+91 · On-ground desk
Your flat, your filings, your paperwork, your parents. A chartered accountant who goes and stands in the room, and tells you plainly what happened.
Wherever you moved
+1 +44 +971 +65 +61 +91 is still your tax home.
A new number, a new address, a new passport — none of it closes the file India still holds in your name. The property, the PAN, the accounts and the returns stay exactly where they were.
What distance actually costs
A tenant stops paying in Pune. You find out in month three.
By then the arrears are a negotiation, not a demand. Someone has to knock on the door.
Form 15CB needs a signature. Your bank wants it before Friday.
The remittance stalls, the exchange window moves, and the buyer’s money sits in an NRO account.
Your mother’s appointment is at 11:40 a.m. Someone has to be in the room.
Not to decide anything — to write down what the doctor said and send it to you before you wake up.
The register
Reliable professionals doing the ground work, so you are not managing it from six time zones away.
End-to-end custody of a flat, plot or house you can’t visit. Verified tenants, registered leave-and-licence agreements, rent collected into your NRO account, society dues paid, and a dated photo record of every inspection.
Drafting and consular attestation of a Special Power of Attorney, adjudication and stamping in India, 30-year title search before you buy, succession certificates, and representation in property disputes.
Moving money out of India correctly. CA-certified Form 15CB and the matching 15CA filing, a lower-deduction certificate so 20%+ TDS doesn’t sit with the department for a year, capital gains computation and your annual NRI return.
For holdings that have quietly slipped out of the system. Dormant bank accounts, shares and dividends transferred to the IEPF, forgotten mutual fund folios and insurance policies, ancestral property nobody has traced in a generation. We search the registries, establish your entitlement, and file the claim.
A named care manager in your parents’ city who accompanies them to appointments, collects reports, coordinates diagnostics and medicine delivery, and sends you a written summary the same day. An escalation number that a human answers.
The unglamorous list that blocks everything else: reactivating a dormant NRE/NRO account, re-KYC, PAN corrections and Aadhaar updates, MEA apostille and embassy attestation of documents issued abroad.
Planning the move back in the right order. RNOR status mapped against your date of return so foreign income stays outside the Indian net while it can, transfer-of-residence customs relief, cargo and vehicle clearance, and account restructuring.
Before you call
Three questions. You get the instruments involved, the documents to start gathering, and a realistic timeline — whether or not you ever write in.
1 · What do you need to do?
2 · Can you travel to India for it?
3 · Is someone in India able to sign for you?
This runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is sent, no email is asked for, and we have no idea you used it unless you choose to write in.
Pick an answer to the first question and this panel fills in with the instruments, paperwork and timeline your situation involves.
Take this to a conversation
Indicative only. The exact route depends on your residency status, the state the property sits in, and the dates involved. This is not tax or legal advice.
How an engagement runs
A call in your timezone. You describe the situation; I tell you what is actually required, and what you can do yourself without me.
A written scope: the deliverable, the documents needed from you, and the statutory timelines that govern it. You approve it before anything begins.
Where the law needs your signature in India, we prepare the Special PoA and walk it through consular attestation and adjudication. Then the work runs — filings, visits, registrations.
Every acknowledgement number, challan, registered document and dated photograph, in one folder that stays yours. Nothing lives only in my office.
Why this matters to you
Almost every problem that stalls a sale is a paperwork problem — and finding those is a trained skill.
Forensic accounting means reading documents for what is missing rather than what is written: a gap in the chain of ownership, a payment nobody can produce a receipt for, an authority that won’t survive scrutiny at the registrar’s counter. It is detective work done on paper.
I trained in it — anti-bribery investigations, transaction audits under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, and forensic analytics: the kind of work usually reserved for large firms. The point is not the job titles. It is that the same habit of checking, applied to your father’s property file, tends to surface the problem months before a buyer’s lawyer does — which is the difference between a phone call and a collapsed sale.
Status, documents, acknowledgement numbers and receipts, timestamped — not a fortnightly “it’s in process”.
Filings signed by ICAI chartered accountants; legal drafting and appearance by Bar Council registered advocates.
Calls booked in your local evening. Written updates land before your morning, wherever that is.
Straight answers
The senior hand
Twenty-five years before NRI91 had a name, Kishan Verma was already doing the work — as a Partner at KPRK & Associates in Nagpur, where he still practises.
His day is statutory and tax audits, GST, ROC filings, and the kind of advisory that begins with someone putting a folder on the desk and saying they don’t know where to start. A growing share of those folders belong to people who no longer live in India: a treaty question that decides which country gets to tax a pension, an NRE account that quietly went dormant, a property sale where the buyer deducted tax on the whole sale price instead of on the gain.
Twenty-five years teaches you the one thing you cannot shortcut — which problems are genuinely problems, and which only look like them. Most of what frightens a client on the first call turns out to be the second kind. Knowing the difference before the meter starts running is, in practice, the whole service.
The founder
Eight months. That’s how long a man in New Jersey had been trying to sell a flat in India.
Not a difficult flat. Not a disputed one. A perfectly ordinary two-bedroom he owned with his sister, in a building he’d grown up in, with clean papers and a willing buyer. And still — eight months of nothing.
Because here’s what nobody tells you about owning something in a country you’ve left. The law isn’t your obstacle. Geography is. The registrar’s office opens at ten and closes at five, and by the time it opens, he’s asleep. Every signature has to cross an ocean twice and come back with a stamp on it. And every single person he called in India explained the problem to him with great authority, great sympathy, and then quietly did nothing.
He didn’t need advice. He had a WhatsApp group full of advice. He needed a person standing in the room.
So I stood in the room. Power of attorney drawn properly, capital gains worked out to the rupee, TDS handled before it became a nightmare, money moved cleanly to his account abroad. He signed one set of papers. Three weeks later he called me, slightly stunned, to ask if that was really all of it.
It was.
I understand that man better than he knew. My childhood was in Delhi, but home has always meant Nagpur — and I have spent most of my adult life away from it, which is its own quiet education.
Kolkata came first, for a B.Com Honours at St. Xavier’s, where I learned that precision is a form of respect. Then Mumbai, and an RVG hostel — a few hundred of us under one roof, all far from home, all learning to run a life at a distance from the people who loved us. You look after each other in a place like that. Someone’s father falls ill and someone else makes the calls. Someone can’t get home, so someone else goes in his place. I didn’t know it then, but that was the real apprenticeship. Everything since has been a variation on it.
The formal one came later: Chartered Accountant, trained at BDO India, where I spent three years learning to read what a document is actually saying rather than what it’s pretending to say. That training matters — but it was never the hard part.
The hard part is the thing you already know. You’re building a whole life over there while a piece of your life sits back here, in a file, in a queue, in an office that shuts at five, quietly ageing.
I should tell you the other half of me too. I’ve spent years on stages with a microphone in my hand — anchoring events, writing speeches for people who have to stand in front of a crowd and mean every word. People assume that has nothing to do with tax law. It has everything to do with it. Both are the same craft: taking something tangled and saying it so plainly that a human being can act on it. If a professional has ever left you more confused than before you called them, you’ll understand why I’m particular about this.
So that’s the work. Property that needs selling. Taxes that need filing. Money that needs to come home, or go. Parents who need someone to check in on them on a Tuesday. Legal papers, KYC, the whole unglamorous machinery of still belonging to a place you no longer live in.
You’ve got a life to run over there.
Let me be your hands over here.
Three details, nothing more. I’ll come back to you and we can talk about the rest properly.
I’ll come back to you shortly, and we can find a time that suits your evening.