<p class="title">Over 50,000 Indians were granted American citizenship in 2017, four thousand more than the previous year, according to the latest official report.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Department of Homeland Security in its latest annual immigration report said that in 2017, as many as 50,802 Indians took citizenship of the United States.</p>.<p class="bodytext">This is four thousand more than 2016's figure of 46,188 Indian naturalizations and eight thousand more than 42,213 Indian citizenship in 2015.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In all, 707,265 foreign nationals took the oath of American citizenship in 2017, as against 753,060 in 2016 and 730,259 in 2015.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mexico with 118,559 citizenships topped the list among all foreign nationals.</p>.<p class="bodytext">India was a distant second, followed by China (37,674); the Philippines (36,828); Dominican Republic (29,734); Cuba (25,961).</p>.<p class="bodytext">Figures indicated that more females (396,234) took American citizenship than male (310,987).</p>.<p class="bodytext">The report indicates that as many as 12,000 newly naturalized American citizens from India settled in California, followed by New Jersey (5,900), and Texas about 3,700.</p>.<p class="bodytext">More than 7,100 naturalized Americans lived in the regions of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.</p>
<p class="title">Over 50,000 Indians were granted American citizenship in 2017, four thousand more than the previous year, according to the latest official report.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Department of Homeland Security in its latest annual immigration report said that in 2017, as many as 50,802 Indians took citizenship of the United States.</p>.<p class="bodytext">This is four thousand more than 2016's figure of 46,188 Indian naturalizations and eight thousand more than 42,213 Indian citizenship in 2015.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In all, 707,265 foreign nationals took the oath of American citizenship in 2017, as against 753,060 in 2016 and 730,259 in 2015.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mexico with 118,559 citizenships topped the list among all foreign nationals.</p>.<p class="bodytext">India was a distant second, followed by China (37,674); the Philippines (36,828); Dominican Republic (29,734); Cuba (25,961).</p>.<p class="bodytext">Figures indicated that more females (396,234) took American citizenship than male (310,987).</p>.<p class="bodytext">The report indicates that as many as 12,000 newly naturalized American citizens from India settled in California, followed by New Jersey (5,900), and Texas about 3,700.</p>.<p class="bodytext">More than 7,100 naturalized Americans lived in the regions of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.</p>