Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1 announced several key changes for non-resident Indians (NRIs) in the Budget 2026. The proposals aim to simplify investments and ease regulatory restrictions for the NRI community. One of the key changes include NRIs as well as other persons resident outside India (PROIs) are permitted to invest in equity instruments of listed Indian companies through the Portfolio Investment Scheme. The government has proposed increasing the investment limit for an individual PROI from 5 per cent to 10 per cent. At the same time, the overall investment limit for all individual PROIs in a company is to be increased from 10 per cent to 24 per cent.