Indian Citizenship: If someone wants to apply for Indian citizenship, then what eligibility criteria should he fulfill and where should he apply for it? Let us tell you.

Indian Citizenship: Any country sets some rules, laws, and eligibility criteria to give citizenship to its country. If someone wants to take citizenship of that country, then he has to fulfill those eligibility criteria. Those rules have to be followed. In India also, some rules and eligibility criteria have been set for obtaining citizenship.

If someone wants to apply for Indian citizenship, then he has to fulfill the eligibility criteria. Let us tell you what are the eligibility criteria to take Indian citizenship. And where to apply for it, what is its complete process.

What are the rules regarding citizenship?

There are some laws and eligibility criteria regarding citizenship in India. Any person can take citizenship in five ways. Citizenship is obtained by birth, citizenship by descent, citizenship by registration, citizenship by naturalization and by including territory. All people born in India after 26 January 1950 are Indian citizens.

Apart from this, people born after 1 July 1987 whose parents were living in India at that time will also be considered Indian citizens. Along with this, people born in India after 3 December 2004 will be considered citizens of India if both their parents are Indians or one of them is an Indian and the other is not an illegal migrant.

People from other countries can get citizenship like this

If a person from another country has been living in India continuously for 11 years, then he can apply for citizenship. On the other hand, under CAA i.e. Citizenship Amendment Act, any minority from India's neighboring countries Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, which belongs to Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Christian, Buddhist or Parsi religion, will get Indian citizenship only after living there for 5 years.

This is how you can apply

If someone is a non-Muslim person from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, then he cannot apply for citizenship through CAA. Such people will have to apply for citizenship by visiting the official website of the Ministry of Home Affairs of the Government of India https://www.mha.gov.in/en. But those who are eligible under the Citizenship Amendment Act can also apply by visiting Indiancitizenshiponline.nic.in.