കുട്ടികള്‍ക്ക് ഇരട്ട പൗരത്വത്തിനുള്ള ദേവയാനിയുടെ അപേക്ഷ ആഭ്യന്തര വകുപ്പ് തള്ളി
ജോലിക്കാരിയുടെ വിസയില്‍ കൃത്യമം നടത്തിയെന്നാരോപിച്ചു അറസ്റ്റ് ചെയപ്പെട്ട ന്യൂയോര്‍ക്ക് മുന്‍ ഇന്ത്യന്‍ ഡപ്യൂട്ടി കോണ്‍സല്‍ ജനറല്‍ ഡോ. ദേവയാനി കോബ്രഗേഡെയുടെ കുട്ടികള്‍ ഇന്ത്യന്‍ പാസ് പോര്‍ട്ടിന് സമര്‍പ്പിച്ച അപേക്ഷ തളളികൊണ്ടാണ് ഉത്തരവ്.
ദേവയാനിയുടെ മക്കള്‍ മുംബയിലാണു ജനിച്ചത്. എന്നാല്‍ ഭര്‍ത്താവ് അമേരിക്കന്‍ പൗരനാണെന്നതിനാല്‍ മക്കള്‍ക്ക് പിന്നീടു യു.എസ്. പാസ്‌പോര്‍ട്ട് എടുത്തു. അമേരിക്കന്‍ പൗരന്റെ മക്കളെന്ന നിലക്ക് അവര്‍ക്ക് അമേരിക്കന്‍ പൗരത്വത്തിനു അര്‍ഹതയുണ്ട്. പക്ഷെ ഇക്കാര്യം മറച്ചു വച്ച് കുട്ടികള്‍ക്ക് ഇന്ത്യന്‍ പാസ്‌പോര്‍ട്ട് കൂടി എടുക്കുകയായിരുന്നു.
ഇതറിഞ്ഞതിനെത്തുടര്‍ന്ന് കുട്ടികളുടെ ഇന്ത്യന്‍ പാസ്‌പോര്‍ട്ട് റദ്ദാക്കി. ഇതിനെ ദേവയാനി ഡല്‍ഹി ഹൈക്കോടതിയില്‍ ചോദ്യം ചെയ്തു.തങ്ങളൊടു വിശദീകരണം പോലും ചോദിക്കാതെയാണു പാസ്‌പോര്‍ട്ട് റദ്ദാക്കിയതെന്നും അതു സ്വാഭാവിക നീതിക്കു നിരക്കുന്നതല്ലെന്നും അവര്‍ കോടതിയില്‍ ചൂണ്ടിക്കാട്ടി.
വിദേശകാര്യ മന്ത്രാലയത്തെ അറിയിക്കാതെ ദേവയാനി രണ്ട് പെണ്‍മക്കള്‍ക്ക് ഇന്ത്യന്‍ പാസ്‌പോര്‍ട്ട് സംഘടിപ്പിച്ചത് ഇന്ത്യന്‍ നിയമങ്ങളുടെ ലംഘനമാണെന്നും ഇത് ദേവയാനിയുടെ വിശ്വാസ്യതയെ ചോദ്യം ചെയ്യുന്നതാണെന്നും വിദേശകാര്യവകുപ്പ് കോടതിയില്‍ ബോധിപ്പിച്ചിരുന്നു. അടുത്തയിടക്ക് പ്രധാന തസ്തികയില്‍ അവരെ നിയമിച്ചുവെങ്കിലും അവര്‍ക്ക് എതിരായ നടപടികള്‍ തുടരുന്നു എന്ന സൂചനയാണു ഇതു നല്‍കുന്നത്.
കേസിന്റെ പശ്ചാത്തലത്തിലണു അവര്‍ വീണ്ടും ഇന്ത്യന്‍ പാസ്‌പോര്‍ട്ടിനായി ആഭ്യന്തര വകുപ്പിനു അപേക്ഷ നല്‍കിയത്.
അമേരിക്കയിലേക്ക് യാത്ര ചെയ്യുന്നതിന് മാത്രമാണ് അമേരിക്കന്‍ പാസ്‌പോര്‍ട്ടെന്നും, ഇന്ത്യയില്‍ താമസിക്കാന്‍ ഇന്ത്യന്‍ പാസ്‌പോര്‍ട്ടിന് (ഇരട്ട പൗരത്വം) അര്‍ഹതയുണ്ടെന്നുമുളള വാദമാണ് ആഭ്യന്തര വകുപ്പ് തളളികളഞ്ഞത്.
