What is Forex/Currency Exchange limit in India ? 

How much cash can i carry from India while going abroad ?

Are you planning to visit abroad for your business visits, studying, holidays ETC, You must know your currency exchange limits before you are planning to abroad or visit India. You should aware how much money you can carry abroad, how much you can carry through forex travel card or cheque.  In this article, we will discuss about all of your questions.

While going out of India, every person has to go through customs clearance, the same customs clearance process is followed when any person travels from abroad to India. According to the rule and regulation of RBI (Reserve Bank of India), the limit of forex exchange carrying varies for the different purpose of visit. However, RBI has subsumed most of the purpose under the LRS scheme with overall limit of USD 250000/- or equivalent during a financial year.


An individual resident/person, going abroad for their personal visit, education, medical treatment can carry up to USD 3000 in cash and balance through travel card/ remittance/demand draft.


An Individual going abroad for business related purpose and sponsored by the company can carry up to USD 3000 in cash and balance requirement in form of travel card.



There is no limit on foreign exchange when a NRI/Foreigner travel from other country to India. Please go through your country specific limit before you are planning to visit India. However, they need to declare in form of CDF (Custom Declaration Form) at Customs, where the aggregate values of foreign exchange exceed USD 10000/- or equivalent and/or the aggregate value of currency notes alone exceeds USD 5000/- or its equivalent.

Note: The currency exchange limit mentioned in this article may be differ, we suggest you to verify the content with RBI official website. 
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