3. The CAA removes the legal barriers to resettlement and citizenship of these persecuted minorities by reducing the years of their resident status in India from 11 to 5 years. It means if people from the 6 religious minorities migrated to India from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh 5 years before December 31, 2014, they will become eligible to get Indian citizenship under the CAA 2019.

4. In the order, the Home Ministry made it clear that the CAA doesn't snatch away the citizenship of any Indian citizen and is only meant to help those people who have been facing religious persecution for years and have no other country to go to except India.

5. The CAA sparked huge protests across the nation on allegations that the act deliberately leaves out one community from its rules, which is against the fundamental right to equality and India's Constitution.