Citizenship Bill asks Indians to wade through a complex maze with documents

In India's northeastern states, which share borders with Myanmar and Bangladesh, the law has unleashed anger and fear about an influx of migrants

As India’s Parliament moved swiftly to amend its laws to prevent undocumented Muslims migrants from neighboring countries from becoming citizens, S M Hadi was busy making sure he could find documents going back generations to prove that his family was Indian.

“We have been sorting through all our old junk to find some proof that my father, grandfather, great grandfather all lived here,” said Hadi, a professor emeritus at Aligarh Muslim University. “There’s such panic it’s ridiculous.”

The new Citizenship Amendment Bill that was approved on Wednesday changed the rules governing the granting of citizenship to undocumented migrants to include religion as