foreign investment through any of the channels are required
applicant to save the e-Form. If applicant wishes to make any
to be reported to RBI under FEMA, 1999.
modifications to an already signed e-Form, right-clicking on
Any company or organization receiving foreign direct the signature field and choosing “Clear signature” will enable
investment must report the transaction to the Reserve Bank editing of form and any modifications can be made to the
of India in the stipulated time. FC-GPR Reporting should be form.
done within 30 days of issue of shares / convertible
The form should be saved on your local system. The name of
debentures.
the form should be appended with the IFSC code of the
The electronic form (e-Form) can be downloaded from branch through which user is associated with the bank. E.g.
service landing page to your computer and can be filled xyz.pdf should be named as xyz_ICIC0003212.pdf
offline. You will require internet connection only while
The signed form can now be uploaded on to e-Biz portal using
downloading the e-Form and while submitting the completed
“Upload and Submit Form” link on the e-Biz web site.
e-Form on the eBiz website.
If you had chosen “Download Prefilled Form” option while
downloading the e-Form, then, some fields may already come Field instructions
with pre-filled data. You may change this data if you wish.
As you progress completing the e-Form, you may save the Permanent Account Number (PAN) of the investee company
form as many times as you wish, just like any other given by the IT department.
document. Saving the document helps you to check if there
Enter the date of issue of shares / convertible debentures/
are any errors in the data that you have already entered. In
others. Enter in dd/mm/yyyy format.
case of errors, the form will show an error message and a
mark will be shown above the respective field. You may 1 Enter the Name, address and the contact details of
correct the data and save the form once again to clear the the investee company.
error.
In the address field, address line 1, town/city, state, district
Every field in the electronic form has associated help text. On and Pincode are mandatory fields. Fax, Telephone and email
placing the mouse cursor over a field, a tooltip will pop-up id are also mandatory fields.
describing the type of data and valid values that it can accept.
Enter the registration number provided by the
A small note is also displayed for some of the fields indicating Registrar of companies.
the constraints in the input values.
Enter the date of incorporation of the company.
Fields marked with * are mandatory and should be filled in
Select whether the company is new or existing.
before a form can be submitted on e-Biz portal. You may not
be able to leave some of the fields blank in the e-Form. In case If it is an existing company, then provide the previous
you wish not to enter data in a field, please input “NA” if it is a registration number provided by RBI or FDI, if any.
text/description field or a 0, if it is a numeric field.
Select whether the project is greenfield or
Some of the fields can accept multiple values. If you have to brownfield.
furnish more than one item, you may use the button to 2 Provide details regarding the main business activity
add more rows. Similarly, if you want to remove a row, you of the company. Select the appropriate NIC code for the
may use button. business activity from the dropdown list.

Your electronic application form can also embed documents in Provide details regarding location of the project.
digital format as documentary evidences to be used by
department for verification. You may click on button
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Enter detailed address of the project. Here, the the break up of premium in this table. The total will be
name, address line 1, city, state, and district fields are calculated by system and displayed to user.
mandatory.
4d Select the mode through which total inflow (in
The codes for district and state will be auto- Rupees) on account of issue of shares / convertible
populated based on the details entered in the above field. debentures/others to non-residents (including premium, if
any) has been made.
Select the FDI cap allowed for the sector as per the
FDI policy. Please enter the date on which the remittance was reported
to RBI as under Para 9 (1) A of Schedule I to Notification No.
Please enter whether FDI is allowed under
FEMA 20 /2000-RB dated May 3, 2000, as amended from
Automatic Route or Approval Route
time to time.
If under approval route, give SIA/FIPB approval No. with date
4e Please declare the fair value of shares issued in this
of approval.
section. Select the option if the company if listed or unlisted
3 Please provide details of the foreign investor / and provide the fair value of share. Select one option and
collaborator. Details of foreign residence should be given. enter the value against it.
Indian address if any should not be given
5 Please enter the details about post issue pattern of
Enter the Name, address and country of the foreign investor. shareholding in this section.
Select the constitution / nature of investing entity from the Against a particular investor category, enter the number of
dropdown. Multiple options can be selected from the given shares or convertible debentures, the amount (Face value) of
values. If the nature of investing entity is not one of the this, and the percentable shareholding of the investor
provided options, then select others and specify the nature in category. These details can be entered across multiple
the adjoining text box. investor categories in the shareholding pattern.
Enter the date of incorporation of the investing entity from The sub total for non-resident section and total of non-
the calendar control. resident and resident sections (total FDI received) is
calculated by system and displayed.
4 Please provide the details of shares/ convertible
debentures / others that have been issued to the investing
entity
Declaration:
4a In the first table, enter the number of shares /
It is assumed that applicant has read the declaration and
convertible debentures issued and the date on which they
agrees to the points mentioned in this section.
were issued against the appropriate nature of issue. You can
enter these details against more than one nature of issue if In the declaration, please select the checkbox against the
required. Also, it is mandatory to select one nature of issue appropriate option. Also, provide the approval number and
from cash transactions or non-cash transactions. date of SIA/FIPB approval.
The total number of shares / convertible debentures will be Also, please provide the Unique Identification Number (s) and
calculated by the system and displayed. This cannot be edited the amount of inflow against each UIN in the table provided.
by user. This is mandatory if nature of issue is against a cash
transaction.
In case the issue is against conversion of ECB or royalty or
against import of capital goods by units in SEZ, a Chartered Also, the total of amount of inflow mentioned here should be
Accountant's Certificate certifying the amount outstanding on equal to the total inflow captured in section 4b.
the date of conversion has to be attached.
4b In the second table, enter the details regarding type
Electronic Attachments:
of security issued. Against a particular nature of security in
the table, please enter the number of security issued, the Upload the file using the link and if you wish to
maturity date (if applicable), the face value, premium paid, remove any file, use the link.
the issue price per share and the amount of inflow. I. Reason for delay in submission: this attachment is
The total amount of inflow will be calculated by system and required if the form is submitted after 30 days from the
displayed in the table. date of receipt of funds
II. CS Certificate
4c In case the issue price is greater than the face value III. Certificate from SEBI registered Merchant Banker /
please give break up of the premium received. Please enter Chartered Accountant indicating the manner of arriving
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at the price of the shares issued to the persons resident II. Applicant will be solely responsible for incomplete or
outside India. incorrect information.
IV. Disclaimer certificate III. Before filing the form, applicant needs to obtain the
V. Statutory Auditor Certificate scanned copy of the documents mentioned in the
VI. Board resolution attachments section so that they can be attached in the
VII. LRN(Loan Registration Number) allotted form before submission.
VIII. copy of FIPB approval (if required)
IX. Transfer of shares details, if applicable

If the investor and remitter are separate entities, please

Any other attachments: Add any other document if required.

Verification:
Enter the following details in this section:
I. Name of the Person
II. Name of the Place.
III. Date of signing the electronic form
IV. Designation.
V. Digital Signature of Authorized signatory of the investee
company.

Office routing:
I. Kindly select the Authorized Dealer Bank to whom the
form has to be submitted.
II. Select the Bank name and branch name from the
options displayed in the form.
III. Please enter your account number in the selected bank
and enter the IFSC code of the branch through which
you are associated with the bank.
IV. The name of the form should be appended with the
IFSC code of the branch through which user is
associated with the bank. E.g. xyz.pdf should be named
as xyz_ICIC0003212.pdf. The IFSC code used in naming
the form should be same as that entered in the eform.

Appendix:
I. Kindly fill complete and correct information in relevant
fields in the Application Form.