Your NRI PAN Card is Inoperative & You Don't Know It

16 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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This content was created by Pratibha Sharma. This content was uploaded by Pratibha Sharma. This is a YouTube video titled "Your NRI PAN Card is Inoperative & You Don't Know It" (created 2026-07-16). A single presenter addresses NRIs in English, explaining that many PAN cards were marked inoperative in 2023 if the Income Tax Department wasn't informed, which can cause higher TDS and stuck refunds. The speaker gives a step-by-step fix: log into the Income Tax Portal, submit a grievance, select AU as the department, choose PAN status → PAN wrongly marked as inoperative, attach PAN and passport, submit to get a tracking number; resolution typically takes 7–30 days. The presenter also offers to provide a request template on comment ("PAN sample") and asks viewers to follow for more NRI tax/money updates.

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Your PAN card is inoperative right now and you don't even know about it. If you are an NRI and you never told the Income Tax Department, your PAN card got deactivated in 2023. That's why your TDS is higher and your refund is stuck. And here's the part nobody tells you: that status isn't on your PAN card, it's in the Income Tax database. So no, you don't need a new PAN. The fix just takes 5 minutes. Log in to Income Tax Portal And go to grievances. Then click submit grievances. Select AU as the department in the category. Choose PAN status, and in the subcategory you will actually find an option called PAN wrongly marked as inoperative. Yes, it literally exists. Select it, write one simple request, attach your PAN card and passport copy, and hit submit. You will get a tracking number, and it usually gets resolved within seven to thirty days. So I have written the exact request template you need to send. Comment PAN sample. I will send you it, and I will send it to you. And don't forget to follow us for the more NRI tax and money updates like this.