{"id":57520,"date":"2018-10-19T18:45:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T01:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/?p=57520"},"modified":"2018-10-19T18:45:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T01:45:35","slug":"50000-indians-took-u-s-citizenship-in-2017-official-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/50000-indians-took-u-s-citizenship-in-2017-official-report\/","title":{"rendered":"50,000 Indians Took U.S. Citizenship in 2017: Official Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A person holds an American flag as they participate in a ceremony to become an American citizen during a U.S. Citizenship &amp; Immigration Services naturalization ceremony at the Miami Field Office. Aug. 17, in Miami, Fla. (Joe Raedle\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Over 50,000 Indians were granted the American citizenship in 2017, four thousand more than the previous year, according to the latest official report, writes\u00a0<strong>Lalit K. Jha.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security in its latest annual immigration report said that in 2017, as many as 50,802 Indians took citizenship of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>This is four thousand more than 2016&#8217;s figure of 46,188 Indian naturalization and eight thousand more than 42,213 Indian citizenship in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>In all, 707,265 foreign nationals took the oath of American citizenship in 2017, as against 753,060 in 2016 and 730,259 in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Mexico with 118,559 citizenships topped the list among all foreign nationals.<\/p>\n<p>India was a distant second, followed by China (37,674); the Philippines (36,828); Dominican Republic (29,734); Cuba (25,961).<\/p>\n<p>Figures indicated that more females (396,234) took American citizenship than male (310,987).<\/p>\n<p>The report indicates that as many as 12,000 newly naturalized American citizens from India settled in California, followed by New Jersey (5,900), and Texas about 3,700.<\/p>\n<p>More than 7,100 naturalized Americans lived in the regions of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A person holds an American flag as they participate in a ceremony to become an American citizen during a U.S. Citizenship &amp; Immigration Services naturalization ceremony at the Miami Field Office. Aug. 17, in Miami, Fla. (Joe Raedle\/Getty Images) Over 50,000 Indians were granted the American citizenship in 2017, four thousand more than the previous&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/50000-indians-took-u-s-citizenship-in-2017-official-report\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":57487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,275,5,1292,11,72,19,20],"tags":[1019,7052,50,106,4540,147,3140],"class_list":["post-57520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-tech","category-community","category-current-affairs","category-legalissues","category-lifestyle","category-politics-current-affairs","category-topics","category-youth","tag-immigration","tag-citizenship","tag-india","tag-indian-american","tag-lalit-k-jha","tag-siliconeer","tag-us"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}