Part II · CITIZENSHIP

Article 7 Rights of citizenship of certain migrants to Pakistan.

This article covered movement the other way. A person who migrated from India to Pakistan after 1 March 1947 was not to be a citizen of India. There was one exception. A person who returned under a permit for resettlement could become a citizen after registration. The article kept citizenship from surviving a permanent move away.

1. Notwithstanding anything in articles 5 and 6, a person who has after the first day of March, 1947, migrated from the territory of India to the territory now included in Pakistan shall not be deemed to be a citizen of India: THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA (Part II.—Citizenship) Provided that nothing in this article shall apply to a person who, after having so migrated to the territory now included in Pakistan, has returned to the territory of India under a permit for resettlement or permanent return issued by or under the authority of any law and every such person shall for the purposes of clause (b) of article 6 be deemed to have migrated to the territory of India after the nineteenth day of July, 1948.

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