Washington: In the year 2022, at least 65,960 Indians officially became American citizens and with this, India has reached second place after Mexico in terms of the number of people from countries who have got American citizenship. According to data from the US Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, an estimated 46 million foreign-born people lived in the US in 2022, which is about 14 percent of the total US population of 333 million.
This country has the largest number of people
According to the independent ‘Congressional Research Service’ (CRS) latest report dated April 15 on ‘US Naturalization Policy’ (US Citizenship Policy) for FY 2022, 9,69,380 persons became US citizens in FY 2022. “The largest number of people seeking U.S. citizenship were those born in Mexico,” the report said. After this, the largest number of people from India, Philippines, Cuba and Dominican Republic got American citizenship.
Know India’s number
CRS reported that 1,28,878 Mexican citizens became US citizens in 2022. After them, people from India (65,960), Philippines (53,413), Cuba (46,913), Dominican Republic (34,525), Vietnam (33,246) and China (27,038) got US citizenship. He said that by 2023, the number of people from India among foreign-born American citizens was 2,831,330, which is the second highest number after Mexico (10,638,429). After this, China (2,225,447) is next in this list. The CRS report also said that about 42 percent of Indian-born foreign nationals living in the US are currently ineligible to become US citizens. (Language)
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