How to update PAN and residential status when you become an NRI

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This guide walks an Indian resident who has become a Non-Resident Indian through the two-part change that must follow: updating the PAN residential status to non-resident on the Income Tax Department records, then converting the resident Zerodha account to an NRI-NRO account through a re-KYC. The same two steps run in reverse, with the residential status flipping back to resident, when an NRI returns to India and becomes a resident again.

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How to update PAN and residential status when you become an NRI