“No passport needed to continue stay: India on Hindus, Sikhs, Jains who came to country before 2025”, Hindustan Times, September 3, 2025:
“The Union home ministry said in an order on Tuesday that members of minority communities from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan — Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians — who came to Bharat till December 31, 2024 to escape religious persecution will be allowed to stay in the country without a passport or other travel documents.
The order is among many issued by the ministry with regard to the recently passed Immigration and Foreigners Act, 2025, which came into effect from Monday.
It comes as a relief for the minorities from these three countries as the previously brought law Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which came into force last year, applied only to those who came to Bharat on or before December 31, 2014 for eligibility to acquire citizenship……”
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