Once a you open an ICICI Easy Rupee Account, access will be available to all products and services offered by ICICI namely Housing Loans, Rupee and Foreign Currency denominated fixed deposits, Loans against fixed deposits, Share trading facility under "ICICIDirect.com" to name a few.

New customers:
To open a meNRI account, you have to start by filling in the account opening form available under meNRI icon under the meBANK site. Filling in a single account opening form can open both meACCOUNT as well as ICICI Easy Rupee Account.

Existing meAccount customers:
If you already have a meACCOUNT then you need to open an ICICI Easy Rupee Account to access services under meNRI. To open your ICICI Easy Rupee Account you have to log in to your meBANK Account and fill the incremental data required for opening an ICICI Easy Rupee Account. The account opening form will be available under "New Accounts" option as a separate icon "meNRI". The icon will be displayed to individual as well as joint account applicants provided they fulfill the laid down eligibility criteria. Existing individual meACCOUNT holders will be able to open individual accounts under ICICI NRE whereas existing joint meACCOUNT holders will be able to open joint accounts only.

Existing ICICI Easy Rupee Account customer:
If you hold a Easy Rupee Account with ICICI Bank then you need to open a meACCOUNT with meBANK. Once you have opened the meACCOUNT you will become eligible for meNRI Account. You will then have to register for the online meNRI transfer facility.

The meNRI transfer facility will be available under transfer option after you log in to your meACCOUNT. In case of joint accounts the transfer facility will be available to both account holder(s).

What are the charges for transferring money ?
meBank may levy a minimum charge of AED 5 per transfer.

ICICI Bank will levy a nominal charge of INR 25 (inclusive of service tax) on every remittance request where foreign currency conversion* is carried out on or after May 16th 2008. This charge would be deducted from the amount to be paid to the beneficiary.

*The INR 25 (inclusive of service tax) charge will be levied for disbursements in INR currency. For FCNR deposit requests involving currency conversion, there will be a nominal charge of USD 1 (or equivalent of the deposit currency) deducted from the FCNR deposit amount.