Nagpur: ten-month old Riyansh, who met his father Kailash Udasi for the first time last week, entered the country as a foreign national, who needed a visa to reach his father’s house in Jalgaon.
Riyansh, whose story has been reported from time to time by Toi, crossed from the border of Wagah to India along with his mother Sonya on June 26.
This is a typical case of how Covid and restrictions are followed by other people.
The child was conceived in India but was born in Pakistan because the limits closed after the Covid case rose.
Sonya was two months pregnant when she went to Pakistan from Jalgaon in Maharashtra, and left stranded when the border closed as part of the Covid protocol.
Riyansh was born during his stay, making it a Pakistani citizen at birth.
Finally, after the deck was cleaned for his return, he entered India in a visa visit.
The next step is to get a long-term visa (LTV) for him, while citizenship will take another five years.
Now, in this family, father is an Indian citizen, while the mother and child are Pakistan.
The Kailash family is among the migrants from the Consultative Sindh Province who came to India in recent years.
Kailash has confirmed Indian citizenship, and he married Sonya, a Pakistani citizen.
After marriage, he has lived in LTV in India, waiting to get citizenship.
He was two months pregnant when they went to Pakistan on February 2020 for a wedding and stranded there.
Kailash, an Indian citizen must return in the first batch, only means to Indians.
This batch was sent back in June 2020, when Riyansh has not been born.
Two months later, the child was born in Pakistan, and technically became a Pakistani citizen.
Then the struggle appeared to get the document correctly, which included Pakistani passports and Indian visas for the child.
“He came to the fresh visa, which was given for a visit.
This will be followed by the application for LTV and then citizenship,” Kailash said.
Rajesh Jhambia, the Association of President Sindhi-Hindi, a group of recent migrants from Pakistan, said that having Riyansh born in India would make it an Indian citizen.
If both parents are Indians, the child can still immediately get Indian citizenship, even if he was born abroad.
However, because the mother was still Pakistan, the child had to register separately.
Mother’s day gets Indian citizenship, even the status of a child will change, he said.