{"id":989197,"date":"2026-02-02T08:28:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989197"},"modified":"2026-02-02T08:34:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:04:24","slug":"aadhaar-pan-linking-rules-nris-must-follow-to-avoid-inoperative-pan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/02\/aadhaar-pan-linking-rules-nris-must-follow-to-avoid-inoperative-pan\/","title":{"rendered":"Aadhaar-PAN linking rules NRIs must follow to avoid inoperative PAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Aadhaar card is not mandatory for non-resident Indians. However, a Permanent Account Number (PAN) card is. A PAN card is mandatory for NRIs when they file an income tax return (ITR) in India. While an Aadhaar card is not mandatory for NRIs, it can be used as proof of identity when opening a bank account or applying for a driving license, etc. <\/p>\n<p>Income tax laws require PAN and an Aadhaar card number to be linked. But if you do not link Aadhaar with PAN, your Permanent Account Number becomes inoperative. Without an active PAN, NRIs won\u2019t be able to do many things, including filing of ITR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Aadhaar card is not mandatory for non-resident Indians. However, a Permanent Account Number (PAN) card is. A PAN card is mandatory for NRIs when they file an income tax return (ITR) in India. While an Aadhaar card is not mandatory for NRIs, it can be used as proof of identity when opening a bank account or applying for a driving license, etc. Income tax laws require PAN and an Aadhaar card number to be linked. But if you do not link Aadhaar with PAN, your Permanent Account Number becomes inoperative. Without an active PAN, NRIs won\u2019t be able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}