What is An NRI?

Non-resident Indian. Who is a non-resident Indian?

 

Is it only someone who is a Citizen of India residing outside of India? Or can it also be any person of Indian origin who still maintains an Indian identity either on paper or in practice?

 

After this website started, there were mixed responses. There were some who readily accepted the site and immediately related to it while others shot back by saying 'But I am not an NRI, I am a Local."

 

Of course, you are a Singaporean, or British, or American or of any other nationality of the country you are a citizen of. However, the Indian here (in the case of this magazine) refers not so much to nationality but to an identity, descent, origins, ancestory, roots and race. Its goes much deeper.

 

If you hold an Indian Passport and live outside India, no doubt, you are an NRI. If you hold a Singapore passport, have Indian printed on your Identity Card, fill up Indian under the 'Race' portions of forms or speak an Indian dialect as your mother tongue, are a product of a mixed marriage where at least one parent is an Indian, than I ask you this, are you an Indian? If so, than are you an NRI?

 

Lets discuss this at www.nri.singapore.com/forum

NRI Facts

· NRI is a shorter term for Non-Resident Indian

· PIO stands for Person on Indian Origin

· High Commission of India in Singapore is located at 31 Grange Road

 

· The Indian High Commissioner to Singapore is Dr. S. Jaishankar

· Indians make up 8.4% of Singapore’s population

· There are an additional 90,000 expatriate Indians in Singapore

 

· There are at least 10 Indian financial institutions (Banks and Insurance companies ) in Singapore

 

· Total Bilateral Trade between Singapore and India stood at S$18.34 billion in the period of Jan-Nov 2006.

 

· Four out of ten Silicon Valley are run by Indians.

 

· One of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems, Vinod Khosla, is an Indian.

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· Creator of a Pentium Chip, Vinod Dahm, is an Indian.

 

· The founder and creator of Hotmail, Sabeer Bhatia, is an Indian.

 

· The man responsible to solve the problems of Windows 2000 is SanjayTejwrika, the Microsoft Testing Director.

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