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Citizenship By Descent And The Mandatory Requirement Of Consular Registration: An Analysis Of Dolly Khilankumar Vadalia v. Union Of India
The Gujarat High Court examined whether a person born abroad to Indian parents, who returned to India as an infant under emergency circumstances and never acquired foreign nationality, could claim an Indian passport without fulfilling the mandatory consular registration requirement for citizenship by descent. The case raises critical questions about the interplay between statutory citizenship requirements and humanitarian circumstances, particularly when an individual has lived their entire life in India bu
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