Changelog and corrections

2026-10-15 · fix

Fixed a page error on the H-1B layoff page. The server-rendered page and the browser disagreed about one style block, the print rule that hides the site navigation, so the browser reported a hydration error and rebuilt the page after loading; the rule also arrived with escaped quotation marks. Both sides now produce the same block, and a test hydrates the real page and fails on any hydration error. No rule, date calculation or stored data changed.

2026-10-15 · update

The Tools index and the home page now show the H-1B layoff page as its own card, "Laid off on an H-1B: what do I do, and by when?". The page counts 60 days from your last working day and builds a week-by-week plan. Each of the two Wind-Down Planner pages now carries its own structured data, and the layoff page names the planner as its parent.

2026-10-15 · update

Search and social crawlers may now fetch the static script files under /_next/static/ and the blog share images under /api/og/, which a blanket block on /_next/ and /api/ had kept from them. The rest of /api/, /auth/, the image optimizer, /_next/data/ and the wizard stay disallowed, and the rules for AI crawlers are unchanged.

2026-10-15 · update

Clarified the analytics wording. Besides the verdict category of the RNOR calculator (NR, RNOR or ROR), the Wind-Down Planner may send its mode, planned or layoff. Both are fixed categories; amounts, ages, day counts, entered dates, email addresses, input text and full result text remain excluded.

2026-10-10 · new

Added four guides for leaving the US: selling a US home before the move (the exclusion window and FIRPTA timing), RSUs and ESPP when you leave a US job, US Social Security after moving to India (the 40-credit and 10-year rule), and the sailing permit (Form 2063 or 1040-C). Each carries a last-verified date of 9 October 2026. The Wind-Down Planner is now linked from the RNOR calculator, the RNOR window planner, the NRE redesignation tool, the checklist and six existing posts.

2026-10-09 · correction

Corrected four points in the planner. In the FIRE comparison, 15% FIRPTA withholding now counts only when the home sale in your plan cannot close before you leave; otherwise the results say that no withholding applies. The decision about keeping sale proceeds outside India until the sale completes, hidden until its source could be confirmed, is now shown, citing section 5(1)(c) of the Income-tax Act, 2025 and section 5(1), proviso, of the 1961 Act for earlier tax years; income received in India is still included. The comparison is now described as your plan after its sales and moves, not a forecast for a return date. The last-updated date of an imported RebaseNest plan is now the date the plan last changed, stored on your device, and is left out when unknown.

2026-10-09 · update

The planner can now read your RebaseNest plan when one is saved in this browser. The read is local and read-only: it pre-fills the answers it can map from your assets (US home, brokerage, retirement accounts, Indian funds and accounts), asks only for what is missing and warns when the saved plan is more than 90 days old. A new section, "What leaving does to your FIRE plan", sets your plan today beside your plan after the sales and moves in your timeline, before tax and selling costs. Nothing leaves your device and the planner writes nothing to your RebaseNest plan.

2026-10-09 · new

Added the Wind-Down Planner for people leaving the US for India. Enter a departure date, or a last working day after a job loss, and it builds a dated plan: what you could lose, decisions to make, a timeline with overdue and conflicting dates, what to do after you land, and money at risk by category, never as one total. A separate H-1B layoff page counts the 60-day grace period from your last working day, citing 8 CFR 214.1(l)(2), and stops at your I-94 end date if that is sooner. Each rule shows its source and the date it was last checked, and tax items say to confirm with a cross-border CPA. Saving, printing, the calendar file and clearing all run in your browser. Entries are not sent anywhere; analytics receives only the tool, the action and the mode, planned or layoff. This is planning information, not tax or legal advice.

2026-10-09 · update

Citations of the residency rules now name both Acts: section 6 of the Income-tax Act, 2025 for tax years starting on or after 1 April 2026 and section 6 of the 1961 Act for earlier years. The wording changed on the RNOR calculator, its correctness page, the RNOR window planner, this sources page and the tool footer, and the Wind-Down Planner now says "tax year". No calculation changed.

2026-10-09 · update

Revised the privacy page to match what the code does. It now carries the review date, 20 September 2026, and says that tools can reuse your landing date, origin, trip log and checked RNOR details within this browser, and that sample-household edits are temporary and kept apart from your own scenarios. It lists what analytics may receive: page visits and allow-listed tool and action categories, never amounts, ages, day counts, entered dates, email addresses, input text or full result text. It states that session replay is disabled in this version and that the production recording period and the masking of earlier recordings cannot be verified.

2026-10-09 · update

Made the simulator easier to enter and read. The main navigation now links to the Dashboard. Sample-household edits stay separate from your own records, finishing setup goes to Overview, and Overview leads with three summary cards, keeps the detailed figures collapsed and shows the checked RNOR residency context where it applies. Financial and tax calculation engines were not changed.

2026-10-09 · update

Simplified the checklist actions: the 45 original titles are kept without subtitle lines, and one calendar control now sits beside Print once a valid landing date exists. The checklist reuses the landing date saved in this browser.

2026-10-09 · update

Decluttered the calculator and put the answer first. A result now shows a qualified verdict, the modelled RNOR years, what the verdict means and the exact local calendar dates, with an Add to my calendar download; the statute text and working stay in collapsed sections. Next-step links open the other tools without putting any entry in the URL, and those tools reuse your landing date, origin and checked history from this browser. A Quick result no longer shows the previous NR verdict for a moment after you submit. The calculation engines were not changed.

