According to an OECD report released in Paris-International Migration Outlook: 2023-Indians form the largest national group acquiring rich-country citizenship and Canada logged the biggest proportionate increase-a 174% jump between 2021 and 2022-among host countries.
Last year also saw the highest number of foreign nationals acquiring OECD country citizenship: 28 lakh, a 25% jump over 2021. The report doesn’t provide detailed break-up of country-of-origin data for 2022. But it says India has been the main country of origin when it comes to acquiring OECD country citizenships since 2019.
In 2021, around 1.3 lakh Indians acquired citizenship of an OECD member country. The figure for 2019 was around 1.5 lakh. China came in fifth in this race in 2021 as around 57,000 Chinese acquired OECD country citizenships.
The top three countries in the 38-member OECD that handed out passports to Indian immigrants in 2021 are the US (56,000), Australia (24,000) and Canada (21,000).
Delhi and Ottawa may be locked in a diplomatic standoff, but when it comes to immigration, they are in a jugalbandi. Indians, who top the charts in migrating to OECD countries, also lead in acquiring foreign citizenship (with American citizenship continuing to dominate). Canada has shown the steepest growth in granting citizenship to foreign nationals.
According to an OECD report released in Paris-International Migration Outlook: 2023-Indians form the largest national group acquiring rich-country citizenship and Canada logged the biggest proportionate increase-a 174% jump between 2021 and 2022-among host countries.
Last year also saw the highest number of foreign nationals acquiring OECD country citizenship: 28 lakh, a 25% jump over 2021. The report doesn’t provide detailed break-up of country-of-origin data for 2022. But it says India has been the main country of origin when it comes to acquiring OECD country citizenships since 2019.
In 2021, around 1.3 lakh Indians acquired citizenship of an OECD member country. The figure for 2019 was around 1.5 lakh. China came in fifth in this race in 2021 as around 57,000 Chinese acquired OECD country citizenships.
The top three countries in the 38-member OECD that handed out passports to Indian immigrants in 2021 are the US (56,000), Australia (24,000) and Canada (21,000).