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The Centre has appointed 3 caller Foreigners Regional Registration Officers nether the Bureau of Immigration successful Chandigarh, Jaipur and Guwahati, a authorities bid said.
According to a gazette notification connected Wednesday (November 26, 2025), the recently appointed Foreigners Regional Registration Officer (FRRO) for Chandigarh volition screen the Union Territory and Haryana, the FRRO for Jaipur volition screen Rajasthan, and the FRRO for Guwahati volition screen Assam.
Earlier, Rajasthan and Haryana were covered by the FRRO for Delhi, Chandigarh was covered by the FRRO for Amritsar, portion Assam was covered by the FRRO for Kolkata.
The appointments person been made nether the caller Immigration and Foreigners Act, 2025, which came into effect connected September 1 this year.
The Immigration and Foreigners Act, 2025 was passed by Parliament during the Budget session. President Droupadi Murmu gave her assent connected April 4, 2025.
The broad authorities regulates each matters related to foreigners and immigration, which were until past administered done 4 Acts— the Passport (Entry into India) Act, 1920; the Registration of Foreigners Act, 1939; the Foreigners Act, 1946, and the Immigration (Carriers' Liability) Act, 2000.
All these laws person been repealed.
The caller Act has provisions for dense punishment for foreigners carrying a forged passport oregon visa.
According to the law, henceforth, anyone recovered to beryllium utilizing a forged passport oregon visa to participate India, enactment successful oregon exit from the state volition beryllium punishable with a jailhouse word of up to 7 years and a good of up to ₹10 lakh.
The Act besides makes it mandatory for hotels, universities and different acquisition institutions, and hospitals and nursing homes to furnish accusation astir foreigners, to alteration tracking of those overstaying.
All planetary airlines and ships are besides mandated to taxable accusation astir the passengers and unit onboard, to a civilian authorization oregon migration serviceman astatine a larboard oregon spot successful India.
