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CAA, NRC ‘may affect status’ of Muslims in India: US Congressional report

The December 18 report also said that for the first time in independent India’s history, a religious criterion has been added to the country’s naturalization process.

Current Affairs:The changed Citizenship law alongside a National Register of Citizens (NRC) being arranged by the Narendra Modi government “may influence the status” of Muslim minority in India, a report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) has said.

The December 18 report likewise said that without precedent for autonomous India’s history, a strict paradigm has been added to the nation’s naturalization procedure.

The CRS is a free research wing of the US Congress which gets ready reports occasionally on issues of local and worldwide significance for the administrators to take educated choice. These are not considered as authentic reports of the US Congress.

“Pair with a National Register of Citizens (NRC) arranged by the central government, the CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) may influence the status of India’s enormous Muslim minority of approximately 200 million,” said the CRS in its first since forever report on the changed Citizenship law.

As indicated by the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, non-Muslim exiles who came to India till December 31, 2014, to escape strict abuse in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan will be given Indian citizenship.

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No country caps on Green Cards: US House passes bill; India to benefit

Indian IT professionals are worst sufferers of current immigration system which imposes a 7% per country quota on allotment of Green Card

International:-The US administrators Wednesday passed a bill went for lifting the present seven percent nation top on issuing Green Cards, a move which would profit a great many exceptionally gifted Indian IT experts.

A Green Card enables an individual to live and work for all time in the US.

Gone by the US House of Representatives, the bill, on being marked into law, would extensively abbreviate the horrifying hold up of skilled experts from nations like India who have connected for perpetual residency in the United States.

Indian IT experts, the vast majority of whom are exceedingly gifted and gone to the US for the most part on the H-1B work visas, are the most noticeably terrible sufferers of the present migration framework which forces a seven percent for every nation portion on designation of the pined for Green Cards or changeless legitimate residency.

Lifting the per-nation top would fundamentally profit experts from nations like India, for whom the hang tight for Green Card is over 10 years.

A portion of the ongoing investigations have said the hanging tight period for Indian IT experts on H-1B visas is over 70 years.

Close to seven percent of the visas might be issued to locals of any one free nation in a financial year, as indicated by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services.

As per the Congressional Research Service (CRS), this bill expands the per-nation top on family-based foreigner visas from seven percent of the absolute number of such visas accessible that year to 15 percent and disposes of the seven percent top for work based outsider visas.

It likewise evacuates a balance that decreased the quantity of visas for people from China.

The bill, notwithstanding, must be passed by the Senate, wherein the Republicans appreciate a greater part, before it tends to be marked into law by President Donald Trump.

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