According to a study, India posted the biggest increase among origin countries with eligible immigrants for American citizens, between 2005 and 2015. Around 80% eligible Indian immigrants have opted for American citizenship in 2015, compared to 69% in 2005. This registered a 12% increase, according to the Pew Research Center.
One other origin country that showed increase for the same is Ecuador from Africa, which registered similar 12% point increase between 2005 and 2015.
Pew said, “By 2015, eligible immigrants from India had one of the higher naturalisation rates (80 per cent) due to a 12- percentage-point increase in its naturalisation rate since 2005. Only eligible immigrants from Ecuador (68 per cent in 2015) had as large an increase,”
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“This is a bigger increase than for US immigrants overall, among whom naturalisation rates jumped from 62 percent in 2005 to 67 percent in 2015,” the research center added.
During the same period, the number naturalised immigrants in the US have showed a 37% increase, i.e 14.4 million in 2005 to 19.8 million in 2015. In the year 2015, with 86% and 85% respectively, Vietnam and Iran reported the highest naturalisation rates of any group. Eligible immigrants from China,Honduras and Cuba declined from 2005 to 2015, as per the data from the Pew Research Center.
On the other hand, the United States denied naturalisation applications to nearly one million immigrants between 2005 and 2015.
To gain eligibility for the US citizenship, the immigrant must be 18 years old lived in the US for at least five years as lawful permanent resident or lived in the US for three years for those married to a US citizenship
And must be in a good standing with the law
