Immigration to US

The number of legal immigrants from India has risen from 539,000 in 1999 to 629,000 in 2007. A survey that analysed census data was released by the Centre for Immigration Studies in the US.

• Findings stated that a little over two million immigrants to the US come from South Asia.
• India accounts for about 1.7 million of whom nearly 39 percent become US citizens.
• Next largest country of origin is Mexico followed by China.
• Asia as a whole accounts for 9 percent of the illegal population.
• Immigrants now account for one in eight US residents, the highest level in 80 years.
• States that saw the largest increase in immigrants were California, Florida, Texas, New Jersey, Illinois, Arizona, Virginia, Maryland, Washington, Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.