
Revised & Expanded 2026 Edition
Why Immigrants Failed to Build Wealth
The Money Traps That Hold Newcomers Back, and How to Build Passive Income and Lasting Wealth in America
$9.99 · PDF + EPUB · 85 pages
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NRI to USA publishes short, practical ebooks for NRIs and new immigrants, written by Deepak Middha, CA. The first, Why Immigrants Failed to Build Wealth (Revised & Expanded 2026 Edition), explains the ten money traps that keep newcomers poor and what to open, fund and avoid at each visa stage. $9.99, PDF + EPUB, with Chapter One free.

Revised & Expanded 2026 Edition
The Money Traps That Hold Newcomers Back, and How to Build Passive Income and Lasting Wealth in America
$9.99 · PDF + EPUB · 85 pages
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Next up: a return-to-India money playbook and a first-year-in-America checklist book. Until then, the Return to India checklist and the free calculators cover the same ground.
One so far: Why Immigrants Failed to Build Wealth, the Revised & Expanded 2026 Edition, an 85-page ebook on the money traps that keep newcomers from building wealth in America and the accounts, habits and plan that fix them. More titles for NRIs and immigrants are in preparation; the hub lists each one as it is published.
By instant download and by email. After checkout with a card (Stripe) or PayPal, the thank-you page shows download buttons for the PDF and the EPUB, and the same links arrive by email within minutes. Links are valid for 30 days; you can request a new one from the book page at any time.
Yes. Each book page has a free sample: for Why Immigrants Failed to Build Wealth it is the cover, the table of contents and all of Chapter One, the ten money traps with a dollar cost on each. Enter your email and the sample PDF is sent to you with a link that works for seven days.
Yes, the book is also listed on Amazon Kindle; the link is on the book page. Buying here gets you both PDF and EPUB with no DRM, the free 2027 edition and a 14-day refund. Buying on Amazon gets you the Kindle integration and Amazon's return policy. The content is the same.
Deepak Middha, a Chartered Accountant with 18 years in the hedge fund and alternative-investment industry and a Series 65 holder, who arrived in the US with student and marriage loans and built wealth through stocks, options, foreclosure and rental real estate and businesses. He is the founder of NRI to USA and writes all of its books and calculators.
Yes. Every ebook bought here carries a 14-day, no-questions refund to the original payment method. Write to team@nritousa.com from the email you used at checkout and the refund is issued manually, normally within two business days. Purchases made on Amazon follow Amazon's own policy.
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