വിദേശ നയതന്ത്ര പ്രതിനിധികളുടെ മക്കള്‍ക്ക് വിദേശ പാസ്‌പോര്‍ട്ട് ഉണ്ടെങ്കിലും ഇന്ത്യയില്‍ താമസിക്കുന്ന കാലഘട്ടത്തില്‍ ഇന്ത്യന്‍ പാസ്‌പോര്‍ട്ട് അനുവദിക്കുന്നുണ്ടെന്നു മന്ത്രാലയം വ്യക്തമാക്കി. പക്ഷെ ഇതു ഇന്ത്യക്കു പുറത്തു ജനിക്കുന്നവര്‍ക്കാണു. ദേവയാനിയുടെ കുട്ടികള്‍ ജനിച്ചത് ഇന്ത്യയില്‍ തന്നെ ആണെന്നു ആഭ്യന്തര വകുപ്പ് ചൂണ്ടിക്കാട്ടി.
ഉദാഹരണത്തിനു ഇന്ത്യന്‍ നയതന്ത്ര പ്രതിനിധിക്ക് അമേരിക്കയില്‍ കുട്ടി ജനിച്ചാല്‍ ആ കുട്ടിക്ക് അമേരിക്കന്‍ പൗരത്വത്തിനു അര്‍ഹതയുണ്ട്. പക്ഷെ ഇന്ത്യന്‍ പാസ്‌പോര്‍ട്ടിനും അപെക്ഷിക്കാം.
ദേവയാനിയുടെ ഭര്‍ത്താവ് അമേരിക്കക്കാരനായതിനാല്‍ കുട്ടികള്‍ ജനിച്ചത് ഇന്ത്യയിലാണെങ്കിലും അവര്‍ക്ക് അമേരിക്കന്‍ പൗരത്വത്തിനു അര്‍ഹതയുണ്ട്. അപ്പോല്‍ പിന്നെ വിദേശത്തു ജനിച്ചാലെ ഇന്ത്യന്‍ പാസ്‌പോര്‍ട്ട് കൂടി നല്‍കൂ എന്നു ആഭ്യന്തര വകുപ്പ് നിര്‍ദേശിക്കുന്നതില്‍ ചിന്താക്കുഴപ്പവും നിലനില്‍ക്കുന്നു.
എന്തായാലും അമേരിക്കന്‍ പൗരത്വം മറച്ചുവെച്ച് ഇന്ത്യന്‍ പാസ്‌പോര്‍ട്ടിന് അപേക്ഷ നല്‍കിയത് കുറ്റകരമാണെന്നു ആഭ്യന്തര വകുപ്പ് വ്യക്തമാക്കി.
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New Delhi:
The Home Ministry has rejected IFS officer Devyani Khobragade's plea of dual
citizenship for her children, who are American nationals, saying Indian law
does not allow this, NDTV reported.
Ms Khobragade, who was arrested in the US in 2013 when she was India's Deputy
Consul-General in New York on visa fraud charges, had approached the Home
Ministry officials recently and requested them to consider her plea of dual
citizenship for her two daughters.
"We have conveyed to Khobragade that her children are not eligible for
dual citizenship and hence her plea cannot be processed," a senior Home
Ministry official said.
Her daughters were born in India
but took US
citizenship as Ms Khobragade's husband is an American national. The IFS officer
is accused of suppressing this fact to her employer (Ministry of External
Affairs). The children had Indian passport too.
After coming to know that Ms Khobragade's daughters were having US passport,
the MEA had revoked the children's Indian passports and they challenged this in
the court.
Government took the action as the provision of dual citizenship is only
applicable to those children who were born outside India and as Ms Khobragade's
daughters were born in Mumbai, they are not covered by this provision.
(Children born in America
automatically becomes US
citizen. But since their parents are Indian diplomats, they can claim Indian
citizenship. In Devyani’s case too, her children are born US citizens as her
husband is an American. The Home ministry order is not clear as regards this,
observers noted)
Children of foreign diplomats, who are born in India, are also given dual
citizenship till the period of their parents' service in India.
Government had recently told the Delhi High Court that Ms Khobragade obtained
US and Indian passports for her two daughters in violation of law and without
informing the MEA, which raises serious questions about her
"trustworthiness and integrity".
"Devyani Khobragade's submission that the US
passports were only used for travel to USA does not in any way dilute the
gravity and seriousness of her misdemeanour and are blatant violations of
Indian Passports Act," it had said.
