Question

How can a person become a citizen of India if he was born abroad?
A. Father is a citizen of India
B. Mother is a citizen of India
C. Father is a citizen of India at the time of birth
D. Father or mother is a citizen of India at the time of person’s birth.

Answer 1

Hint: Citizenship is the legal status of a person who is accepted as belonging to a country (and/or local jurisdiction) by the law of that country (and/or local jurisdiction). It is membership of a sovereign state in international law.

Complete answer:
Citizenship in India can be obtained in four ways: birth, descent, registration, and naturalization.
If a person was born outside India on or after January 26, 1950, his or her father was a citizen of India by birth, he or she is a citizen of India by descent. If either of his or her parents was an Indian citizen by birth, he or she was born outside India on or after December 10, 1992, but before December 3, 2004.

Naturalization can be obtained by a foreigner who has been normally resident in India for 12 months (during the 12 months immediately preceding the date of application and for 11 years in the 14 years preceding the 12 months) and satisfies other criteria.

Additional information:
Each state is free to decide under what circumstances it will accept people as citizens and under what circumstances that status will be revoked. A state's acceptance of an individual as a citizen normally entails the recognition of legal, political, and social rights that non-citizens do not have.

The right to a passport, the right to leave and return to the country/ies of citizenship, and the right to live and work in that country are the fundamental rights usually regarded as arising from citizenship.

Hence, the correct answer is option D.

Note: A refugee is a person who is outside his or her country of origin and is unable or unwilling to return due to persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on the basis of ethnicity, faith, nationality, membership in a specific social group, or political opinion.