The second amendment in Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 concerns the number of years required to be resident in India to be eligible to apply for citizenship. This is called the citizenship by naturalisation process in Sec 6.1 of the original Act of 1955. The further details of qualification for naturalisation are in Schedule III of the Act. It states that any person who has been resident of India for the preceding eleven years is eligible for citizenship by naturalisation. There is no mention of religion. However the CAA 2019 reduces the number of years of residency required on the basis of religion to five years for all from the three countries mentioned earlier, except Muslims. This too is clearly discriminatory.