Indian Citizenship Archives

Know Why J&K and Ladakh HC upheld deportation of Pakistani couple who lived in India since 1988

“The petitioners acted in their own volition and acquired citizenship of a foreign Country. The passports and the residential permit issued to them were cogent, unequivocal evidence of the fact that the petitioners were not citizens of India.”

Case Briefs High Courts

‘Acquisition of foreign citizenship by parent does not affect the Indian citizenship of their minor child’: Bombay HC

“The child cannot be left stateless”, said the Court while holding that the minor petitioner was entitled to be issued a passport on the basis of her Indian citizenship.

Case Briefs High Courts

Gau HC | Granting opportunity for identification and declaration of individual of foreign nationality to establish claim of Indian citizenship cannot be enlarged to ceaseless exercise under Foreigners Act

Gauhati High Court: A Division Bench of Manojit Bhuyan and Hitesh Kumar Sarma, JJ. upheld the ex-parte order of the Foreigners’ Tribunal