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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

New US citizenship plan could help 200,000 Indians - Tuesday Jan 29,2013


Currently the sixth largest nationality of illegal immigrants behind Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and the Philippines, Indians are also the fastest growing illegal immigrant group in the US since 2000, according to the Department of Homeland Security.


As President Barack Obama is set to announce an immigration reform plan, a bipartisan group of US senators have unveiled their own scheme offering millions of undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship. The compromise plan proposed on Monday by a bipartisan group of eight senatorswould give 11 million undocumented immigrants, including an estimated 200,000 Indians, a provisional status to live and work in America.

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