FEMA

Financial Rights, Restrictions, and Prohibitions Of Non-Resident Indian (NRI)

Non-Resident Indian (NRI) is a person resident outside India who is a citizen of India with any one of the criteria applicable to:

  1. For taking up employment outside India.
  2. For carrying on outside India a business or vocation outside India.
  3. For any purpose, in such circumstances as would indicate his intention to stay outside India for an uncertain period.

For income tax purpose, a non-resident is a person who has been living out of India for more than 182 days in the preceding financial year.