Immigration and Foreigners Bill not connected to grant of citizenship, says official
2 weeks, 1 day ago

Immigration and Foreigners Bill not connected to grant of citizenship, says official

The Hindu  

A day after the Immigration and Foreigners Bill, 2025 was introduced in the Parliament, a government official clarified that the legislation is not connected with any matters related with grant of citizenship. The official said the Bill was a comprehensive legislation to regulate all matters relating to foreigners and immigration that are currently administered through four Acts — the Passport Act, 1920, the Registration of Foreigners Act, 1939, the Foreigners Act, 1946 and the Immigration Act, 2000. “Key provisions in the Bill include mandatory requirement of valid travel documents for entry into, stay in and exit from India, constitution of a Bureau of Immigration, power for deportation of illegal foreigners from India, mandatory reporting of information about foreigners by hotels, universities and educational institutions and hospitals, nursing homes etc. to enable tracking of overstaying foreigners, obligation of carriers to share information on passengers as per international practices, compounding of certain offences to enable ease of compliance burden,” the official said.

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Immigration and Foreigners Bill: Those who pose a threat to country will be dealt with sternly, says Amit Shah
4 hours, 31 minutes ago

Immigration and Foreigners Bill: Those who pose a threat to country will be dealt with sternly, says Amit Shah

The Hindu  

Everyone wanting to visit India as a tourist or for education, healthcare and business is welcome, but those who pose a threat to the country will be dealt with sternly, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Thursday. Replying to a Lok Sabha debate on the Immigration and Foreigners Bill, 2025, he said the proposed legislation will strengthen the country's …

How will new Immigration Act stop illegal entry by classifying foreigners?
17 hours, 39 minutes ago

How will new Immigration Act stop illegal entry by classifying foreigners?

India Today  

On March 27, 2025, the Immigration and Foreigners Bill, 2025, was passed in the Lok Sabha. There are also provisions established in the act to enforce stronger immigration controls to prevent illegal entry into India. SALIENT FEATURES OF THE BILL One of the key features of this bill is that it classifies foreigners into six different categories: tourists, students, skilled …

7 Years Jail, Rs 10 Lakh Fine: What Does Immigration Bill Propose?
1 week, 4 days ago

7 Years Jail, Rs 10 Lakh Fine: What Does Immigration Bill Propose?

ABP News  

Anyone found using a forged passport or visa for entering, staying or exiting India will be punished with a jail term of up to seven years and a fine to the extent of Rs 10 lakh if the new immigration bill is approved by Parliament. "Whoever knowingly uses or supplies a forged or fraudulently obtained passport or other travel document …

Immigration And Foreigners Bill Introduced In Parliament: All About Its Provisions & Changes
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2 weeks ago

Immigration And Foreigners Bill Introduced In Parliament: All About Its Provisions & Changes

ABP News  

The centre has introduced a new draft bill seeking to streamline various services related to immigration and foreigners, including their entry, exit and stay in the country. The Immigration and Foreigners Bill, 2025, that has been introduced in the Lok Sabha, will replace the Immigration Act, 2000, and three pre-independence laws, the Passport Act, 1920, the Registration of Foreigners Act, …

New Immigration and Foreigners Bill in Lok Sabha today, aims to tackle national security threats
2 weeks, 2 days ago

New Immigration and Foreigners Bill in Lok Sabha today, aims to tackle national security threats

Firstpost  

The new Immigration and Foreigners Bill is set to replace the four laws: the Passport Act, 1920; the Registration of Foreigners Act, 1939; the Foreigners Act, 1946; and the Immigration Act, 2000. PTI The Narendra Modi government on Tuesday introduced the Immigration and Foreigners Bill to streamline and update laws related to foreign travel. The bill seeks to replace the …

Modi Govt Tables Immigration Bill In Parliament, Opposition Says It Violates Constitution
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2 weeks, 2 days ago

Modi Govt Tables Immigration Bill In Parliament, Opposition Says It Violates Constitution

ABP News  

New Delhi: A bill seeking to streamline various services related to immigration and foreigners, including their entry, exit and stay in the country was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday with opposition dubbing it to be violative of constitutional provisions. Rejecting suggestions that Parliament lacked the legislative competence to bring the Immigration and Foreigners Bill, 2025, Minister of State …

Govt to introduce Immigration and Foreigners Bill 2025 to regulate stay of foreigners in India: Key highlights
2 weeks, 2 days ago

