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Dual Passports

By February 9, 2010 at 10:16 AM
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Women who marry Non-Resident Indians would be issued a second passport to protect them from abusive husbands, under a new proposal by India’s Ministry of Women and Child Development.

 
The second passport would be deposited with the Indian consulate and serve as “proof” of marriage. “Often women are dumped by their NRI husbands with their passports being taken away by them. They cannot even come back and the Indian missions abroad also cannot provide much help. Keeping this in view, we are proposing that women who marry NRIs should have two passports, so they can come back if they want to,” Minister Krishna Tirath told The Indian Express.

 

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