Foreigners Regional Registration Offices rise to twenty, with every state capital targeted

2 November 2026

The number of Foreigners Regional Registration Offices in the country has gone up to twenty, the Ministry of Home Affairs says. Union Home Minister Amit Shah has directed that an FRRO be set up in every state capital by 2027. Five new offices have come up in state capitals since 2025, and three more have been newly notified at Kohima, Agartala and Bhubaneswar. The twenty offices are spread from Amritsar and Chandigarh in the north to Chennai, Cochin and Trivandrum in the south, with Aizawl, Agartala, Guwahati and Kohima covering the north-east. Work is under way for Bihar, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Meghalaya. The e-FRRO platform carries 35 online services, among them registration, visa extension and visa conversion, so that a foreigner on a tourist, medical or study visa need not visit an office for routine work. The statutory basis is the Immigration and Foreigners Act, 2025, which merged four earlier laws into a single framework for the entry, stay, movement and exit of foreign nationals.