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What Is The Best Way To Send Money From India To Australia?

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Last updated on May 28th, 2020

“Money can not be created or destroyed. It can only be transferred from one account to the other.”
– Harsh, The Philosopher

Quite often, people move to a developed country for the dollar figure. Due to the exchange rate difference, it makes sense to earn good money overseas and send a portion of it to pay off debts or help parents/siblings back home.

However, sometimes the process goes the other way round i.e. you need to send money from India to overseas. For example, you might need funds to finance a new business or to buy a piece of land or to build a house.

Unfortunately, when you want to send money from India to abroad, the rules are not as straightforward as they are the other way around.

First, you have to deal with different types of bank accounts you may need to open as an NRI.

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Lodging Visa Application And Making Visa Payment

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Last updated on October 31st, 2019

Now that I had received the invitation to lodge visa, I had 60 days to lodge the visa application or else the invitation would expire. Lodging visa application consisted of one monstrous task – making visa payment. It was monstrous in the sense that the amount itself was big enough and there was only one option to make the payment – travel card.

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As Immi site does not accept visa payment by any other means except credit card (or Australian bank accounts which were not very useful for me), I started researching about which bank had a good reputation when it comes to travel card.  One thing was clear early on that I could not use a normal credit card, as the amount after conversion in INR was far above the highest limit I had on any of the credit cards.

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