The Ministry of Home Affairs on Wednesday mentioned {that a} helpline number will quickly be launched to assist applicants for Indian citizenship. Earlier, the Ministry of Home Affairs had readied a portal for the comfort of the applicants as your complete course of will probably be on-line. The applicants should declare the yr once they entered India with out journey paperwork.
Ahead of the Lok Sabha election, the Centre on Monday introduced the implementation of the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 for granting citizenship to undocumented non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan who got here to India earlier than December 31, 2014.
The ministry mentioned that the applicants can name toll-free from wherever in India to acquire info associated to CAA-2019. The service will probably be out there from 8 AM to 8 PM.
With the CAA guidelines being issued, the Modi authorities will now begin granting Indian nationality to persecuted non-Muslim migrants — Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis and Christians — from the three nations.
