Power Attorney

[OCT2014]

Hi,

I want to give the power of attorney to my mother in India. My father passed away and my mother wants to sell his land in India.

I am live in Canada and I got Canadian citizenship recently .I applied for the Canadian passport and I am still waiting.I didn’t apply for OCI or surrender the Indian passport yet.

How can I apply for the power of attorney to my mother without travelling to India from Canada?

Thank You

 

[steaky]

Hi,

I want to give the power of attorney to my mother in India. My father passed away and my mother wants to sell his land in India.

I am live in Canada and I got Canadian citizenship recently .I applied for the Canadian passport and I am still waiting.I didn’t apply for OCI or surrender the Indian passport yet.

How can I apply for the power of attorney to my mother without travelling to India from Canada?

Thank You

You can use the search function in this forum. Lots of similar posts.

 

[Tasunta]

Hi,

Is it permissible for a protected person in Canada to visit their country of origin's embassy to arrange a power of attorney? Would this be viewed as illegal by IRCC while holding protected person status? If it is not allowed, what alternative methods are available to grant power of attorney to a family member in their home country?

Let me know your experience please . . .

Thank you

 

[YVR123]

Hi,

Is it permissible for a protected person in Canada to visit their country of origin's embassy to arrange a power of attorney? Would this be viewed as illegal by IRCC while holding protected person status? If it is not allowed, what alternative methods are available to grant power of attorney to a family member in their home country?

Let me know your experience please . . .

Thank you

IMO the embassy in Canada is consider "foreign soil" of your home country. I would not take the risk of meeting inside.

 

[armoured]

IMO the embassy in Canada is consider "foreign soil" of your home country. I would not take the risk of meeting inside.

I don't think that is generally a problem, but it depends what specific issue you are raising.

But I don't think it hsould be necessary for other reasons. Posting separately.

 

[armoured]

Hi,

Is it permissible for a protected person in Canada to visit their country of origin's embassy to arrange a power of attorney? Would this be viewed as illegal by IRCC while holding protected person status? If it is not allowed, what alternative methods are available to grant power of attorney to a family member in their home country?

Let me know your experience please . . .

Thank you

I don't think going in to an embassy is an issue in terms of 'permissibility.' Only issue I'm aware of with respect to Canadian authorities is 'availing yourself of protection', generally held to mean / specifically identified as renewing passport.

Leaving aside safety of course. But that's not a 'Canadian authorities' issue.

Power of attorney: hard to tell you specifics without country. If it's a country that recognizes hague convention (for apostilles/official documents), you don't need to go into embassy at all. You swear the power of attorney here, get it apostilled by provincial government, and [then it gets used abroad.]

That last [vague bit] means depends on country but probably can be used as is or with a translation.

 

[YVR123]

I don't think that is generally a problem, but it depends what specific issue you are raising.

But I don't think it hsould be necessary for other reasons. Posting separately.

I was WRONG. So it's not considered as foreign soil!
I guess OP can enter for whatever business he needs to do. He just can't get his country's passport renew.

 

[armoured]

I was WRONG. So it's not considered as foreign soil!
I guess OP can enter for whatever business he needs to do. He just can't get his country's passport renew.

It's a reasonable question - it is sort-of considered foreign soil, for many purposes (although it's actually a legal fiction, of course). But for practical purposes, I'm not aware of any country in the world that treats entering an embassy as entering the territory of the embassy's country.*


*Caveat that obviously entering one and asking for asylum would probably be considered 'availing oneself of protection of' etc. And I'm sure I don't know everything. And of course, the fact that host governments (like Canada) basically can't guarantee safety inside (because they won't breach protocol and enter except in exceptionally rare circumstances). And I'm not going to get into the cases where this has come up.