RFC [Paragraph 14 E.2(i)] APPLICATION FOR OPENING AN RFC ACCOUNT To The Manager, Please open an RFC Account in my name. The relevant particulars are as under: 1. Name and address 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 : 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. (Signature) Place: 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 alongwith 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.
