2022 will witness an enormous surge within the variety of folks renouncing the citizenship of India, as over 1.83 lakh folks have already executed so until October 31, up from about 1.29 lakh in 2014, when the Narendra Modi authorities took over in 2014 with the promise of ‘Aachhe Din’.

The exodus in 2022 is more likely to take the overall variety of folks giving up the citizenship of India prior to now 9 years near 12.50 lakh. This yr has already seen extra folks renouncing the citizenship of India than in every of the previous 11 years.

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has this week knowledgeable the Lok Sabha that 1,83,741 folks renounced the citizenship of India until October 31.

The numbers of individuals, who gave up the citizenship of India in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, have been 1,29,328; 1,31,489; 1,41,603; 1,33,049; 1,34,561, 1,44,017, 85,256 and 1,63,370 respectively, Minister of State for External Affairs, V Muraleedharan knowledgeable the decrease home of Parliament in a written reply to a query from Abdul Khaleque of the Congress on Friday.

While 1,22,819 folks renounced their citizenship in 2011, the quantity got here all the way down to 1,20,923 in 2012, solely to go as much as 1,31,405 in 2013.

The pattern has been typically upward prior to now years besides in 2016 and 2017 in addition to in 2020 – the yr the Covid-19 pandemic swept the world and shutdowns and journey restrictions have been imposed to include the unfold of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

The Citizenship Act of India doesn’t permit anybody to carry twin citizenship. As per the Passport Act, it’s necessary for all folks having passports issued by the Government of India to give up their final passports to any of New Delhi’s consular missions in overseas capitals or to the Regional Passport Offices of the MEA throughout the nation instantly after acquisition of overseas nationality. It is an offence underneath the Citizenship Act and the Passports Act for overseas nationals to carry Indian passports.

The authorities points a certificates confirming renunciation of citizenship by a person.

Most Indians quit their citizenship to acquire the nationality of the United States. The authorities had knowledgeable the Lok Sabha earlier this yr that 78,284 folks had given up the citizenship of India after buying the nationality of the United States in 2021, up from 30,828 in 2020. 2019 had seen 61,683 folks accepting the US nationality and renouncing the citizenship of India, the Ministry of Home Affairs had knowledgeable the decrease home of Parliament on July 19.

Canada granted citizenship to 25,381, 17,093 and 21,597 Indians in 2019, 2020 and 2021 respectively. They all had to surrender the citizenship of India. The United Kingdom comes third within the tally after the US and Canada by way of granting citizenship to Indians. The British authorities granted the nationality standing to 14,309, 6,489 and 14,637 Indians in 2019, 2020 and 2021 respectively. They all ultimately renounced the citizenship of India.