LLP Registration for Foreigners in India (FDI in LLP)

Yes. A foreign national or a foreign company can be a partner in an Indian LLP, provided the LLP works in a sector where 100% foreign investment is allowed on the automatic route with no FDI-linked conditions, and at least one designated partner is resident in India.

Only those in sectors open to 100% foreign investment on the automatic route, with no conditions tied to that investment. A sector with a cap below 100%, one that needs Government approval, or one with conditions fails the test, and the business needs a company instead.

Then foreign money cannot come into an LLP for that business. The usual route is a private limited company, which faces only its own sector cap and entry route. Our company registration for foreigners page covers it.

No. An LLP can take foreign investment only on the automatic route. Where a sector or an investor needs Government approval, the LLP route is closed and a company is used instead.

Investors from a country sharing a land border with India cannot invest in an LLP: the FDI Policy (para 3.1.1, Press Note 2 of 2026) requires Government approval for them, and an LLP can take foreign investment only on the automatic route. This also covers an investing company whose owners from such a country hold more than 10% of it or control it.

Not by itself. The land-border rule looks at citizenship, the place an entity is registered and who owns or controls the investing company, not where a person lives.

Yes, if owners from land-border countries hold 10% or less of it and do not control it. It may invest on the automatic route, and DPIIT requires the information on the NSWS portal before the money is sent.

No. A foreign venture capital investor (FVCI) or a foreign portfolio investor (FPI) cannot put money into an LLP. An LLP also has no shares, so it does not suit a business that plans to raise equity.

An NRI can, and also has a separate route on a non-repatriation basis that counts as domestic investment. See LLP registration for NRIs.

Yes. All partners may be foreign individuals or foreign companies, but at least one of the designated partners must be resident in India, meaning a stay of at least 120 days in the current financial year.

The LLP Act defines it as a person who has stayed in India for at least 120 days during the financial year. Nationality is not part of the test, so a foreign national who meets the stay can qualify.

No. You arrange the resident designated partner yourself. The person must be a partner, or the nominee of a company partner, and answers for the LLP’s filings and penalties.

A foreign company can be a partner in its own name. It acts through an individual it nominates, who can also serve as one of the designated partners.

Yes. Every designated partner needs a Director Identification Number. A foreign national without one applies for it in FiLLiP, using a passport as identity proof; up to five individuals can apply in one FiLLiP.

Our professional fee starts at US$349 and covers name reservation (RUN-LLP); FiLLiP with DIN applications for foreign designated partners using their passports; PAN and TAN; coordinating the DSC video verification across time zones; an LLP agreement drafted for a foreign partner, filed in Form 3; and collecting and uploading the foreign documents. Quoted separately: FIRMS registration and Form LLP (I); the valuation certificate; review of the foreign documents’ attestation; and the DPIIT pre-remittance check where it applies. DSC charges, MCA fees and stamp duty are extra, the government amounts at actuals in ₹; GST as shown on your quote.

By inward remittance through banking channels, or, where the investor holds one, from a repatriable foreign currency or rupee account under the FEMA deposit rules. The money goes into the LLP’s account with an authorised dealer bank.

Yes. The contribution must be at not less than its fair price, worked out by an internationally accepted method and certified by a chartered accountant, a practising cost accountant or an approved valuer. The certificate goes with Form LLP (I), and its valuation date must be within 90 days before the investment.

The RBI charges a late submission fee of ₹7,500 plus 0.025% of the amount for each year of delay, counted in months and capped at the amount itself. This route is open for up to three years from the due date; after that, the delay has to be compounded.

Usually, yes. A partner of an LLP whose transactions reach ₹2.5 lakh in a tax year, which the capital contribution alone often does, must apply for a PAN by 31 May after that tax year. A foreign national uses Form 95 and a foreign company Form 96.

Form LLP (I) within 30 days of receiving foreign contribution, Form LLP (II) within 60 days of receiving the funds on a transfer between a resident and a non-resident, and the FLA return by 15 July every year.

Yes. On disinvestment, the proceeds can be sent abroad or credited to a repatriable foreign currency or rupee account, subject to the pricing rules for transfers.

Yes. The LLP files Form 4 for the new partner, the contribution is priced at not less than fair value, and Form LLP (I) goes to the RBI within 30 days of the money arriving. See adding a partner to an LLP.

Yes, on the automatic route, if the company is in a sector open to 100% foreign investment on that route with no FDI-linked conditions. See converting a private limited company to an LLP.

Yes. An LLP with foreign investment in a sector open to 100% automatic investment, with no conditions, can convert into a company on the automatic route. See LLP to company conversion.