September 2026
New & expanded content
- Three new city guides — Nashville, Denver & Phoenix, bringing the total to 24 metros across the US and Canada (neighbourhoods, groceries, temples/gurdwaras, restaurants, universities and tax notes for each).
- New guide: Building credit from scratch in the US and Canada — your CIBIL score doesn't transfer, so here's how to build a US FICO or Canadian file from zero.
- Airport → city ground transport for Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai and Kochi (Delhi was already covered): prepaid taxis, app-cab zones, metro/rail status, airport buses and an arrival tip for each.
- Earlier guides added: OCI for a US-born child of Indian parents and bringing your parents to visit the US.
Tools & features
- SmartBazaar (our grocery & nutrition planner) grew a lot: a nutrition look-up for any Indian dish, a per-recipe cook view, per-day macros in the weekly plan, and a fasting (vrat/upvas) food helper covering Ekadashi, Navratri, Karwa Chauth, Ramadan, Paryushana and more. The recipe library is now 40+ dishes and the nutrition dataset 146 items.
- Meridian, the tri-country tax tool, gained a print-friendly summary you can hand to a CPA, a plain-English DTAA & concepts FAQ, save-and-resume, and a deeper India/US/Canada reporting checklist — plus a cleaner mobile layout.
- New "Guide me" companion: a 20-second profile (who you are, which country, your city, your stage) that re-orders the homepage for you and pre-fills the First-Month Wizard. Look for the compass button, bottom-right.
- New Report a correction page — one tap to flag anything that's gone stale, so we can re-check the source and fix it.
A standing note on freshness
Rules for NRIs change at every Union Budget and policy update — customs allowances, tax dates, visa and OCI fees, consulate jurisdictions, remittance limits, even which credit cards accept newcomers. We source every figure to the agency that publishes it and date our reviews, but things still drift. Two habits that will always serve you:
- Verify time-sensitive numbers against the official source before you file, remit, buy or sell — we link the source on every page.
- Tell us when something's out of date. The corrections page takes 30 seconds and genuinely helps every reader who comes after you.
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