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when she was arrested in NY remember some അല് കിളുത്ത മലയാളികള്‍ ഇവള്‍ക് സപ്പോര്‍ട്ട് കൊടുത്തു ഓടി കൂടിയത് .
I don’t agree with you Paul. Any children born in USA are considered US citizens even if their parents are illegal. Texas is the only state asking for valid US IDs of the parents to issue the birth certificates to the children but still they cannot deny the citizenship of the child. But, in Devayanes case, her children are born here for her US citizen husband. What I understand is that she tried to get Indian Passport for her children in India and they refused it on the ground that her children are born in US. It is amazing how people are trying to circumvent the laws and especially a diplomat like her and get things done. This is nothing other than arrogance and abuse of power.
Here are the excerpts from USCIS;
“A person born in the United States to a foreign diplomatic officer accredited to the United States is not subject to the jurisdiction of United States law. Therefore, that person cannot be considered a U.S. citizen at birth under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. This person may, however, be considered a permanent resident at birth and able to receive a green card through creation of record.
To determine whether your parent is a foreign diplomatic officer, your parent’s accredited title must be listed in the State Department Diplomatic List, also known as the Blue List. This list includes:
· Ambassadors.
· Ministers.
· Charges d’affaires.
· Counselors.
· Secretaries and attaches of embassies and legations.
· Members of the Delegation of the Commission of the European Communities.
It also includes those with comparable diplomatic status and immunities assigned to the United Nations or to the Organization of American States and other persons who have comparable diplomatic status.
For more information, refer to Section 101(a)(20), 103, 262, 264 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and 8 CFR 101.3, 101.4 and 264.2.
Eligibility Criteria;
· You may be eligible to receive a green card (permanent residence) through creation of record if you meet all of the following conditions:
· You were born in the United States to a foreign diplomat
· You have had residence in this country continuously since birth
· You have not abandoned your residence in the United States.
Devyani and her crooked family hid the fact that the kids have US passports. As per the INA Act, a child born abroad to one U.S. citizen parent and one alien parent acquires U.S. citizenship at birth under Section 301(g) of the INA provided the U.S. citizen parent was physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for the time period required by the law applicable at the time of the child's birth. (For birth on or after November 14, 1986, a period of five years physical presence, two after the age of fourteen, is required. For birth between December 24, 1952 and November 13, 1986, a period of ten years, five after the age of fourteen, is required for physical presence in the United States or one of its outlying possessions to transmit U.S. citizenship to the child.) The U.S. citizen parent must be the genetic or the gestational parent and the legal parent of the child under local law at the time and place of the child’s birth to transmit U.S. citizenship.
Article 9 of Indian Constitution says that a person who voluntarily acquires citizenship of any other country is no longer an Indian citizen. Also, according to The Passports Act, a person has to surrender his Indian passport; it is a punishable offense under the act if he fails to surrender the passport. This goes for minors as well. So she lied to the GOI and asked to issue Indian passports for the kids on the premise that the kids were born to a Devyani while she was serving as the Attaché that deemed Indian Territory, as I mentioned earlier. She was just playing with the law, thinking nobody will notice it, since it’s India, anything goes. Devyani and her father, as we know, are crooks. So there is no surprise here. Every time they get caught, they cry foul and play victims themselves.
It looks like VadaNY is too much excited about the Devayani case. Mr. VadaNY for your understanding Devayani’s husband is US citizen and the children were born here. By producing the birth certificate from the hospital with proper ID one can obtain the birth certificate issued by the government with that you can apply for the passport for the children. It is unfair to call her crooked because the housemaid she brought to USA wanted to come to USA and she probably bargained with her and got a contract for cheap labor. When the housemaid got into USA she got with an immigration attorney and under his/her guidance he betrayed her filed for asylum. To make the long story short most of the Indians are crooked they do this kind of things. So don’t get too much excited man cool down.
You need to follow news to understand the Khobragade family. FRAUD'S BY KHOBRAGHADE clan;
IFS FRAUD
The rules for allotment of foreign language to the IFS officers on the basis of their rank in the select list was changed only for her batch (1999) to ensure Devyani got her chosen language (German).
The Supreme Court found this in a judgment that was delivered three and half years ago while reinstating a dismissed IFS officer Mahaveer V Singhvi and imposing a fine of Rs 25,000 on the Union government for wrongfully terminating the services of the 1999 batch IFS officer.
ADARSH FRAUD
The Central Bureau of Investigation has decided to file a charge sheet against Devyani and her father, Uttam Khobragade, in the Adarsh Housing scam.
