Digital Signatures
Digital signature certificate for foreign nationals
Identity is verified against a passport rather than Aadhaar, and the whole process can be completed from outside India. Here is the route, the documents, and the attestation rules.
Foreign national
Class 3 Signature — Individual
- In whose name
- The applicant, exactly as the name appears on the passport
- Covers
- The same portals a domestic certificate covers — GST, Income Tax, MCA and ROC, Tenders, DGFT
- Validity
- 1 year · 2 years · 3 years
- Professional fees
- On request
Documents Required
4 documents
- Applicant's photograph
- Scanned copy of the original passport
- PAN copy (if available)
- Address proof — driving licence, latest utility bill (electricity, telephone) not older than 3 months, or latest bank statement not older than 3 months
- Mobile number of the applicant
- Email ID of the applicant
How to send them
- All documents must be clear, colour-scanned copies.
- Documents must be in English.
- Anything not in English must be translated into English and notarised by the local competent authority.
- Illegible scans are the commonest cause of delay in verification.
Before you apply
Every digital signature certificate needs a short video verification before it can be issued. You record it yourself, from your own phone or laptop — it takes two to three minutes.
How to record it
- 1.Log in and open Record Video.
- 2.Read the text on your screen out loud, including your verification code.
- 3.Organisation and foreign DSC: hold up each document you uploaded, one at a time, so it is clearly readable on camera.
- 4.Submit.
The text on screen reads something close to this:
“My name is Narendra. My video verification code is 123. I have applied for Digital Signature.”
Read the version shown on your own screen — your name, your code. Don't recite the example above.
Before you press record
Sit somewhere quiet with steady light on your face. The audio is checked as carefully as the video, so a fan, a TV or traffic behind you is enough to fail a recording.
Why videos get rejected
- Face not fully in frame, or too dark to make out
- Speech unclear, too quiet, or drowned out by background noise
- People or movement behind you
- Documents held too close, too far, or out of focus to read
A rejected video means recording again and waiting for the second one to be reviewed, so it is worth two quiet minutes the first time.
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