Eligibility For FCNR (B) Account Opening

Please click here to know about the eligibility requirements for opening an FCNR (B) Account

Permissible Credits

• Transfer from another NRE / FCNR (B) account
• Transfer from another NRO account (subject to limit)
• Fresh remittance from overseas through banking channel
• Personal cheques drawn on foreign account
• Proceeds of Foreign Currency Notes / Travelers cheques tendered by NRI / PIO / OCI, while visiting India. Amounts in excess of USD 5000 (or equivalent) in currency or USD 10,000/- (or equivalent) in Travelers cheques should be accompanied by a Currency Declaration Form

Types of Foreign Currency Non-Resident (Bank) Account - FCNR (B) Account

Term Deposits (TDR) -

• Interest is paid at a frequency of 180 days from date of Term Deposit
• Foreign Currency deposits of fixed tenure
• Minimum Deposit of USD 1000, GBP 1000, EURO 1000, CAD 1000, JPY 100000 or AUD 1000
• Principal & interest amount are fully repatriable
• Nomination facility available
• You can avail a loan/overdraft against your deposit
• Premature withdrawal permissible
• Automatic renewal on maturity for the same period but at the then prevailing rate of interest.

Special Term Deposits (STDR) -

• Enjoy higher returns, with interest both on your deposit and on the interest accrued i.e. interest gets compounded after every 180 days
• Foreign Currency deposits of fixed tenure
• Minimum Deposit of USD 1000, GBP 1000, EURO 1000, CAD 1000, JPY 100000 or AUD 1000
• Principal & interest amount are fully repatriable
• Nomination facility available
• You can avail a loan/overdraft against your deposit
• Premature withdrawal permissible
• Automatic renewal on maturity for the same period but at the then prevailing rate of interest. 1

Loans against FCNR (B) Account

You can avail a loan in Indian rupees or in Foreign Currency against the security of FCNR (B) TDR / STDR deposits.

You need not close the deposit prematurely, and can avail the loan at the branch where you maintain the deposit, as an overdraft or as a demand loan Maximum loan of 90% of the face value of deposit, and including the interest accrued on the deposit at an interest rate linked to the prevailing base rate, for loan in India rupee

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Funds transfer from FCNR (B) to overseas account

The funds held in FCNR (B) account are fully repatriable i.e. funds can be transferred to any overseas account. You can place a request for transfer of funds as per any of the following mode:

• Through Internet Banking (INB): For placing outward remittance or funds transfer request (forex) favouring yourself or third party from your NRE Savings Bank account or NRE fixed deposit account or FCNR (B) account holders to any account overseas. For this, you have to first add a ‘beneficiary’ and then place a request for remittance in his/her favour. The ‘beneficiary’ is to be added only once and the details thereof will be stored in our system, thereby enabling you to send multiple remittances to him/her at any time subsequently.
• Procedure to add beneficiary for remittance:
• Please login to your INB account
• Click on ‘Profile’ tab
• Enter your profile Password
• Click on ‘Manage Beneficiary’
• Click on ‘Outward Remittance Beneficiary for NRE / FCNR (B) Account’
• Enter details of beneficiary and submit it after entering OTP sent on your registered mobile number
• Procedure for placing the remittance request:
• Please login to your INB account
• Click on ‘e-Services’ tab
• Click on ‘NRI Services’ appearing in the column on left hand side
• Click on ‘Outward Remittance from NRE / FCNR (B) Account’
• Please select / enter request details and proceed accordingly
• Through Branch: Please download a standard request letter by clicking on ‘For outward remittance from NRE / FCNR (B) account’ from ‘Download Forms’ and post / courier it your home branch. Please note that such request coming through email cannot be acted upon, due to security reasons.

Procedure to open a FCNR (B) Account

You can place a request for creating FCNR (B) deposit as per any of the following mode:

• By sending fresh remittance from overseas: If you are sending fresh remittance from your overseas account for purpose of creating FCNR (B) deposit, then please mention the following message in the remittance message section along with the required details of creation of deposit:

Please create FCNR (B) deposit as per following details:

• Please mention the currency in which deposit has to be created (USD / GBP / EURO / CAD / AUD / JPY)
• Please mention the amount of deposit to be created
• Please mention the tenor of deposit to be created

• Through Internet Banking (INB): By the way of debiting NRE or NRO account, as per following procedure:
  • Please login to your INB account
  • Click on ‘e-Services’ tab
  • Click on ‘NRI Services’ on left hand side column
  • Click on ‘Inward Remittance Disposal Request’
  • Please select / enter request details and click on Submit
• Through Branch: You can post / courier or submit in a person a request letter for creation of deposit by debiting NRE or NRO account. Please click here to download the standard request letter.

Joint account of Non- Residents with Residents

NRI/PIO/OCI customers are permitted to open and maintain their FCNR (B) accounts with their resident relative(s) (as mentioned below) as a joint holder on “Former or Survivor” basis (NRI/PIO/OCI being the former);

• They are members of a Hindu Undivided Family;
• They are husband and wife; or
• one person is related to the other in such manner as may be prescribed;
  • Father (Provided that the term “Father” includes step-father)
  • Mother (Provided that the term “Mother” includes step-mother)
  • Son (Provided that the term “Son” includes step-son)
  • Son’s wife
  • Daughter
  • Daughter’s husband
  • Brother (Provided that the term “Brother” includes step-brother)
  • Sister (Provided that the term “Sister” includes step-sister)

Interest payable on deposit of deceased depositor:

In terms of RBI Master Direction, interest on term deposits standing in the name(s) of a deceased FCNR (B) individual depositor or two or more joint depositors where one of the depositors has died, as under:

• If paid on maturity of the deposit, interest shall be paid at the contracted rate;
• If the deposit is claimed before the maturity date, interest shall be paid not at the contracted rate but at the rate applicable to the period for which the deposit remained with the bank and without charging penalty for pre-payment;
• In case the depositor dies before the date of maturity of the deposit but the amount of the deposit is claimed after the date of maturity, interest shall be paid at the contracted rate till the date of maturity and simple interest at the applicable rate operative on the date of maturity for the period for which the deposit remained with the bank beyond the date of maturity.
• In case of death of the depositor after the date of maturity of the deposit, the interest rate operative on the date of maturity in respect of Savings Bank deposits held under Resident Foreign Currency (RFC) Account Scheme shall be paid from the date of maturity till the date of payment. Interest shall be paid at notional rates while converting FCNR (B) Account into RFC / Resident Rupee Account even if the deposit has not completed the minimum maturity period. Interest shall be paid for period for which the deposit remained with the Bank.
• In case the claimants are residents, the maturity proceeds shall be converted into Indian Rupees on the date of maturity and interest shall be paid for the subsequent period at the rate applicable to a domestic Term Deposit of similar maturity.