Earlier, non-Muslim non secular minorities, who confronted persecution in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan coming into earlier than December 2014 have been supplied with the Indian citizenship.
“An individual belonging to a minority neighborhood in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan — Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians — who have been compelled to hunt shelter in India resulting from non secular persecution or concern of non secular persecution and entered the nation on or earlier than December 31, 2024 with out legitimate paperwork, together with a passport or different journey paperwork, or with legitimate paperwork, together with a passport or different journey paperwork, and the validity of such paperwork have expired” can be exempted from the rule of possessing a sound passport and visa, in line with the order issued by the MHA.
Union Minister of State for Training Sukanta Majumdar shared the notification dated September 1.
The Citizenship (Amendment) Act was passed by Parliament in December 2019. The then president of India, Ramnath Kovind, signed the bill, and it became a law aimed at providing Indian citizenship to non-Muslim migrants who faced religious persecution in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
The relief comes amid a long-standing appeal by associations of displaced persons. A refugee body representing Bangladesh had urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to extend the CAA closing date from 2014 to 2024, citing the continued inflow of persecuted minorities throughout borders.The Centre had carried out CAA on March 11 final 12 months by notifying the principles. This was 4 years after the legislation was handed by Parliament to fast-track citizenship for undocumented non-Muslim migrants.
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