New Delhi: A total of 4,52,109 (4.52 lakh) Indian citizens renounced Indian citizenship to be naturalised as foreign nationals across 117 countries from 2014 to 2017, the Ministry of External Affairs told the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
The answer was tabled in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday in response to a question raised by CPI (M) MP from Tripura Jitendra Chaudhary. The United States alone had over 46,000 Indians become naturalised citizens.
Indians in the US were the second-highest group of naturalised citizens after Mexicans.
"Will the Minister of External Affairs be pleased to state whether a large number of Indians got foreign countries citizenship and if so, the details thereof; whether it is fact that more than 46,000 Indians got US citizenship in 2016, second only to Mexicans and if so, the details thereof and the reasons therefor; and the details of total number of Indians living in foreign countries?," Chaudhary asked the government.