Tools for Indians in the USA

NRI Wealth Checkup

Map your U.S. and India assets, income, accounts, and property to generate an educational FBAR, FATCA, PFIC, foreign tax credit, and CPA/CA checklist.

Immigration Tracker

Track the visa bulletin, priority dates, USCIS processing, and the green card line for India in one personalized dashboard.

Term Life Needs Calculator

Estimate your family's term life insurance coverage gap — U.S. income replacement, mortgage, children, and India/home-country support and debts. Educational only.

Priority Date Checker

Compare your EB green card priority date against the current visa bulletin Final Action Date and Dates for Filing for India. Uses manually updated monthly bulletin data — always verify with the official State Department bulletin.

Green Card Stage Finder

Where are you in the green card process? Answer questions about your visa, EB category, PERM, I-140, priority date, and I-485 filing to get your current stage, what happens next, the main bottleneck, and questions to ask your employer's immigration attorney. No personal information collected.

H1B Transfer Checklist

Laid off, changing jobs, or navigating an H1B transfer? Answer a few questions about your employment status, petition filing, I-94 validity, and travel plans to get an educational risk assessment and a list of documents to collect.

Processing Delay Checker

Is your H1B, I-140, I-485, or EAD case delayed? Select your form type, receipt date, and current status to get an educational assessment of whether your case is within normal range — and what to do next. No personal information collected.

Receipt Prefix Decoder

What does your USCIS receipt number prefix mean? Select IOE, LIN, SRC, EAC, WAC, or MSC to learn which service center has your case, what forms it handles, and what the prefix does NOT tell you. No full receipt number required.

Life Decision Checklist

Navigating a major life decision — changing jobs, buying a house, traveling to India, starting a business, or filing I-485 — while your immigration case is pending? Select your situation, status, and green card stage for a personalized risk level and action checklist. No personal immigration identifiers collected.

USCIS Form Finder

Not sure which USCIS form applies to your situation? Select your immigration scenario, current status, and who is filing to instantly identify the right form — I-129, I-140, I-485, I-765, I-131, I-539, AR-11, N-400, and more. Plain-English explanation included. No personal information collected.

USCIS Notice Decoder

Received a USCIS notice and not sure what it means? Select the notice type, related form, and your situation to get a plain-English explanation, what to check, deadline warnings, and whether to contact your attorney. No personal information collected.

USCIS Status Decoder

Select your form type and current USCIS status to get a plain-English explanation, what usually happens next, your action steps, and when to contact your attorney. No receipt number or personal details needed.

H-4 EAD Navigator

What can an H-4 EAD spouse actually do? A playful pathfinder to matched work & business ideas, myth-vs-reality answers, an EAD renewal gap calculator, and tappable start-earning / start-a-business checklists.

Citizenship Checklist

Personalized N-400 naturalization checklist: compute your earliest filing date, find out which civics test applies to you (2025 vs 2008), surface your risk areas, and track every step to the oath.

Green Card Tracker

See how many applicants are ahead of you in line from the USCIS I-485 inventory, the current visa bulletin cutoff for your EB category, how far your priority date is behind, and an honest estimated wait range.

H-1B Salaries

Interactive H-1B salary explorer: change position, city, and experience level to watch the charts update, compare cities side by side, and drop in your offer to see your percentile — built from official DOL LCA filings.

Visa-Free Travel

Filterable list of where Indians can travel visa-free, with visa on arrival or e-Visa — including destinations that get easier with a valid US visa.

Processing Times

Typical current waits for H-1B extensions, I-140, I-485, EAD/AP, OCI cards, Indian passport renewal, and US visa stamping in India — in one table.

H-1B Lottery

A personalized H-1B cap-season timeline: enter your cycle and stage to see your registration, selection, filing, and start-date milestones, a live countdown to your next key date, and what to do at each step.

Flight Price Guide

Estimate whether USA–India fares for your route, month, and travel style are likely low, moderate, or high — with booking-window tips, a flexibility score, and a money-saving checklist.

DIY Tax Filing Roadmap

Answer a few simple questions and see which U.S. and India tax forms, deadlines, documents, and NRItoUSA tools may apply — FBAR, FATCA, Form 1040, India ITR, TDS refund, Form 10F, and 15CA/15CB. Educational roadmap only.

FBAR / FATCA

Answer a few questions about your Indian accounts to see whether FBAR or FATCA (Form 8938) may need review — with a document checklist and CPA question list. Educational only.

Form 10F Generator

Prepare a clean, printable Form 10F draft to claim India–US DTAA treaty benefits: enter your name, PAN, tax residency period, and foreign tax ID, then copy or download the seven-field declaration. Runs entirely in your browser — educational only.

TDS Refund Checklist

Answer a few questions about your Indian income type, what TDS was deducted, your PAN and DTAA documents, and whether you've filed — to get a tailored document checklist, the likely next review step, and questions for your CA. Educational only, runs entirely in your browser.

15CA / 15CB Checklist

Moving money from India to the USA? Answer a few questions about your source of funds, taxability, TDS, amount, and records to get a tailored document checklist and whether a CA review is strongly recommended. Educational only — it never decides your Form 15CA part or 15CB requirement. Runs entirely in your browser.

Form 3520 Gift Checker

Money or assets from family in India? Answer a few questions — the tax year, the source, the aggregate value, the asset, and where it landed — to get a Form 3520 result with the threshold used, plus FBAR/FATCA and PFIC review flags, the documents to collect, and questions for your CPA and CA. Educational only — it never computes any tax. Runs entirely in your browser.

