The apprehensions of critics and political opposition have found stronger basis in the proposed amendments to the Citizenship Act 1955, introduced in Parliament in July 2016. Purportedly for the protection of certain minority communities, the Act makes relaxations for naturalisation of undocumented ...
Citizenship Amendment ActNational Register of CitizensIndian ConstitutionSecularismCAANRCThis paper examines the provisions of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) against the backdrop of the citizenship provisions of the Indian Constitution. It arguSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
Current act: Applicants must have the intention to reside in Canada if granted citizenship. Proposed amendment: Repeal intent to reside provision. Physical presence in Canada Current act: Physical presence for 4 out of 6 years before the date of application. Proposed amendment: Physical presence for...
the state of Assam has been a test case for theNational Register of Citizens (NRC) and, more recently, the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), twin new citizenship regulations supported by the ruling Hindu nationalists that have sent shockwaves through the nation. ...
More than 2000 ‘Gana Satyagrahi’ are detained for protesting against the ‘Citizenship Amendment Act’ in Assam’s capital city Guwahati today. As the protests against the unconstitutional ‘Citizenship Amendment Act’ continues, more than 2000 civic citizens were gather...
Understanding the Amendment Act The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill was discussed by the Union Cabinet and was eventually cleared for introduction on 4th December 2019 in the Lower House of the Parliament, which is the Lok Sabha. After which, on 9th of December the Home Minister...
Citizenship by Investment Act, 2013 Citizenship by Investment (Amendment) Regulations, 2013 LIST OF 150 COUNTRIES THAT HOLDERS OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA PASSPORT CAN VISIT IN 2020 WITHOUT VISAS ⇒ Realty Antigua & Barbuda Government approved objects ...
TO THE LAW ON AMENDMENT AND SUPPLEMENTATION OF THE LAW ON THE BULGARIAN CITIZENSHIP (PROM. – SG 33/10) 8. The applications filed before entry into force of this Law shall be considered and decided under the old conditions and procedures within two years from entry into force of this Law....
The court determined that the 14th Amendmentautomatically made Wong Kim Ark a citizenbecause he'd been born in the United States, even though his parents were Chinese immigrants ineligible to become naturalized citizensunder the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act. Today,federal law includesbirthright citizenshi...
American citizenship is and should be a birthright. It is law that anybody born on U.S. soil is automatically a citizen of these United States of America. “Jus Soli”, otherwise known as the right of soil”, was created off of the principles enacted within the Fourteenth Amendment to the...