The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 of the Parliament of India amended the Citizenship Act of 1955 providing a path to Indian citizenship for religious minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.[2] The religious minorities given eligibility were listed as Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians.[2] Muslims were not given such eligibility.[3][4][5][6][7] The beneficiaries had to have entered India on or before 31 December 2014, and should have faced "religious persecution or fear of religious persecution" in their countries of origin.[lower-alpha 1] The Act also relaxed residence requirement for naturalization from 11 years to 5 years for these migrants.[10]