• The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2003 was passed by the Parliament of India in December 2003, and received presidential assent in January 2004. It is labelled...
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  • The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA) was passed by the Parliament of India on 11 December 2019. It amended the Citizenship Act, 1955 by providing...
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  • National Register of Citizens (category Citizenship Amendment Act protests)
    all Indian citizens whose creation was mandated by the 2003 amendment of the Citizenship Act, 1955. Its purpose is to document all the legal citizens...
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  • born on U.S. territory by the first part of the Citizenship Clause introduced by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (adopted July...
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    Section 7A of the Citizenship Act, 1955, as Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) holders, by the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2003. The OCI program was...
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    1992, the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2003, and Citizenship (Amendment) Ordinance 2005. The Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2003 received the assent of the...
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    Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2003". Indian Kanoon. Archived from the original on 5 July 2015. Retrieved 26 May 2015. "The Citizenship Act, 1955 (as of...
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    the Citizenship Clause) was written a few months later into the proposed Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Civil Rights Act of...
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  • The Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Act 2004 (previously bill no. 15 of 2004) amended the Constitution of Ireland to limit the constitutional...
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    India and the Citizenship Act, 1955. All persons born in India between 26 January 1950 and 1 July 1987 automatically received citizenship by birth regardless...
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  • portfolio of rights enjoyed by Indian citizens. The Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2003 and Citizenship (Amendment) Ordinance 2005 make provision for an even newer...
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    Amendments. Usually considered one of the most consequential amendments, it addresses citizenship rights and equal protection under the law and was proposed...
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  • "THE CONSTITUTION (FIRST AMENDMENT) ACT, 1951|Legislative Department | Ministry of Law and Justice | GoI". "Second Amendment". Indiacode.nic.in. Archived...
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  • Citizenship is a membership and allegiance to a sovereign state. Though citizenship is often conflated with nationality in today's English-speaking world...
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    Reciprocal Dual Citizenship Law, Pacific Islands Report; accessed September 7, 2015. Citizenship Retention and Re-acquisition Act of 2003, Chan Robles Law...
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    law governing nationality of Ireland is the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 1956, which came into force on 17 July 1956. Ireland is a member state...
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  • National Register of Citizens for Assam (category Citizenship Amendment Act protests)
    original on 6 August 2020. Retrieved 12 December 2020. The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2003, Government of India, published at india-eu-migration.eu "Ministry...
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    renounced their U.S. citizenship. In 2003, ATF promulgated regulations under that act providing for a definition of renunciation of citizenship consistent with...
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  • Citizenship Canada's mandate is specified in the Department of Citizenship and Immigration Act. The Minister of IRCC administers the Citizenship Act of...
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    national of Canada. The primary law governing these regulations is the Citizenship Act, which came into force on February 15, 1977 and is applicable to all...
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  • Ceylon Citizenship Act The Ceylon Citizenship Act No. 18 of 1948 was a controversial law passed by the Ceylon Parliament which did not grant citizenship to...
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    The primary law governing nationality regulations is the Australian Citizenship Act 2007, which came into force on 1 July 2007 and is applicable in all...
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  • United States v. Wong Kim Ark (category United States Fourteenth Amendment case law)
    recognize his citizenship, and the Supreme Court ruled in his favor, holding that the citizenship language in the Fourteenth Amendment encompassed the...
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    for citizenship and is accepted. The first of these two pathways to citizenship is specified in the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the...
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    full-time service. Article 20 and citizenship by military service in Malaysia has repealed by Constitution (Amendment) Act 1962 [Act 14/1962], with effect from...
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    National Register of Citizens (NRC). Further Citizenship (Amendment) Acts were passed in 1986, 1992, 2003, 2005, 2015 and 2019. The National Register of...
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    Various proposals have been made for a constitutional amendment abolishing birthright citizenship for children of foreign nationals as a deterrent against...
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    The Sexual Offences Act 2003 (c. 42) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It partly replaced the Sexual Offences Act 1956 with more specific...
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    Accountability Act to broaden the "expatriation tax" (26 U.S.C. § 877) and to make public the names of people giving up U.S. citizenship. Reed's amendment ostensibly...
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    gaining U.S. citizenship, this bipartisan act has been both championed and scrutinized, but again failed to pass. People eligible for citizenship are those...
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