Citizenship (Amendment) Rules, 2024 explained: What you need to know

The Modi government officially notified the Citizenship (Amendment) Rules, 2024, on Monday evening, signalling a significant development in India’s citizenship framework. Home Minister Amit Shah took to Twitter to announce the news, highlighting the rules’ provisions to grant citizenship to persecuted minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan. In his post, he wrote, “These rules will […]

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Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019

The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 was passed by the Parliament of India on 11 December 2019. It amended the Citizenship Act of 1955 by providing a path to Indian citizenship for Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi, and Christian religious minorities fleeing persecution from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.Muslims were not given such eligibility. The act was the first time religion had been used as a criterion for citizenship under Indian law. The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which […]

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National Register of Citizens of India (NRC) Document List

List A Documents For inclusion of names of any person in updated NRC, the applicants must produce any one of the following List A documents issued before 24 March (midnight), 1971 where the name of self or ancestor appears (to prove residence in Assam up to 24 March (midnight), 1971): Further, the following two documents […]

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