Can a protest FIR stop your passport, foreign degree or career?

Summary

"I have no fear of police cases. The students at the protest site told India Today Digital they were not trying to attack anyone. India Today TV later reported that the system flagged more than 2,500 people with existing criminal records. Ashwini Verma, 28, from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh, spoke to India Today Digital a day before Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned . Only people with bad intentions or criminals fear police cases, not students like us," he told India Today Digital. A Supreme Court advocate who has been attending the protests regularly, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the fear is real and justified. Tomorrow, if I go to apply for a visa or any kind of thing where I need to declare that I have an FIR against me, it does play a role in getting a visa or higher education and jobs. Even if the FIR is closed and I have been acquitted, I still have to declare it in many places, including passport, visa applications. They are hiding their identity because Delhi Police is doing mass surveillance," the Supreme Court advocate explained. "It is very difficult [to participate in protests], especially for policy professionals who see the workings of the government.