Screening Paper I · 2 Constitution, Polity, Social Justice & International Relations · APPSC Group 1

2.1.6 Citizenship notes

3 notes, in reading order.

  1. 2.1.6.1Articles 5–11: citizenship at the commencement

    Part II only decides who was a citizen on 26 January 1950, mainly by domicile and in special rules for people who moved across the new border with Pakistan; everything later is left to Parliament under Article 11.

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  2. 2.1.6.2Citizenship Act 1955 and the 2019 amendment

    The Citizenship Act, 1955 lays down five ways to acquire and three ways to lose Indian citizenship; amendments since 1986 have narrowed citizenship by birth, and the 2019 amendment eased naturalisation for six non-Muslim minorities from three neighbouring countries.

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  3. 2.1.6.3NRI, PIO and OCI

    An NRI is an Indian citizen living abroad; a PIO card was for foreign nationals of Indian origin until 2015; an OCI cardholder is a foreign national of Indian origin with a lifelong visa and many economic rights, but without political rights. None of these is dual citizenship.

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