ADMISSION COMMITTEE FOR PROFESSIONAL UNDER GRADUATE &
POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION COURSES (ACPUGMEC & ACPPGMEC)
Government of Gujarat
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GUIDELINES FOR ADMISSION IN NRI QUOTA SEATS
1. DEFINITIONS:
a) “NRI” means a Non-Resident Indian as defined under Income Tax Act.1961 read with Foreign
Exchange Management Act (FEMA), 1999.
Accordingly following criteria will be used for determining the NRI status of the candidate /
parent.
Non-resident Indian is “a person who is not resident in India”.
The term NRI is defined under FEMA rules and regulations as ‘A person resident outside India
who is either a citizen of India or is a person of Indian origin (PIO).’
Under the Foreign Exchange management (Deposit) Regulations, 2000, which deal with banking
accounts in India by NRIs, the term PIO is defined as below:
A Person of Indian Origin (PIO) is a citizen of any country other than Bangladesh or Pakistan, if
he at any time held an Indian passport or he or either of his parents or any of his grandparents
was a citizen of India by virtue of the Constitution of India or the Citizenship Act, 1955 or he is
spouse of an Indian citizen or a person referred to in ‘A’ or ‘B’.
Resident outside India: Person resident outside India means a person who is not resident in
India.
Resident in India: Person Resident in India means:
i. Person Resident in India for more than 182 days during the course of preceding financial
year but does not include:
A) A person who has gone out of India or who stays outside India, in either case:
(A.1) for or on taking up employment outside India; or
(A.2) for carrying on outside India a business or vocation outside India; or
(A.3) for any other purpose, in such circumstances as would indicate his intention to stay
outside India for a uncertain period.
B) A person who has come to or stay in India, in either case, otherwise than:
(B.1) for or on taking up employment in India, or
(B.2) for carrying on in India a business or vocation in India, or
(B.3) for any other purpose, in such circumstances as would indicate his intention to stay in
India for an uncertain period;
ii. Any person or body corporate registered or incorporated in India;
iii. An Office, Branch or Agency in India owned or controlled by a person resident outside India;
iv. An Office, Branch or Agency in India owned or controlled by a person resident in India.
b) Person of Indian Origin:
Person of Indian Origin" means a foreign citizen (not being a citizen of Pakistan, Bangladesh and
other countries as may be specified by the Central Government from time to time) if,
he/she at any time held an Indian passport; or