Since around September 2016, the Foreigners Regional
Registration Office (the FRRO) at Hyderabad requires evidence of
the visa sponsor's business operations in Hyderabad. Companies
are required to provide evidence of it being a registered entity
when it wishes to sponsor foreign nationals to work on employment
visas in India. This is usually fulfilled by providing a
registration certificate issued by the Registrar of Companies,
which reflects the registered address of the company. The situation
gets tricky when the registered address of the visa sponsoring
company is in a location other than Hyderabad. In such cases, when
the visa sponsor wishes to employ the foreign national in Hyderabad
it is required to provide other, government issued evidence of it
being an operating entity in that jurisdiction. This may be
registration under the Shops and Establishment Act of Telangana
State (which is a mandatory requirement for most entities) or any
other relevant Telangana State
