You have watched Apple, Google, and Amazon grow for years from a distance. You knew the companies. You believed in them. But investing in them felt out of reach complicated, foreign, reserved for someone else. That distance just closed. “I always thought investing abroad meant opening a foreign account, wiring dollars, and navigating international tax rules,” says one of our clients. “When my advisor told me I could buy Apple shares and hold dollar bonds through GIFT City with an Indian account, in rupees to start I didn’t believe it at first. Then I did it in one afternoon.”