OCI Eligibility Checker

Not sure if you qualify for an OCI card? Answer a few questions about your citizenship and Indian ancestry — born in India, parents/grandparents Indian, spouse OCI, minor or adult — to see whether you're Eligible, Possibly Eligible, or Not Eligible, with the reasoning and next steps. Runs entirely in your browser; no personal data leaves the page.

OCI Cost Calculator

Estimate the full cost of your OCI application in the USA: government service fee, VFS service charge, ICWF, plus optional return courier, SMS updates, and premium lounge. Pick your service type and number of applicants for a line-by-line total. Fees are centrally maintained — always verify live amounts on VFS before paying.

OCI Timeline Calculator

Enter your application date and see an estimated, stage-by-stage OCI timeline: VFS submission, consulate processing, MHA clearance in India, printing, and dispatch — with expected earliest and latest delivery dates. Processing ranges are centrally maintained and clearly marked as estimates.

H-1B Sponsor Finder

Which employers actually sponsor H-1Bs for your job, in your state? Search by role and state to see a ranked list of companies by certified H-1B LCA volume, with median wages, the DOL wage-level mix, and a 12-month trend. Built from DOL OFLC disclosure data — an LCA is a sponsorship signal, not a petition approval or a job offer.

Visitor Insurance Calculator

Enter the premium, deductible, coinsurance, and policy maximum from your visitor insurance quote or certificate to see a line-by-line estimate of what the insurer may pay and what your family could still owe — not a quote engine, an educational liability estimator.

Plan Comparison

Compare two visitor insurance plans side by side — premium, deductible, coinsurance, policy maximum, and network terms — against the same medical scenario, with an entered-terms completeness check instead of a fake best-plan badge.

Deductible & Coinsurance

See exactly how a visitor insurance deductible and coinsurance apply to a medical bill — per-incident vs per-policy deductibles, copay before or after the deductible, and 80/20 vs 90/10 coinsurance splits, with numbered examples.

Hospital & ER Bill

Model a full episode of care — ambulance, ER facility, ER physician, imaging, lab, hospital room, surgeon — as the separate bills they usually are, and see the estimated insurer payment and your liability for each line.

Network Cost Calculator

See how in-network vs out-of-network treatment changes your liability — billed charge vs allowed amount, potential balance billing, and network-specific coinsurance.

Policy Maximum Calculator

See the difference between a policy maximum and a true out-of-pocket maximum, and whether your entered terms give this plan a contractual cost-sharing ceiling at all.

RNOR / Tax Residency

Find out if you're an NRI, RNOR, or ordinary resident (ROR) for Indian tax — and exactly when your global US income starts becoming taxable in India.

India Property Sale

Estimate capital gains tax and TDS on selling property in India, the 54EC exemption, and how much you can repatriate to the US under the $1M limit.

401(k) Cash Out vs Keep

Moving back to India? Compare cashing out your 401(k) now (after penalty + withholding) against leaving it to compound in USD for retirement.

Backdoor Roth IRA

High income phasing you out of a Roth IRA? Check your eligibility, the pro-rata tax trap, and the steps to a clean backdoor Roth conversion.

Rent vs Buy (Visa)

The only rent vs. buy calculator that factors in your visa, immigration timeline, and relocation risk — built for visa holders, not 30-year US citizens.

Remittance & TCS

See the real cost of an India–US transfer: flat fees, hidden exchange-rate margin, and India's TCS on outward remittances — and the net amount that actually arrives.

FCNR vs HYSA

Compare FCNR fixed deposit returns vs a US High-Yield Savings Account or CD after US income tax. See net returns, tax impact, and a 10-year compounding chart.

DTAA / Foreign Tax Credit

Taxed on the same income in both India and the US? Estimate your Foreign Tax Credit, how much double taxation the DTAA avoids, and any US tax still due or India tax to carry over.

Grade Finder

Enter your child's date of birth to see which US grade they belong in, the school stage (elementary, middle, or high), and your state's kindergarten cutoff date — plus exactly what documents you need to enroll.

GPA Calculator

Add your courses, letter grades, and credit hours to get your unweighted 4.0 GPA and your weighted GPA with AP/IB and Honors bonuses — plus how your number compares to what top colleges expect.

SAT Guide

Move the sliders for your Math and Reading & Writing scores to see your total SAT score, approximate national percentile, and the tier of colleges where that score is competitive.

Tuition Calculator

Project the full four-year cost of college by school type, with tuition inflation, room and board, books and fees, financial aid, and an estimated monthly loan payment — built on 2024–25 national averages.

College Rankings

Sort and filter the top US universities by ranking, acceptance rate, and in-state or out-of-state tuition — with category lists for computer science, engineering, business, value picks, and affordable public schools.

Visit the India Tax & Compliance hub

Deep into the green card journey? See the full visa & green card tools hub →

Looking for India tax calculators?

RNOR residency, property-sale gains, remittance TCS, DTAA credits, 401(k) cash-out, and FBAR/FATCA now live on the India Tax & Compliance hub.

US Investing & Wealth

Retirement, housing, and wealth-building tools for immigrants building their US life

Backdoor Roth IRA

High income phasing you out of a Roth IRA? Check your eligibility, the pro-rata tax trap, and the steps to a clean backdoor Roth conversion.

IUL vs 401(k) vs Taxable

Side-by-side projection of indexed universal life against a 401(k) and a taxable brokerage — caps, floors, fees, death benefit, and a bad-market scenario toggle.

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Rent vs Buy (Visa)

The only rent vs. buy calculator that factors in your visa, immigration timeline, and relocation risk — built for visa holders, not 30-year US citizens.