Are you leaving India in next few months or planning to move abroad
sometime in future? Then you should be clear with a few points you
should complete before you become an NRI. A lot of NRI readers come up
with various issues they face, because they never thought about
completing few tasks which could have saved them from lots of worries
and paperwork. Lets look at 10 things which a person should complete
before he/she becomes a NRI (Non resident Indian)
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One of the big issues NRI’s face is taking a term plan through
a Indian insurance company. It’s always a good idea to take a term plan
and then leave the country, otherwise later it gets really tough to get
a term plan, for which you will have to visit India and also it also
gets quite difficult to opt for online term plan.
3. Open PPF Account
NRIs cant open a fresh PPF account, so before you become a NRI and leave India, open a PPF account. You can open PPF account in ICICI bank, SBI bank or at the Post office. NRI’s can always invest money in their existing PPF account which was already opened by them before leaving India.
6. Prepare a Power of Attorney
There can be many things which require your presence in India after you have become an NRI, like if you want to make any real estate transaction or want to operate your bank account etc. It’s always a good idea to have a bit of foresight and see if you might want to prepare a power of attorney. Power of attorney is a legal way of giving power to someone to act on your behalf. Just choose some trusted family person or a friend. You can also make a power of attorney which expires at some stipulated time.
10. Update your KYC
There are different processes for residents and NRIs for various kind of financial products. Like, if you become an NRI and want to do something with banks, mutual funds, life insurance policies (traditional or ULIPs), you will first have to update your KYC and only then can you do something. So its always a good idea to update your KYC, before you become an NRI. This will save you with lots of hassles.
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10 things to complete before you become NRI and Leave India
1. Take a Term Insurance
So before you become a NRI (Non Resident Indian) , complete this step. The premiums you will pay will be lower.
2. Take Health Insurance
Just like term plans, it’s tough to get health insurance once you
become a NRI. After becoming a NRI, you will have to visit India for
health checkups and there is more documentation and hassles in the
process. Health Insurance is something, you should take anyways , so why
wait? Just take it anyway.2. Take Health Insurance
3. Open PPF Account
NRIs cant open a fresh PPF account, so before you become a NRI and leave India, open a PPF account. You can open PPF account in ICICI bank, SBI bank or at the Post office. NRI’s can always invest money in their existing PPF account which was already opened by them before leaving India.
4. Convert your Saving bank account into NRO account
A lot of people leave India only to realize later, that they need to open a NRO account in India,
and then get into the whole process. Rather than doing it later, why
not convert your existing saving bank account into NRO account just
before leaving India? NRIs can deposit all the Indian income into their
NRO account and also make payments like EMI payments, and other kind of
investments from their NRO account. All it takes is 2 photographs, and a
copy of your passport and visa.
5. Connect your Loan Account with your banking account for online payment
A lot of people who become NRI (Non Resident Indian), have a home
loan running, for which they have to still pay EMI’s . At times, they
want to prepay home loan as fast as possible, because they earn more
money outside India. But then the issue is – how to make prepayment when
they are outside India? The best option here, is to connect your home
loan account with your bank account, so that you can make prepayment to your home loan using NEFT transfer.
Its a good idea to do this before your leave India and try some
prepayment just to make sure it works. It might happen that you might
need to visit the bank for this, so better complete this before you
leave India.6. Prepare a Power of Attorney
There can be many things which require your presence in India after you have become an NRI, like if you want to make any real estate transaction or want to operate your bank account etc. It’s always a good idea to have a bit of foresight and see if you might want to prepare a power of attorney. Power of attorney is a legal way of giving power to someone to act on your behalf. Just choose some trusted family person or a friend. You can also make a power of attorney which expires at some stipulated time.
7. Make your mutual funds accounts online
A lot of people still want to transact in mutual funds after they
become NRI, but they have no easy way out at that time. It’s always a
great idea to make sure that you open a online account for mutual fund
investing while you are in India. For this, you can open a online
account with the respective mutual fund AMC’s or the best thing you can
do is to open account with FundsIndia. They support indian as well as NRI investors.
8. Open a NRE account
If you want to invest your earnings into India and want to get it
back in the foreign country (repatriation) , then you would need a NRE
account. You can not deposit the local money like interest from FD,
rental income etc into the NRE account. So if you have this kind of
requirement, then better open a NRE account. The Fixed Deposits rates on
NRE accounts are quite attractive in Indian Banks.
9. Sell your shares and open a new NRI demat account
Once you become an NRI, you will not be able to sell off your
existing demat account shares which you bought before becoming a NRI.
You can open & operate a NRI demat account. So before you become an
NRI, a good idea is to sell off the existing shares and take back the
money or the another option is to open a NRI demat account and transfer
your existing stocks to this new account.10. Update your KYC
There are different processes for residents and NRIs for various kind of financial products. Like, if you become an NRI and want to do something with banks, mutual funds, life insurance policies (traditional or ULIPs), you will first have to update your KYC and only then can you do something. So its always a good idea to update your KYC, before you become an NRI. This will save you with lots of hassles.
Conclusion
If you follow these 10 things before you become an NRI, you will have a really peaceful time abroad and will not have to get involved into the mess of completing the things, most NRIs miss. While you might be excited to go abroad, better not miss out on these points.Are you planning to leave India and become NRI Soon ?
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