The Indian government issued regulations implementing the amended Citizenship Law issued in December 2019. It was not implemented at the time due to major protests across the country and the Corona pandemic.

A Muslim who does not have these papers will be denied citizenship, while non-Muslims will obtain it by claiming to have come from Pakistan, Afghanistan or Bangladesh. The Indian government says - in its statements - that this law is not against Muslims. But that contradicts the truth because the implemented part gives citizenship to non-Muslim legal immigrants already in India.