Govt to introduce Immigration and Foreigners Bill 2025 to regulate stay of foreigners in India: Key highlights

Op India  

In a major attempt to overhaul India’s immigration system, the Modi government is likely to introduce the Immigration and Foreigners Bill in the Lok Sabha on 11th March 2025. The Immigration and Foreigners Bill 2025 further provides that no foreigner would be allowed to enter and stay in India if he is found to be a threat to India’s national …

New immigration & foreigners bill introduced in Parliament
2 weeks, 2 days ago

New immigration & foreigners bill introduced in Parliament

Hindustan Times  

With an aim to enhance national security, the government on Tuesday introduced the Immigration and Foreigners Bill, 2025 in Parliament. While introducing the bill, Minister of state home affairs Nityanand Rai said, “We are not bringing this law to stop anyone from coming to India”. The proposed legislation seeks to abolish four existing laws — the Passport Act, 1920, the …

Bill to streamline service related to immigration, foreigners introduced in Lok Sabha
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2 weeks, 2 days ago

Bill to streamline service related to immigration, foreigners introduced in Lok Sabha

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: The government introduced a bill seeking to streamline various services related to immigration and foreigners, including their entry, exit and stay in the country, in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. Rejecting suggestions that Parliament lacked the legislative competence to bring the Immigration and Foreigners Bill, 2025, Minister of State for Home Affair Nityanand Rai said the central government …

Why is a new bill on foreigners coming? | Explained
1 month, 1 week ago

Why is a new bill on foreigners coming? | Explained

The Hindu  

The story so far: The Union Ministry of Home Affairs is all set to introduce the Immigration and Foreigners Bill, 2025 in the second half of the Budget session that begins on March 10. no foreigner shall be allowed to enter into or stay in India if he is found inadmissible to do so on account of threat to national …

In a first, Immigration Bill to have clauses denying entry to foreigners
1 month, 2 weeks ago

In a first, Immigration Bill to have clauses denying entry to foreigners

The Hindu  

The Immigration and Foreigners Bill, 2025 that is expected to be introduced in the current session of the Parliament, is likely to introduce for the first time, threats to national security and sovereignty as ground to refuse entry or stay to a foreign national in the country. The Bill will repeal and replace the Foreigners Act, 1946; Passport Act, 1920; …

What India’s new law on foreigners entering the country illegally will look like
1 month, 2 weeks ago

What India’s new law on foreigners entering the country illegally will look like

Firstpost  

Union Home Minister Amit Shah is likely to introduce the Immigration and Foreigners Bill, 2025, in the ongoing Budget session of Parliament. Reports say Union Home Minister Amit Shah could bring the Immigration and Foreigners Bill, 2025, in the ongoing Budget session of Parliament. The bill aims to impose stricter punishment on foreigners entering India without a valid passport or …

What India’s new law on foreigners entering the country illegally will look like
1 month, 2 weeks ago

What India’s new law on foreigners entering the country illegally will look like

Firstpost  

Union Home Minister Amit Shah is likely to introduce the Immigration and Foreigners Bill, 2025, in the ongoing Budget session of Parliament. Reports say Union Home Minister Amit Shah could bring the Immigration and Foreigners Bill, 2025, in the ongoing Budget session of Parliament. The bill aims to impose stricter punishment on foreigners entering India without a valid passport or …

New immigration and foreigners bill on anvil
1 month, 3 weeks ago

New immigration and foreigners bill on anvil

Hindustan Times  

The Centre is likely to introduce a bill in the upcoming Budget session for streamlining various services related to immigration and foreigners, including their entry, exit and stay in the country, people familiar with the development said on Thursday. Apart from movement, stay and visa, there are certain protected areas in India where foreigners need special permit to travel The …

Centre to introduce 16 bills including Immigration and Foreigners Bill during Budget session
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Centre to introduce 16 bills including Immigration and Foreigners Bill during Budget session

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: The BJP-led NDA government is likely to introduce the Immigration and Foreigners Bill during the Budget Session, which will be held from 31st January 31 to April 4 with a recess in between. This move is part of the government's broader legislative agenda, aiming to strengthen its legal framework for addressing the issue of illegal immigration, particularly concerning …

Critical Analysis Of The Emigration Bill, 2021
3 years, 5 months ago

Critical Analysis Of The Emigration Bill, 2021

Live Law  

India has the largest number of emigrant population in the world recorded at a staggering eighteen million. Moreover, Clause 31 states that contravention with any of the provisions of the Bill will also impose liability of the emigrant to penalty up to fifty thousand rupees. This is despite the fact that Chapter VII of the Bill seeks to address the …

Joe Biden Starts Reversing Trump's Immigration Rules: Will The Move Help Indian IT Professionals?
4 years, 2 months ago

Joe Biden Starts Reversing Trump's Immigration Rules: Will The Move Help Indian IT Professionals?