Sources said the charge sheet against the two would be filed in the next couple of weeks after the agency found "documentary evidence" to prove that Devyani obtained a flat in Adarsh Housing society on the basis of a false affidavit.
"It was Devyani's father Uttam Khobragade who gave a false affidavit on her behalf while she was posted in the United States in which he hid information about already possessing a flat in Oshiwara under the government quota," said a senior CBI officer. The agency has been probing illegal beneficiaries and benami properties in the Adarsh scam apart from the conspiracy.
MHADA FRAUD
Devyani owned a flat at MHDA building in Oshiwara. She had earlier been allotted a flat in another government housing society in Oshiwara in 2005. This was despite specific guidelines in housing societies which forbid members from owning more than one property in the same city. Devyani Khobragade was found to have owned a flat in the controversial Adarsh housing society in 2010. "In fact, members cannot get flats in two housing societies which get land on concessional rates and they have to give an affidavit to this effect," an official of the Directorate General of Defense Estates said. Devyani and her father lied.
INCREASING FSI (FRAUD BY UTAM KHOBRAGDE)
Devyani Khobragade owns a flat in the infamous Adarsh. Her father Uttam Khobragade was one of the bureaucrats who allegedly misused their positions to help Adarsh. It was during his tenure as general manager of BEST, the civic-owned bus and electricity utility in Mumbai, that the Adarsh Society got additional building rights from an adjacent BEST bus depot. This allowed the society promoters to increase the original plan of six floors to a massive 31 floors. While the Khobragades may want us to believe this is mere coincidence, only other bureaucrats and politicians caught with their hands in the Adarsh till may take such a claim at face value.
KINGLONG BUSES FRAUD (UTTAM KHOBRAGADE FRAUD) (THESE BUSES ARE ALSO CALLED AS RICKETY CLUNKERS)
On 29 August 2012 an investigation conducted by the newspaper Mumbai Mirror revealed that the buses were actually manufactured by an Indian company, JayCee Coach Builders Limited (JCBL), at Lalru, Mohali in Punjab. The investigation claimed that the buses were in fact branded Cerita, and their logo was covered up during the inauguration ceremony with elaborate floral decoration. Sannis Wang, deputy general manager of King Long's Overseas after Sales Department claimed that it only had a limited contract to provide some bus parts to JCBL.
And many more. You need to use that little thing in your thick skull to understand it. PO MONE DINESHA.
Infact Kobhrayani's husband ( US citizen) should have renounced his US citizenship and taken Indian citizenship as as pre condition to comply with Indian rules to marry an Indian diplomat, which he didn't do. So that is another violation Indian govt ( previous ) turned a blind eye.
Followin from Indian MEA ( Ministry of external Affairs ):
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The fact that the Ministry of External Affairs chose to look the other way when it came to the question of Ms Devynai Khobragade's husband not taking up Indian citizenship years after their marriage is something well known within the ministry. Sources in the government said no one wanted to apply the rules as long as no one noticed the discrepancy.
The rule book of the MEA is quite clear on the matter of IFS officers marrying foreign nationals. Clause 8 (1) of the Indian Foreign Service (Conduct and Discipline) Rules, 1986 says no member of the service shall marry any person other than an Indian citizen "without the prior permission in writing of the Government". Officers who intend to marry foreign nationals have to make a written application to the Foreign Secretary and give the Government one year to reply.
Clause 8(3) says: "If a member of the Service contracts marriage with a person other than an Indian citizen without obtaining prior written permission, he shall be liable to be removed from the service". The rules further state that the Government reserves the right to refuse permission if it thinks the marriage affects "the due and proper performance of the duties of the member of the service". In case permission is accorded, "the Government may stipulate such conditions as it may deem appropriate". Permission is granted on the commitment of the IFS officer that his/her spouse will adopt Indian citizenship after the marriage.
Sources in the MEA pointed out that in Ms Khobragade's case, this commitment made by her has simply not been kept. To make matters worse, everyone is aware of the rule violation but over the years no action has been taken to correct matters.
Highly placed sources in the government also pointed out that when Ms Khobragade was posted to Pakistan, she and her influential father, Mr Uttam Khobragade, pulled enough strings to ensure that the ministry gave permission to her spouse, an American citizen, to reside with her. Many an eyebrow had been raised even then since Pakistan is considered a sensitive posting.
When asked for a response on Ms Khobragade's open violation of the rule book, the MEA chose to play it silent, in keeping with tradition over all these years.