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Lankan Tamil refugees in India left in limbo, while Delhi exempts them from prosecution
The Island
|September 23, 2025
Tamil refugees, who fled to India before 2015, have been exempted from prosecution under India’s new immigration law, but remain barred from applying for long-term visas or citizenship, leaving more than 90,000 in Tamil Nadu in continued legal limbo.
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The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued an order on 02 September, under the Immigration and Foreigners Act, 2025, exempting “registered Sri Lankan Tamil nationals who have taken shelter in India up to 9th January, 2015,” from penal provisions that would otherwise criminalise their stay for lacking valid passports, travel documents, or visas, according to a report in The Hindu.
The exemption means those registered refugees will not be treated as “illegal migrants” under the new law, which imposes penalties of up to five years’ imprisonment or fines of %5 lakh for undocumented foreigners.
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