Immigration and Foreigners Act, 2025
Bare Act · 2025
An Act to confer upon the Central Government certain powers to provide for requirement of passports or other travel documents in respect of persons entering into and exiting from India and for regulating matters related to foreigners including requirement of visa and registration and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
In the syllabus of: Andhra Pradesh APO · Tamil Nadu APO · Telangana APO · UP APO
- Act number
- 13 of 2025
- Enacted
- 4 April 2025
- Contents
- 36 sections · 6 chapters
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Contents
Chapter I — Preliminary
Chapter II — Matters Related To Immigration
- Section 3 – Requirement of passport or other travel document and visa
- Section 4 – Immigration posts for entry or exit
- Section 5 – Bureau of Immigration
Chapter III — Matters Related To Foreigners
- Section 6 – Registration of foreigners (preview)
- Section 7 – Power to issue orders, directions or instructions (preview)
- Section 8 – Obligation of keeper of accommodation and others to furnish particulars (preview)
- Section 9 – Obligation of Universities and Educational Institutions (preview)
- Section 10 – Obligation of hospital, nursing home or any other medical institution (preview)
- Section 11 – Visit to Protected or Restricted area or Prohibited places (preview)
- Section 12 – Change of name of foreigner in India (preview)
- Section 13 – Foreigners whose movements are restricted (preview)
- Section 14 – Power to control places frequented by foreigners (preview)
- Section 15 – Foreigner who is national of more than one foreign country (preview)
- Section 16 – Burden of proof (preview)
Chapter IV — Liability Of Carriers
Chapter V — Offences, Penalties And Appeal
- Section 18 – Liability of carrier to pay penalty (preview)
- Section 19 – Liability of carriers for passengers brought into India (preview)
- Section 20 – Contravention or attempts to contravene provisions of Act (preview)
- Section 21 – Penalty for entry without valid passport or other travel document (preview)
- Section 22 – Penalty for using or supplying forged or fraudulently obtained passport or other travel document and visa (preview)
- Section 23 – Penalty for contraventions of other provisions of this Act (preview)
- Section 24 – Penalty for abetment (preview)
- Section 25 – Compounding of certain offences (preview)
- Section 26 – Power to arrest (preview)
Chapter VI — Miscellaneous
- Section 27 – Power to give effect to orders, directions, and like (preview)
- Section 28 – Power to delegate authority (preview)
- Section 29 – Power of removal (preview)
- Section 30 – Power to make rules (preview)
- Section 31 – Rules to be laid Before Parliament (preview)
- Section 32 – Protection of action taken in good faith (preview)
- Section 33 – Power to exempt in certain cases (preview)
- Section 34 – Application of other laws not barred (preview)
- Section 35 – Power to remove difficulties (preview)
- Section 36 – Repeal and saving (preview)