IkkoPind Editorial🇦🇺 → 🇬🇧 → 🇮🇳2-minute read
Keeping Punjabi when the children are growing up elsewhere
Why it usually goes in one generation, what actually keeps a language alive in a house, and why a child who…
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IkkoPind Editorial🇦🇺 → 🇮🇳2-minute read
Health cover when your life is in two countries
What lapses while you are away, why travel insurance and health cover are not the same thing, and the…
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Keeping a house in the pind while you are away
Who is actually responsible, which bills keep running whether or not anyone is there, and the maintenance that…
Comparison Guide🇦🇺1-minute read
Employee versus independent contractor, and what actually changes
The same work can be offered two very different ways. What employee vs contractor means for your pay…
IkkoPind Editorial🇦🇺 → 🇮🇳3-minute read
Applying for work from another country
What to have scanned before you start, whether your qualification needs assessing and by whom, and how to…
IkkoPind Editorial🇦🇺 → 🇮🇳2-minute read
Sending money home without losing a week of pay
The fee is rarely the expensive part. How to compare what actually arrives, what to keep for your records, and…
IkkoPind Editorial🇦🇺 → 🇮🇳3-minute read
Coming home for good, and what not to close on the way out
Most of what people regret about moving back is something they closed, cancelled or let lapse in the last…
IkkoPind Editorial🇦🇺 → 🇮🇳3-minute read
Keeping access to your money when your number changes
A new SIM can lock you out of your own bank. What to change before you fly, what to never rely on a single…
IkkoPind Editorial🇮🇳 → 🇦🇺2-minute read
When somebody brings you an opportunity back home
You are far away, you have money, and you cannot go and look. The questions to ask before any of it moves, and…
IkkoPind Editorial🇦🇺 → 🇮🇳2-minute read
Arranging care for parents from another country
Who holds the keys, who can reach a doctor, and how money gets to where it is needed without a phone call at…
IkkoPind Editorial🇦🇺 → 🇮🇳3-minute read
Getting home fast when there is an emergency
The trip nobody plans. What to have ready now so that the worst phone call is about the person and not about…
IkkoPind Editorial🇦🇺 → 🇮🇳2-minute read
Working remotely from Punjab for an overseas employer
The questions to settle with your employer, and with yourself, before working from your pind for a company…
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Spotting a job scam before you pay anything
The one rule that stops most of them, what a licence or registration number actually proves, and how to check…
IkkoPind Editorial🇦🇺 → 🇬🇧 → 🇮🇳3-minute read
Who is allowed to give you immigration advice, and how to check
In Australia and the UK, charging for immigration advice is regulated and the registers are public. How to…
IkkoPind Editorial🇦🇺 → 🇮🇳2-minute read
Working a season, and what to settle before you travel
Block length, hourly against piece rates, who your employer actually is, and what accommodation deductions do…
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Tax when you earn in one country and live in two
Why the answer depends on days and intention rather than on your passport, the records to keep from the first…
Checklist🇦🇺 → 🇮🇳1-minute read
Preparing for a six-month stay in Punjab
A practical checklist for your first long stretch home: documents, money, healthcare, the house you leave and…
IkkoPind Editorial🇦🇺 → 🇮🇳3-minute read
Your first month in a new country
The handful of things that unlock everything else, roughly in the order they unlock it, and the two that…
IkkoPind Editorial🇦🇺2-minute read
Checking your own work rights, and who to tell
Your minimum entitlements do not depend on your visa or on your employer being decent. Where to look them up…
IkkoPind Editorial🇦🇺3-minute read
When something goes wrong at work
Unpaid wages, unsafe work, or accommodation tied to a job. What to do in the first hour, what to write down…