The Bill amends the Citizenship Act of 1955 to give eligibility for Indian citizenship to illegal migrants who are Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, and who entered India on or before 31 December 2014. The bill does not include Muslims.[54][55] Immediate beneficiaries of the Bill, according to IB records, will be just over 30,000 people.[56] India's previous citizenship law, Citizenship Act 1955, did not consider religious affiliation to be a criterion for eligibility.[57]