“The Government of India believes that asylum seekers, while applying for asylum to a foreign government, denigrate the nation and society to obtain personal gains, despite the fact that India, being a democratic country, provides avenues for everyone to redress their grievances lawfully.” This was Indian Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh’s response to a data from the US department of homeland security confirming an 855% increase in Indians migrating to the US in the last three years.
However, he revealed that no such data was available with the Government of India as the “foreign governments concerned cite inability to share such data due to privacy and data protection laws”.
The US data showed the rise of asylum applications from 4,330 in 2021 to 41,330 in the financial year 2023, with nearly half of the applicants from Gujarat. – editor@nrifocus.com
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