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Snapshot of the day

January 23, 2025

Sidharth Bhatia

Delays to the tune of 400 days in Indians’ being issued US visas do not serve the bilateral relationship all that well, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said at a presser yesterday after meeting his counterpart in Washington Marco Rubio. He acknowledged discussing the “mobility of people” with Rubio but suggested that figures on the number of Indians facing deportation proceedings in America may not necessarily be all correct: “I’ve seen some numbers. I caution you about them because for us, a number is operative when we can actually validate the fact that the individual concerned is of Indian origin.”

Indian nationals’ share among the total number of foreigners who were granted American citizenship declined in over all in four years of the Biden presidency, although the number of Indians granted US citizenship rose for the first two years of his presidency and then fell for the remaining two, Sindhu Hariharan’s perusal of official US data shows.