Wait until you learn about their approach to getting new customers living abroad (non resident Indians) They’ll ask you to physically mail in all the documents, on your dime, instead of scanning and emailing like a normal person. So I need to spend 100$ to open an account. Unlike American banks who will offer you money to open accounts.

ICICI is the easiest Indian bank to open a NRI account online at. Depending on your country of residence, it can be completely online, not requiring anything to be sent by post

$100 to mail documents?

Do you think they’ll tell you everything they need in one go? Hah :)

Exactly. And I did this when I had a chance to visit their branch in my town. And despite filing everything in front of the person and reconfirming what I was asking for, they somehow managed to send me the checkbook and cards instead of sending them to my parents address in India.

From US to India. DHL charged me that much in past.