NEW RULES TO GIVE UP CITIZENSHIP.

Those renouncing Indian citizenship will now have to declare the circumstances or reasons for which they intend to acquire foreign citizenship. Also, only one living spouse of foreign origin of a citizen or OCI can apply for registration as an OCI card-holder. Those renouncing Indian citizenship on account of being national of another country will now have to declare the circumstances or reasons due to which they intend to acquire foreign citizenship. The home minsitry, while notifying the Citizenship (Amendment) Rules, 2018, also made it clear that only living spouse of foreign origin of a citizen of India or overseas citizen of India (OCI) would be eligible to apply for registration as an OCI card-holder. "This is in conformity with the law that bans polygamy (except in case of Muslims by virtue of their personal law)", said a home ministry official. The amended rules also require Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) who are ordinarily resident in India for six months, spouse of a citizen of India and minor child of a citizen of India to specify their religion in their applications for registration as a citizen of India under Section. 5 of the Citizenship Act. The government has notified a revised form for declaration of renunciation by Indian citrizens of another country, bringing it in line with the Citizenship Rules, 2009, that require the applicants to specify under which provision of law they are Indian citizens and also the circumstances in which they intend to acquire foreign citizenship. 
The revised form requires the applicant to specify whether he/she is/was an Indian citizen by birth, descent, registration or naturalisation; as well as the circumstances that have led him/her to acquire foreign citizenship. An MHA functionary clarified that the Information seeking reasons for renunciation of Indian citizenship shall not be used as a ground of the application.
[Courtesy: The Times of India dated 24th October, 2018 (Wednesday)].
-Challpalli Srinivas Chakravarthy-
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