Hi fellow desi fishes! Assuming most of us in North America gets 20 days of vacations annually, how do you plan for your visits to India. Additionally, I feel just to save on vacation days for annual trip to India, we usually miss on taking vacations to any other destination in around NA or elsewhere.

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Options: Take the long weekends for domestic, the actual PTO for trips back home.
Or, one year int’l, one year domestic travel

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My wife comes from India I am Abcd :) we do one year in India ( me for ten days) her for 20 then one international non India alternate years

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This is a nice approach. But, will not work for my us as my wife is on higher scale of home sickness because of her folks back in India.

I usually combine it with the Christmas and new year shut downs. Including vacation and floating holidays I can enjoy atleast 4 weeks easily.

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You can carry half the pto into the next year at K. That should give you 80 hours to carry forward. Unless you want to travel every year, should work out.

I get 27 days off. One year to india for 4 weeks and next year travel local or any other locations. We used long weekends for vacation In year when we are traveling to India

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I see, it appears the common trend is to visit India on alternate years.

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