‘Over 65,960 Bharatiyas officially became US citizens, making Bharat the second-largest source country for new citizens in America after Mexico’, according to the latest Congressional report.
According to the American Community Survey data from the US Census Bureau, an estimated 46 million foreign-born persons resided in the United States in 2022, approximately 14 % of the total US population of 333 million.
Of these, 24.5 million, about 53 %, reported their status as naturalised citizens. In its latest US Naturalisation Policy report of April 15, the independent Congressional Research Service in the fiscal year 2022, 969,380 individuals became naturalised US citizens.
It said, ‘Individuals born in Mexico highlighted the largest number of naturalisations, followed by persons from Bharat, Philippines, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic’.
Based on the latest available data, in 20222 CRS said, that as many as 128,878, Mexican nationals became American citizens. They were followed by Bharatiyas (65,960), the Philippines (53,413), Cuba (46,913), Dominican Republic (34,525), Vietnam (33,246) and China (27.038).
As of 2023 according to CRS, 2,831,330 foreign-born American nationals were from Bharat, which is the second largest number after Mexico’s 10,638,429. Mexico and Bharat are followed by China with 2,225,447 foreign-born American nationals.
‘However, as many as 42 % of the Bharat-born foreign nationals living in the US are presently ineligible to become US citizens’, according to the CRS report.
As of 2023, as many as 290,000 Bharatiya-born foreign nationals who were on Green Card or Legal Permanent Residency (LPR) were eligible for naturalisation. In recent years CRS said, some observers have expressed concern over USCIS processing backlogs for naturalisation applications.
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