ABP News  

Washington: In what brings good news for the Indian IT professionals in the United States, Joe Biden, soon after taking over as the country’s 46th President, sent an immigration reform bill to the Congress which among others proposes to eliminate the per country cap for employment-based green cards. Referred to as the US Citizenship Act, 2021, the bill modernises the …

Preparation Of NRC A Necessary Exercise; Has Responsibility To Identify Illegal Migrants: Centre Tells SC
5 years ago

Preparation Of NRC A Necessary Exercise; Has Responsibility To Identify Illegal Migrants: Centre Tells SC

Live Law  

In its counter affidavit filed in the writ petitions challenging CAA, the Central Government has said that the preparation of a national register of citizens is a necessary exercise and that there is a responsibility entrusted on the Central Government to identify/detect illegal migrants. It is therefore, the responsibility entrusted on the Central Government, on a combined reading of the …

Accurate data of illegal immigrants entering, living in India not centrally maintained by MHA, govt tells Lok Sabha
5 years ago

Accurate data of illegal immigrants entering, living in India not centrally maintained by MHA, govt tells Lok Sabha

Firstpost  

An accurate data of the number of illegal immigrants in the country, including Delhi, is not maintained centrally as they enter India without valid travel documents in a clandestine and surreptitious manner New Delhi: An accurate data of the number of illegal immigrants in the country, including Delhi, is not maintained centrally as they enter India without valid travel documents …

SFI Moves SC Challenging Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019
5 years, 2 months ago

SFI Moves SC Challenging Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019

Live Law  

The Student Federation of India has filed a petition under Article 32 of the Constitution of India, challenging the constitutionality of the Citizenship Act, 2019, along with the validity of the power of the Central Government to grant class exemption under Section 3 Passport Act, 1920, and Section 3A of the Foreigners Act, 1946. The Petition The grievances set out …

Citizenship Amendment Bill becomes a Law from December 12
5 years, 3 months ago

Citizenship Amendment Bill becomes a Law from December 12

Op India  

The Citizenship Bill, 2019 has now become an act of law after President Ram Nath Kovind gave his assent to the historic legislation on Thursday. The Citizenship Amendment act seeks to give Indian citizenship to the members of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian communities who have come from three neighbouring Islamic countries – Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh after …

Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 gets President’s nod
5 years, 3 months ago

Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 gets President’s nod

Live Mint  

The Citizenship Bill, 2019 received President Ram Nath Kovind's nod late Thursday, and hence became an Act. The President's assent comes amid intense outrage across Assam and Tripura, where curfew has been extended indefinitely in some parts. This is a drastic shift from the provisions of the Citizenship Act of 1955 that labels a person an “illegal immigrant" if he …

Parliament Passes Citizenship Amendment Bill [Read Bill]
5 years, 3 months ago

Parliament Passes Citizenship Amendment Bill [Read Bill]

Live Law  

After a stormy debate which lasted over eight hours, the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019, which seeks to amend the Citizenship Act 1955.The Chairperson Venkaiah Naidu declared the bill cleared with 125 Ayes and 105 Noes.The Lok Sabha had cleared the Bill on Monday.The Bill seeks to relax conditions for acquiring citizenship for non-Muslim migrants. …

Citizenship Amendment Bill: Legalise business, marriage, children of refugees
5 years, 3 months ago

Citizenship Amendment Bill: Legalise business, marriage, children of refugees

Op India  

Union Home Minister Amit Shah tabled the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 in the upper house of the parliament today. Addressing the Rajya Sabha, Amit Shah first took the opportunity to rubbished the rumours doing the rounds about the Muslim population of the country being adversely affected by the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Bill. Read: Citizenship Amendment Bill – Myths …

The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019
5 years, 3 months ago

The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019

The Hindu  

The Cabinet cleared the Citizenship Bill, 2019 and it will be introduced in Parliament on December 9, 2019. The Citizenship Bill says the six non-Muslim communities “shall not be treated as illegal migrant”. The Bill will enable a person from the six communities to apply for citizenship, even without a proof of birth, just by staying in India for six …