2026-10-09 · update

The home page and the Tools index now lead with the three questions that decide the move, with the RNOR calculator marked as the place to start, plain-language introductions and the checklist shown as a card; the simulator is offered as a beta for the whole household picture. Public pages share one set of navigation and footer destinations, and the simulator has a link back to the public site. No calculation changed.

2026-09-11 · update

Verified the existing correction for double-counted school costs. Option A keeps child living costs separate from education. The Bangalore Gold sample, with children aged 8 and 12 and an assumed Rs 100,000 lifestyle budget, remains Rs 121,840 per month before and after this run. Its simple 3.5% withdrawal illustration remains Rs 41,773,714; this is not a retirement survival forecast. Four public fixtures now guard the accounting.

2026-09-11 · update

Residency citations now select the 1961 or 2025 Act by year. Thirteen boundary cases give identical decisions across the Act transition. Calendar wording no longer suggests that banking changes can wait for RNOR to end.

2026-09-11 · correction

Disabled cloud financial sync and analytics replay, removed GA4, restricted analytics to categorical properties, and moved new input-bearing links to browser fragments. The privacy policy now describes device-only scenarios and separately disclosed optional submissions.

2026-09-11 · update

Removed simulated visitor activity and the mock dashboard. The homepage now shows the actual tool catalog and a labelled screenshot of published RNOR reference case 2.

2026-09-11 · new

Added quick and expert modes, an editable ten-year history, local trip-day counting and a private history handoff to the Window Planner.

2026-09-11 · correction

Repaired inconsistent four-year and seven-year totals in cases 5, 6 and 9 without changing their expected verdicts. Removed the unsupported implication that a tax-residency certificate alone establishes foreign tax liability. All 13 reference cases must now return zero warnings.

2026-09-11 · new

Replaced unsupported review-pipeline promises with a source-record policy, distinguished update dates from verification dates, and added an explicit optional correction channel. Missing historical verification records are identified rather than assigned new dates.

2026-09-11 · new

Added five Window Planner reference cases and six banking-date cases. Expected outputs are declared separately and mismatches fail the build. Bank-date cases do not certify all RFC eligibility or tax statements.

2026-09-11 · update

Linked structured data to the RebaseNest organization, added visible article FAQs matching their schema, and extracted primary citations from each article. Citation extraction does not establish that an article was reverified.

2026-09-11 · correction

Merged the overlapping banking guides, removed invented grace periods and corrected the claim that permitted FCNR(B) continuation is itself a contravention. Current RBI RFC credit rules replace the unsupported one-year-abroad shortcut. The planner now treats an unsettled purpose as unresolved and flags unverified 2025 interest-tax provisions.

2026-09-11 · correction

Replaced premature retirement verdicts with blank required inputs, direct cash runway and a separate 3%-4% withdrawal range. The entered city budget is no longer silently multiplied by a rent benchmark. Withdrawals are not investment returns or guaranteed income, and the illustration does not establish retirement readiness. The shared simulator engine and stored scenarios were not changed.

2026-09-11 · new

Added separate date-specific FEMA and selected-year income-tax results using a shared device-only India trip log. Thirteen published fixtures cover the strict preceding-year threshold, purpose exclusions and return-date differences. The explainer now cites RBI sources that were read, separates immediate NRE/NRO action from permitted FCNR maturity, and identifies verification limits.

2026-09-11 · new

Added 45 linked planning actions across seven return phases, local progress, printable pages and calendar checkpoints. Phase dates are not legal deadlines. The optional gated email sends only an email address and landing date, not progress; confirmation enables landing reminders only. The related explainer no longer states an unverified Form 67 deadline or defers immediate NRE action.

2026-09-11 · new

Added six ordered return-stage reading lists and article breadcrumbs. Every listed article has one stage; each calculator links to three articles and another tool. The blog remains chronological. A US-accounts overview distinguishes provider policies from the IRS reporting guidance actually reviewed. Taxonomy does not confer source verification on legacy articles.

2026-09-11 · new

Added an embeddable RNOR calculator using the existing engine. Only embed subroutes permit framing; the main-site policy is unchanged. The frame omits lead forms, sharing and site chrome, uses no cookies and allows only hostname-level embed telemetry. Host documentation includes attribution and privacy limits.

2026-09-11 · correction

Replaced the retired origin-ratio comparator with a comparison of entered household budgets. The India budget is invariant across seven overseas origins; only currency conversion uses the provider-dated server FX snapshot. Missing dated rates do not receive a made-up fallback. RNOR, Window and banking tools now offer origin-country notes without changing their engines or financial inputs.

2026-09-11 · update

Expanded the server-rendered simulator introduction with explicit beta limits, device-only storage, public reference cases and three actual sample-household screenshots. The client application and saved-scenario contracts are unchanged; no account or cloud sync is required or enabled.

2026-09-11 · new

Added an explicitly consented return-experience submission mechanism behind the existing email feature gate. The exact fields are previewed before a plaintext support email; no story database or automatic publication exists. No stories have been published and no Stories navigation item has been added.

2026-09-11 · correction

Retained underlying RNOR diagnostics in planner candidates and made public reference checks reject reported warnings. Shared correctness pages now display the checked warning total. Retired editorial routes redirect at the page boundary as well as middleware, so obsolete review-pipeline claims are no longer generated.