Nepal is the most legally distinctive country connected to India that this platform covers. Under the 1950 Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Indian and Nepali citizens may cross the border and live, work, and reside in each other's country without a passport or visa -- yet Nepal is not a Hague Apostille Convention member, so a Power of Attorney executed in Nepal for use on Indian property still requires the full non-Hague legalization chain. The Indian-origin community is estimated at roughly 700,000 (per Ministry of External Affairs 2025 data), concentrated mainly in the Terai plains bordering Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal, with roots tracing to the 1770s-80s. Legal questions that reach back into India -- property, succession, taxation -- apply the same underlying Indian law regardless of country of residence, alongside Nepal-specific realities such as a genuinely unresolved question over Indian nationals' land-ownership rights in Nepal itself, and the India-Nepal DTAA's flagged gap around Fees for Technical Services. Seven dedicated Nepal guides are live below.
