The Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 can be broadly considered to be an immigration amnesty scheme.

It does not confer citizenship upon anyone but merely removes the disability on Hindus, Jains, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Parsis from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan from acquisition of citizenship by ‘naturalization’.

Also, Indian courts have generally held that the right of the Union to refuse citizenship is absolute and not fettered by equal protection under Article 14.