The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA) was passed by the Parliament of India on 11 December 2019. It amended the Citizenship Act, 1955 by providing an accelerated pathway to Indian citizenship for persecuted refugees of religious minorities from islamic countries Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan who arrived in India by 2014. The eligible minorities were stated as Hindus, Sikhs ...

2024年3月12日 · The Indian government on Monday announced the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), a law that was passed by parliament in 2019 but was not enforced until now.. This decision on ...

2024年3月12日 · The Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) was passed in the upper house of parliament, where the BJP lacks a majority, by 125 votes to 105 on 11 December, 2019. It had cleared the lower house two days ...

2024年3月15日 · Students protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in Guwahati, India, Tuesday, March 12, 2024. India has implemented a controversial citizenship law that has been widely criticized for excluding Muslims, a minority community whose concerns have heightened under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government.

2019年12月17日 · The bill was violative of the provisions of Articles 14, 15, 21, 25 and 26 of the Constitution, it was alleged. Government's stand on CAA The Centre has rejected the suggestions that the bill is ...

2019年12月9日 · The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 (as passed by Lok Sabha) Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019. Eligibility for citizenship for certain illegal migrants: The Act prohibits illegal migrants from acquiring Indian citizenship.Illegal migrants are foreigners who enter India without a valid passport or travel document, or stay beyond the permitted time.

2019年12月19日 · The Bill further seeks to grant immunity to the migrant of the aforesaid Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian communities so that any proceedings against them regarding in respect of their status of migration or citizenship does not bar them from applying for Indian citizenship. The competent authority, to be prescribed under the ...

The CAA amends the Citizenship Act of 1955 to provide a path to Indian citizenship for Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists, Jains, and Parsis who migrated from neighbouring Muslim-majority ...

The Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAA Bill) was first introduced in 2016 in Lok Sabha by amending the Citizenship Act of 1955. This bill was referred to a Joint Parliamentary Committee, whose report was later submitted on January 7, 2019. The Citizenship Amendment Bill was passed on January 8, 2019, by the Lok Sabha which lapsed with the ...

1 THE CITIZENSHIP (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2019 A BILL further to amend the Citizenship Act, 1955. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventieth Year of the Republic of India as follows:— 1. (1) This Act may be called the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019.(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notificationin the Official Gazette, appoint.