Visas must for members of non-Muslim communities who entered India without documents before 2025
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The Ministry of Home Affairs has amended the 2025 Immigration and Foreigners Exemption Order to make it mandatory for persons from six non-Muslim communities from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan who had, citing religious persecution, entered India by December 31, 2024, without valid travel documents, to get an “appropriate visa” to continue staying in the country.
The changed rules, notified on Wednesday and published on Thursday, also apply to persons whose documents have expired.
The rules had exempted Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Christians, Jains and Parsis from the three countries from requiring valid passports or visas while entering and staying in India. The amendment retains the exemption of allowing entry without valid passport and visa.
The rules align with the 2019 Citizenship Amendment Act. The contentious law aims to provide a fast track to citizenship to refugees from six minority religious communities, except Muslims, from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, on the condition that they have lived in India for six years and have entered the country by December 31, 2014. The Union government notified the rules under the Act in March 2024.
The amendment on Wednesday made changes to several other provisions relating to travel by Indian, Bhutanese and Nepali citizens, and reorganised categories of exemptions granted to Tibetan refugees.
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