Reference guides and tools for the move — visas, money and banking, settling in, bringing parents, and studying. General information drawn from primary sources.
Visa subclasses, fees, and what to sort out before you leave India.
Visa guidesTrack invitation rounds and understand the published visa procedures.
EOI trackerThe first-30-days admin chain — TFN, bank, super, Medicare, and renting.
Settling-in guidesVisitor visas, parent-visa pathways, and health cover for visiting relatives.
Parents & familyStudent visa conditions, health cover, and work rights while you study.
Study guidesA step-by-step checklist of the admin to set up after you arrive.
Estimate the Australian Government charges for a visa application.
The latest SkillSelect invitation rounds by subclass and points.
Work out the Indian TCS collected when sending money to Australia.
The RBI's USD 250,000 annual remittance ceiling and the current TCS rates on money sent under it — the ₹10 lakh threshold, the rate by purpose (education, medical, other), and the part most guides bury: TCS isn't a tax you lose, it's a credit against your Indian tax bill.
Once you become a non-resident under India's Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), your existing resident savings account can no longer stay as-is — it must be converted or closed. This guide sets out, factually, what NRE, NRO and FCNR accounts are, what the rules require you to do with existing accounts, PPF, demat and mutual fund holdings, and how repatriation and Australian tax residency interact with each.
A line-by-line family-of-four budget for Sydney and Melbourne in AUD and INR — suburb-level rents in Parramatta, Harris Park, Blacktown, Tarneit, Point Cook and Clayton, an Indian grocery basket, utilities, transport caps, childcare, and what $85k/$110k/$140k salaries become after 2026-27 tax.
A plain-English map of the India-Australia Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement — how residency is decided when you have ties to both countries, how Australia's foreign income tax offset stops you paying tax twice on the same rupee, what the treaty says about salary, Indian rental income, bank interest, dividends and capital gains, and the recent fix (legislated 2022, effective 2023) to a long-running double-tax problem for IT services. General information only — not personalised tax advice.
Your Provident Fund can be claimed from Australia, but the setup has to happen while you're still in India. This guide covers UAN activation, Aadhaar-PAN-bank linking, the EPF vs EPS split, TDS rules, and the exact checklist to finish before you fly.
Six visa options, one honest comparison. This guide sets out — with every fee and queue figure sourced and dated — what the visitor visa (600), the temporary sponsored parent visa (870), the contributory parent visas (143/173) and the non-contributory parent visas (103/804) actually cost, how long they actually take, and what they do and don't give you (permanent residency, Medicare, the right to work). It does not tell you which one to choose.
