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A Goa-based activist has alleged that he is being targeted for taking up public interest issues against “successive governments” and for trying to point to alleged illegalities surrounding BJP leader and former minister Smriti Irani’s daughter’s cafe in Goa through RTI applications. 

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi often draws crowds of supporters from the Indian diaspora on his foreign visits. But back home, his administration has been revoking visas and residency permits of foreign nationals of Indian origin as well as spouses of Indian citizens. For those denied access or kicked out…

Banks have no power in law to either withhold or retain a passport issued by a foreign country or the Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card, the High Court of Karnataka has said.

The Foreigners’ Regional Registration Office should set its house in order and forthwith stop being quixotic in granting extension of medical visa or medical attendant visa to foreigners, said the High Court of Karnataka on noticing that the visa of a Yemen national was extended multiple times without verifying medical…

FRRO Chennai wrote to MEA Consular Div. Nov. 12, 2022 to issue travel docs to 4 Sri Lankan life convicts released from prison. MEA yet to respond, so convicts detained in Tiruchi special camp. Petitioner seeks release of husband, but FRRO cites 2014 MHA circular to detain foreigners without valid…

The Madras High Court on Thursday ordered notices, returnable in six weeks, to the Foreigners Regional Registration Officer (FRRO) in Chennai, the Public Secretary and the Tiruchi Collector on a writ petition filed by a former convict in the PM Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, S. Nalini, who wants her husband…

Can refugees who feel threatened in their home nation be deported? What are the government’s obligations?