New Delhi: The number of Indians who became foreign nationals in just nine months between January and September 2021 were 25 times the foreigners who became Indian citizens in five years.
Separate data from the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and the Interior Ministry (MHA) shows that while more than 1.1 Indians Lakh left their citizenship for another country in the first nine months of 2021, India provided citizenship to 4,177 foreigners in Indonesia five Year between January 2016 and December 2020.
10,635 other applications seeking Indian citizenship is waiting with MHA on December 12, 2021.
And, even if all of this is given citizenship – it is impossible to occur in the number of applications agreed in each of the last five years – Foreigners who become Indians will only be 14,815.
Relatively, MEA data showed nearly 6.1 lakh India became a foreign national between 2017 and 2021, and it was more than 8 lakh if ​​the number 2016 was inserted.
Vikram Shroff, Leader, HR Law at Nishith Desai Associates, said: “…
The number of Indians prefers other state citizenship, especially developed, is expected to continue as a trend.
However, there are several countries, including several European countries and others Outside North America that constantly makes it easier for talented people to get residencies, which in turn makes it easy to get citizenship.
“Other experts show that considering the large population of India, resources and opportunities will definitely be rare and people -People will definitely look outwardly.
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while countries like the US and Britain have some visa limits, many other countries want to attract good talents from all over the world and Indian citizens see this as an opportunity,” he added.
Country-scored analysis of state-wise analysis of data shows that 42% of more than 6 Indian lakh became US citizens in the five-year word, while in nine months 2021, one in two Indians who left citizenship they did it as citizens US.
After the US, Canada gave the majority of citizenship to India (91,000) in that period, followed by Australia (86,933) and England (66,193) and Italy (23,940).
Eighty-six other countries together gave citizenship to 83,191 other Indians.
While the state farewell-wise for people who are given Indian citizenship in 2020 are not available, data for 2016-2019 clearly shows that most of them are neighbors and from the US.
Of the 3,538 people who obtain Indian citizenship between 2016 and 2019, Pakistan (2,405) contributed 68%, followed by Afghanistan (431), Bangladesh (132), Sri Lanka (92) and those from the US (80).
Also, from 10,635 applications delayed by MHA in December 2021, 7,306 came from Pakistan, followed by 1,152 from Afghanistan and 428 were people without citizenship.
Those who from Sri Lanka and the US also managed to reach the top five.