NRIs who don't register their marriage can have passports impounded: Bill

NEW DELHI: Non-Resident Indians who marry an Indian citizen or a fellow NRI abroad have to compulsorily register their marriages within 30 days or face the prospects of their passports being impounded or even revoked, according to a bill introduced in Rajya Sabha on Monday. The Registration of Marriage of NonResident Indian Bill, 2019 also allows courts to attach movable and immovable properties of NRIs who are declared "proclaimed offenders" for failing to appear before law.