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Canada To Tweak Citizenship Rules: How India-Origin Families Will Benefit
The Canadian government is planning to bring in a law to end the restrictive "second-generation cut-off" rule, which prevented many Canadian citizens born abroad from passing on citizenship to their children who were also born overseas.
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Canada To Revise Law For Citizenship By Descent. How It Affects Indians
Canada is set to modernise its citizenship rules, which could benefit thousands of Indian-origin families and other Canadians born abroad.
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UK Plans To Overhaul Immigration Policy. How It Will Affect Indians
In its biggest immigration shake-up in nearly half a century, the United Kingdom is planning to make some legal migrants wait up to 20 years before letting them apply to settle in Britain permanently.
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Possessing Aadhaar, Voter ID Doesn't Make One Indian Citizen: Bombay High Court
A person does not become a citizen of India merely by possessing documents like Aadhaar card, PAN card or a voter ID, the Bombay High Court on Tuesday said while refusing bail to a man, allegedly from Bangladesh, for entering India illegally.
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US Court Rules Trump's Birthright Citizenship Order Unconstitutional
A federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled Wednesday that President Donald Trump's order seeking to end birthright citizenship is unconstitutional, affirming a lower-court decision that blocked its enforcement nationwide.
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What's Next For President Trump's Birthright Citizenship Order In Courts
A New Hampshire federal judge on Thursday issued a ruling prohibiting the president's January executive order ending birthright citizenship for children born to those without legal status from taking effect anywhere in the US.
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Rahul Gandhi Holds 'Dual Citizenship'? Centre Told To Submit Report By May 5
The matter related to Gandhi's nationality has the potential of casting a shadow over the Congress MP's from Rae Bareli constituency, as Indian law does not permit dual citizenship.
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Parvesh Verma Emerges "Giant-Killer" After Defeating Arvind Kejriwal
The BJP's Parvesh Verma had won the national elections twice - in 2014 and 2019 - but his inflammatory remarks during the citizenship law protests in 2020 shot him back into the limelight, giving his political career a turning point.
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Christian From Pak Becomes 1st Goan To Get Indian Citizenship Under New Law
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday handed over the Indian citizenship certificate to a 78-year-old Pakistani Christian under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, making him the first such person from the coastal state.
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Miss South Africa Contestant Pulls Out Of Final After Citizenship Row
Chidimma Adetshina, a law student, has been the subject of vicious, xenophobic attacks on social media since she was announced as a finalist in July.
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These Immigrants In Assam Will Be Allowed To Get Citizenship Under New Law
In a major development, the Assam government has instructed the police not to forward cases of eligible individuals who entered India before 2014 - the cut-off date under the CAA rules - directly to the Foreigners Tribunals.
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Citizenship Certificates Under CAA Given To Beneficiaries In Bengal: Centre
Less than two weeks after the first set of citizenship certificates were issued under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, the process has also begun in West Bengal, where the implementation of the law has been a contentious issue.
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"Didi Is Lying...": Amit Shah, At Bengal Rally, Explains Citizenship Law
Home Minister Amit Shah today launched a frontal charge at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over what he claimed was her "vote bank politics" linked to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.
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10 Free LPG Cylinders, 5 kg Ration, No CAA: Trinamool's Lok Sabha Poll Promises
The Trinamool Congress on Wednesday evening released its manifesto for the 2024 Lok Sabha election and focused - as other members of the INDIA opposition bloc have - on vowing to repeal changes to the citizenship law if it comes to power.
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"Trinamool Protects Infiltrators, Opposes Citizenship Law CAA": PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday flayed the Trinamool Congress, accusing it of "protecting" infiltrators but opposing the CAA, which gives citizenship to refugees.
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Canada To Tweak Citizenship Rules: How India-Origin Families Will Benefit
The Canadian government is planning to bring in a law to end the restrictive "second-generation cut-off" rule, which prevented many Canadian citizens born abroad from passing on citizenship to their children who were also born overseas.
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Canada To Revise Law For Citizenship By Descent. How It Affects Indians
Canada is set to modernise its citizenship rules, which could benefit thousands of Indian-origin families and other Canadians born abroad.
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UK Plans To Overhaul Immigration Policy. How It Will Affect Indians
In its biggest immigration shake-up in nearly half a century, the United Kingdom is planning to make some legal migrants wait up to 20 years before letting them apply to settle in Britain permanently.
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Possessing Aadhaar, Voter ID Doesn't Make One Indian Citizen: Bombay High Court
A person does not become a citizen of India merely by possessing documents like Aadhaar card, PAN card or a voter ID, the Bombay High Court on Tuesday said while refusing bail to a man, allegedly from Bangladesh, for entering India illegally.
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US Court Rules Trump's Birthright Citizenship Order Unconstitutional
A federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled Wednesday that President Donald Trump's order seeking to end birthright citizenship is unconstitutional, affirming a lower-court decision that blocked its enforcement nationwide.
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What's Next For President Trump's Birthright Citizenship Order In Courts
A New Hampshire federal judge on Thursday issued a ruling prohibiting the president's January executive order ending birthright citizenship for children born to those without legal status from taking effect anywhere in the US.
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Rahul Gandhi Holds 'Dual Citizenship'? Centre Told To Submit Report By May 5
The matter related to Gandhi's nationality has the potential of casting a shadow over the Congress MP's from Rae Bareli constituency, as Indian law does not permit dual citizenship.
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Parvesh Verma Emerges "Giant-Killer" After Defeating Arvind Kejriwal
The BJP's Parvesh Verma had won the national elections twice - in 2014 and 2019 - but his inflammatory remarks during the citizenship law protests in 2020 shot him back into the limelight, giving his political career a turning point.
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Christian From Pak Becomes 1st Goan To Get Indian Citizenship Under New Law
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday handed over the Indian citizenship certificate to a 78-year-old Pakistani Christian under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, making him the first such person from the coastal state.
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Miss South Africa Contestant Pulls Out Of Final After Citizenship Row
Chidimma Adetshina, a law student, has been the subject of vicious, xenophobic attacks on social media since she was announced as a finalist in July.
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These Immigrants In Assam Will Be Allowed To Get Citizenship Under New Law
In a major development, the Assam government has instructed the police not to forward cases of eligible individuals who entered India before 2014 - the cut-off date under the CAA rules - directly to the Foreigners Tribunals.
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Citizenship Certificates Under CAA Given To Beneficiaries In Bengal: Centre
Less than two weeks after the first set of citizenship certificates were issued under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, the process has also begun in West Bengal, where the implementation of the law has been a contentious issue.
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"Didi Is Lying...": Amit Shah, At Bengal Rally, Explains Citizenship Law
Home Minister Amit Shah today launched a frontal charge at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over what he claimed was her "vote bank politics" linked to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.
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10 Free LPG Cylinders, 5 kg Ration, No CAA: Trinamool's Lok Sabha Poll Promises
The Trinamool Congress on Wednesday evening released its manifesto for the 2024 Lok Sabha election and focused - as other members of the INDIA opposition bloc have - on vowing to repeal changes to the citizenship law if it comes to power.
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"Trinamool Protects Infiltrators, Opposes Citizenship Law CAA": PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday flayed the Trinamool Congress, accusing it of "protecting" infiltrators but opposing the CAA, which gives citizenship to refugees.
