By Elizabeth Weibel
“As part of India-US cooperation on migration and mobility, both sides are engaged in a process to deter illegal migration,” Randhir Jaiswal, a spokesperson for India’s Ministry of External Affairs, told Bloomberg. “This is being done to create more avenues for legal migration from India to the US.”
The majority of the Indians who have been living in the U.S. illegally are reportedly “youth from western India.”
While the actual number “could be much higher,” Bloomberg said the U.S. has identified roughly 18,000 Indian migrants who have been living in the country illegally. The Indian government is reportedly preparing to “verify and start the process of deportation.”
Bloomberg noted that “in return” for India’s cooperation with the U.S., the Indian government “hopes that the Trump administration” will “protect legal immigration channels” that its citizens use to come to the U.S.:
In return for its cooperation, India hopes that the Trump administration would protect legal immigration channels used by its citizens to enter the US such as student visas and the H-1B program for skilled workers. Indian citizens accounted for almost three-fourths of the 386,000 H-1B visas granted in 2023, according to official data.
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