# India property from Virginia: your consulate and your rails

You live in Virginia. Your property paperwork goes to the [Embassy of India, Washington DC](/manage-india-property-from-washington-dc), at 2536 Massachusetts Avenue NW (consular wing), under the consular jurisdiction map effective 15 July 2025. Which mission handles you is decided by where you live, not by the city you travel from.

## The hours you are working across

Virginia runs 9.5 hours behind India in US summer, 10.5 in winter. India keeps no daylight saving, so a gap that moves, moves because the US moved its clocks.

## What Virginia does about the tax India already took

Virginia taxes residents on income from all sources, your India rent included, and its own instructions exclude tax paid to a foreign country from the credit it offers. The Indian tax comes back on the federal return through Form 1116, and not on the Virginia return.

Virginia's credit applies only to income tax paid to another state and does not apply to tax paid to any foreign country. One narrow exception exists in Code section 58.1-332.1, for foreign tax on pension or retirement income. Rent is not in it.

India goes first either way. Rent paid to a non-resident owner carries 31.2% withheld at source from the first rupee, with no threshold, under the rule now carried in Section 393(2) of the Income-tax Act 2025. On a sale the buyer withholds on the full price rather than on your gain, at 13% to 14.95%, unless you hold a lower-deduction certificate.

## Sending a power of attorney from Virginia

One named person, one named property, a listed set of acts. Sign before a notary with two independent witnesses, apostille through the authority that issues them where you live, courier the original to India, and adjudicate stamp duty within three months of arrival. Indian passport and OCI holders can use mission attestation instead. Since August 2025 the mission side runs through VFS Global, which adds an appointment and two courier legs.

[The full POA route from the USA](/guides/power-of-attorney-from-usa-to-india) · [What the tenant must deduct](/guides/tds-on-rent-nri-landlord) · [What the IRS wants](/guides/us-tax-on-rental-income-nri)

## Also served by Washington DC

- [District of Columbia](/usa/district-of-columbia)
- [Kentucky](/usa/kentucky)
- [Maryland](/usa/maryland)
- [North Carolina](/usa/north-carolina)
- [West Virginia](/usa/west-virginia)
- [Bermuda](/usa/bermuda)

[All nine Indian missions in the USA](/usa) · [The full US owner’s guide](/nri-property-usa) · [Property Health Check](/property-health-check)

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Source: [https://66mgroad.com/usa/virginia](https://66mgroad.com/usa/virginia) · 66 MG Road. Full LLM brief: https://66mgroad.com/llms.txt