How to become an Indian Citizen?

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I am a Sri Lankan male by birth and naturalized Canadian citizen. How can I become Indian Citizen other than being able to be naturalized by living there 14yrs continuously with valid visa.

Can a boy marry a Indian girl by birth(but the girl does not hold Indian citizenship, but some other country) and obtain Indian citizenship via his wife when she apply for Indian Citizenship in the future?

I know when Indian man(he is a citizen of India) marries a non-Indian girl, his citizenship automatically provides Indian citizenship for her. But is this also true for Indian Girl marrying non-Indian? Does Indian Girl have equal rights as Indian Men in India ;)?
 
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akgarg said:
See the 3rd bullet in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_nationality_law#Citizenship_by_Registration. It doesn't say anything about the gender of the Indian citizen, so the rule seems to be gender neutral.
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Third Bulletin as follows:
# a person who is married to a citizen of India and is ordinarily resident in India for seven years before making an application for registration;
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If the girl was born in India to Indian parents and now, for example, she is a Canadian Citizen. Being born in India to Indian parents make her automatically Indian citizen by Indian nationality law(Overseas Citizen of India without living in India) or does she still have to live in India for 7 yrs or 1 yr, before she become an Indian citizen?

Here are rest of the bulletin, which I think I understand:
# a person of full age and capacity whose parents are registered as citizens of India by ordinary residence in India for seven years;
# a person of full age and capacity who, or either of his parents, was earlier citizen of independent India, and has been residing in India for one year immediately before making an application for registration;
# a person of full age and capacity who has been registered as an overseas citizen of India for five years, and who has been residing in India for one year before making an application for registration.
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The boy has to live in India for 7 yrs continuously?

What type of Visa is provided by the Indian Embassy for the boy, so he can live in India for 7 yrs, but the girl decided to stay outside of India?
 
no_trying said:
I am a Sri Lankan male by birth and naturalized Canadian citizen. How can I become Indian Citizen other than being able to be naturalized by living there 14yrs continuously with valid visa.

Can a boy marry a Indian girl by birth(but the girl does not hold Indian citizenship, but some other country) and obtain Indian citizenship via his wife when she apply for Indian Citizenship in the future?

I know when Indian man(he is a citizen of India) marries a non-Indian girl, his citizenship automatically provides Indian citizenship for her. But is this also true for Indian Girl marrying non-Indian? Does Indian Girl have equal rights as Indian Men in India ;)?
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There are not separate rules for men and women, but there are separate rules for SriLankan, bangladeshis and so forth. Besides, the girl, when she reaches the age of majority will probably loose her right to indian citizenship if she does not choose it at that time, presumung marriage will happen after that age, it will not work for you.
 
kalyani9 said:
There are not separate rules for men and women, but there are separate rules for SriLankan, bangladeshis and so forth. Besides, the girl, when she reaches the age of majority will probably loose her right to indian citizenship if she does not choose it at that time, presumung marriage will happen after that age, it will not work for you.
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If you are born in India, then you should be a citizen, marriage should not be an issue. This is the law in Sri Lanka and all other countries that based their constitution out of English Common Law, eg. India, USA ... Canada.

If the girl gets the Indian citizenship before the marriage then it should apply. How long would it take, for an Indian born who is over the age of 21, to get his/her Oversees Citizenship?
 
Why bother becoming an Indian citizen? Just go live there and no one will be any the wiser. Give some chai/paani when you need to get passport... ask the millions of illegal Bong immigrants that do the same.
 
MagnaHoy said:
Why bother becoming an Indian citizen? Just go live there and no one will be any the wiser. Give some chai/paani when you need to get passport... ask the millions of illegal Bong immigrants that do the same.
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Would you be able to get valid passport (no fake passport) with serious money under the table?
 
cafeconleche said:
Huh? You do realise that LEGALLY you cannot have dual citizenship if you become and Indian, right?
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Absurd not to allow dual citizenship in this modern day. Sri Lanka and Pakistan allows dual citizenship, why India stubborn on this issue? To become a dual citizen is Sri Lanka you just have to provide documents you are born there or one of your parents are from Sri Lanka with $3000 citizenship fee.

Indian government can sure make lot of money from dual application fees and taxes on dual citizen.
 
Dual Citizenship

Well, that is the constitution of India. Not only India, there are several other countries in the world that do not allow dual citizenship - e.g. Germany, Belgium to name a few. At least India has initiated to give OCI to former Indian Citizens or to PIO.
 
s.kumar73 said:
Well, that is the constitution of India. Not only India, there are several other countries in the world that do not allow dual citizenship - e.g. Germany, Belgium to name a few. At least India has initiated to give OCI to former Indian Citizens or to PIO.
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It is possible to retain your German citizenship after naturalizing in the US if you apply for retainer of nationality. Also, Belgium repealed all voluntary nationality loss clauses in 2008. You will not lose Belgian citizenship if you lodge a written declaration of intent to keep Belgian citizenship every 10 years.
 
Denmark and Norway, to name a couple of European countries, are very strict about having just their citizenship, and the exceptions are very few.
 
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