The Act, which was an amendment to the 1955 Citizenship ... All those seeking naturalisation had to show that they were in India legally, and needed to wait for the same period – 11 years ...

According to the Indian Citizenship Act, all foreign nationals are required to stay in India for 11 years before being eligible to apply for a passport. That law did not make religion a ...

India’s tryst with the citizenship question has continued over decades. The last decade especially has witnessed tumult, with a growing move away from jus solis to jus sanguinis principles ...

The Citizenship Amendment Act provides ... Hindu-majority India from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan before Dec. 31, 2014. The law excludes Muslims, who are a majority in all three nations.

The law is applicable to all migrants who arrived in India on and before December 31, 2014. The CAA amends the Citizenship ... 12 of the same year. However, the act was not implemented as the ...

It took India as many as eight years to formulate and enact its first Citizenship Act ... (Determination by Tribunal) Act (IMDT) by Parliament when all the members of Parliament from Assam ...

India is set to implement a controversial citizenship law that offers amnesty to non-Muslim illegal immigrants from neighbouring countries, three years after it sparked massive protests.

On June 2nd, 1924 —The Indian Citizenship Act was enacted in the United States. Now, more than 100 years later ... America in Congress assembled that all non-citizen Indians born within the ...

This week, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the implementation of the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act ... India from religious persecution in Muslim-majority Pakistan, ...