Termination of citizenship

Parliamentary law on termination as

contained in the section 8-10, as contained
in the citizenship act, 1955.
Termination can be by
Renunciation
Voluntarily giving up citizenship by declaration and
registration

Termination
An Indian Citizen must give up his citizenship, if he
acquired citizenship of another country.

Deprivation
Central government by order, may deprive a
person of his citizenship on the grounds of fraud
during registration or naturalisation, spreading
disaffection against constitution and trading with
enemy during war.

Other aspects:

 Background:
The act has been amended in 85,86,92,04,05.
The whole Idea is to attract the Indian
Diaspora and PIO into the Indian fold, so that
they may contribute to the growth story of
India. (From Brain drain to Brain gain)
Pravasi Bhartiya Kendra has been opened to
facilitate this policy. However, most important
policy change in this regard has been OCI
status given to certain person.

Overseas Citizenship of India

Eligibility for CIO
PIOs of certain categories, who have migrated out
of India and acquired citizenship of foreign
countries, except Pakistan, Bangladesh and any
other country notified by Central government.
(Whose country allows for Dual citizenship?)

The categories include

Those who were citixen
Those who were eligible to be citizen in 1950 26 th
Jan
Grand children and children of above.

OCI does not give:

Indian Passport
Right to vote in General election

 Right to contest election

Right to hold constitutional offices
Right to employment with the government.

Benefits of the OCI status:

Life long, multi entry multipurpose visa
No need to inform police on overstay
Same status as NRI in matters of education,
economy, and finance except in the acquisition of
agricultural and plantation property.

In 2015, Citizenship act was amended by the

presidential ordinance
Allowing registration of minors born to Indian
parents as OCI
OCI may apply for citizenship, even if there is a gap
of 1 month in the prescribed period of residence of
1 year.
# Thus we can see that ordinance is not useless.

 Person of India
Any person who has origin in undivided India.
Their parents, grand parents, etc were form these
area.

Recent changes:
Most recently in 2015, PIO card holders scheme
has been merged with OCI card holder scheme,
so that all the PIO card holders have become
OCI card holders while earlier they enjoyed 15
years visa ,now as OCI card holders they enjoy
life long visa.

Registration
Under section 14A of the citizenship act,
the central government must mandatorily
register the Indian citizens and issue
national eye cards.
For this it may maintain a national register of
Indian citizen, and also establish a registration
authority.
# Aadhar vs. this registration.

Controversial Proposal

 Defining Illegal migrant:

Person entering Indian territories without
required paper work or even though having
paper whose days are in valid now.

Redefining
Most recently in 2016, there is a proposal to
redefine citizenship. People from Jain,
Buddhist, Hindus, Christian and Parsi
community from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and
Bangladesh would not be considered illegal
migrants. They would be allowed citizenship by
naturalisation with ordinary residence of 6
years. It seems to be discriminatory only on
the ground of religion.
Further proposal is to cancel OCI status on the
ground that the person has violated any law in
force. This will add to earlier grounds of
cancellation under the act.

What has been the recent changes in the

citizenship act and the policy, to attract the
Indian diaspora in Indian growth story?