This question has multiple legal dimensions — Indian law, the law of the country where the property is situated, and the regulatory interface between them — and the right approach depends on where the foreign property is, what you intend to do with it, and your tax residency status. Let me give you a practical framework for approaching this from Patna.

The inheritance of foreign immovable property is governed by the laws of the country where the property is located, not by Indian law. Your first step is to engage a lawyer in that country to obtain probate or letters of administration (or the local equivalent), establish your heirship under that country's succession law, and formally register the inheritance. This process is entirely separate from anything that happens in India, and Indian courts have no jurisdiction over the inheritance of foreign land. Where the property is to be sold, the sale proceeds and their remittance to India must comply with FEMA (Foreign Exchange Management Act) regulations — NRIs can remit sale proceeds from inherited foreign property to India through the Liberalised Remittance Scheme and specific FEMA provisions, but the amount and manner must be correctly structured to avoid regulatory violation.

The Indian obligations that arise from inheriting foreign property are primarily tax-related and disclosure-based. If you are a tax resident of India in any year — including NRIs who spend sufficient time in India — you must disclose foreign assets in Schedule FA of your Indian Income Tax Return under the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act 2015. Failure to disclose attracts severe penalties — up to three times the value of the undisclosed asset — and the Act is actively enforced. If the inherited property generates rental income, that income must be declared in your Indian return and is taxable (subject to any Double Tax Avoidance Agreement between India and the country of the property's location). The NRI property and taxation lawyers at the Patna panel of Aapka Legal Advice can coordinate with foreign counsel, structure the FEMA-compliant remittance of sale proceeds to Patna, and ensure your Indian tax filings correctly reflect the foreign inheritance without triggering penalties.

One practical step: obtain the foreign probate or inheritance certificate and have it apostilled under the Hague Convention authentication process — this is required for most formal uses of the document both in the foreign country and for Indian regulatory purposes.