Citizenship (Amendment) Bill may benefit ‘declared foreigners’
5 years, 3 months ago

Citizenship (Amendment) Bill may benefit ‘declared foreigners’

The Hindu  

The Citizenship Bill, 2019 that will be introduced in Parliament on December 9 is also likely to benefit the non-Muslims who were declared illegal migrants by various Foreigners Tribunals in Assam. The redrafted Bill has a provision to abate “any proceedings pending against a person under this section in respect of illegal migration or citizenship before any authority including Foreigners …

Union Cabinet okays Citizenship Amendment Bill: All you need to know about the draft law mired in controversy
5 years, 3 months ago

Union Cabinet okays Citizenship Amendment Bill: All you need to know about the draft law mired in controversy

Firstpost  

If passed in the parliament, the Citizenship Bill 2016, will imply that Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, who arrived in India on or before 31 December, 2014 will not be deported or imprisoned for being in India even if found to be living without valid documents. The new bill seeks to amend the …

A Bill that undercuts key constitutional values
5 years, 5 months ago

A Bill that undercuts key constitutional values

The Hindu  

Last week, while speaking about implementing a National Register of Citizens in West Bengal, Home Minister Amit Shah said, “I want to assure Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist and Christian refugees, you will not be forced to leave India by the Centre.” These words sparked an immediate backlash as Mr. Shah had evidently omitted one religious community, Muslims, from his statement. …

Citizenship Bill: Confusion over proposed law can be dispelled by separating law from politics, say experts
6 years, 2 months ago

Citizenship Bill: Confusion over proposed law can be dispelled by separating law from politics, say experts

Firstpost  

In Assam, Asom Gana Parishad which was the key coalition partner of the ruling BJP quit the state government, accusing the Centre of being anti-Assam. Though Home Minister Rajnath Singh had clarified in the Rajya Sabha on 9 January and has reiterated his views on several platforms that his government is “committed to preserve North East’s identity”, confusion on some …

What is the Controversy Behind Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019?
6 years, 2 months ago

What is the Controversy Behind Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019?

The Quint  

The erstwhile Bill was first introduced in the Lok Sabha on 19 July 2016. It offer citizenship to these six identified non-Muslim minorities who reportedly fled from India’s neighbouring countries due to ‘religious persecution’. The Act seems to be a follow up of the promise made by the BJP in 2014, to grant citizenship to Hindus persecuted in the neighbouring …

Plea In SC Challenges Laws Regularising Entry & Stay Of Persecuted Communities From Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan In India [Read Petition]
6 years, 3 months ago

Plea In SC Challenges Laws Regularising Entry & Stay Of Persecuted Communities From Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan In India [Read Petition]

Live Law  

A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court of India challenging rules and notifications which regularise the entry and stay in India, of people from six communities which claim to be victims of religious persecution in their own countries.More specifically, the petition, filed by the Nagarikatwa Aain Songsudhan Birodhi Mancha, challenges. More specifically, the petition, filed by the Nagarikatwa …

Plea In SC Challenges Laws Regularising Entry & Stay Of Persecuted Communities From Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan In India [Read Petition]
6 years, 3 months ago

Plea In SC Challenges Laws Regularising Entry & Stay Of Persecuted Communities From Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan In India [Read Petition]

Live Law  

A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court of India challenging rules and notifications which regularise the entry and stay in India, of people from six communities which claim to be victims of religious persecution in their own countries.More specifically, the petition, filed by the Nagarikatwa Aain Songsudhan Birodhi Mancha, challenges. More specifically, the petition, filed by the Nagarikatwa …

What is the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016?
6 years, 10 months ago

What is the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016?

The Hindu  

In recent weeks, Assam has seen many protests over the proposed Citizenship Bill, 2016. And, earlier this month, when the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Bill visited Assam and Meghalaya to hear from the locals, it did so amid protest voices which said the move would make Assam a “dumping ground for Hindu Bangladeshis”. The Bill, introduced in the Lok …

Parliament passes Citizenship Amendment Bill
10 years ago

Parliament passes Citizenship Amendment Bill

Firstpost  

Parliament on Wednesday passed a Bill to amend the Citizenship Act to remove disparity between Persons of Indian Origin and Overseas Citizens of India cardholders. New Delhi: Parliament on Wednesday passed a Bill to amend the Citizenship Act to remove disparity between Persons of Indian Origin and Overseas Citizens of India cardholders. Replying to the debate, Minister of State for …

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