Trump's order puts children of immigrants in a 'stateless' limbo
children of immigrants who are on work visas in the country. Lawyers and experts told ET that for the children, the order creates a phase of being 'stateless' for a brief period as they may be without authorisation since there is no visa category for children of temporary immigrants.
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«Children born to Indian nationals in the US might inherit their parents' immigration status rather than gaining citizenship, potentially leaving them stateless unless their parents take extra steps to register them under Indian nationality laws. This could create serious legal and humanitarian issues for families already navigating complex immigration processes,» Keshav Singhania of law firm Singhania & Co told ET.
India sends the highest number of international students in the US, at 28% of the total pool. Close to half of all US H-1B work visa applicants (700,000) and selections (219,000) in the last four years are of people of Indian origin, estimates show. The biggest beneficiaries of the H-1B visa programme are, however, American companies such as Google, Amazon, Meta among others who have grown their H1B dependency by 189% over the last eight years.
«The executive order challenges the constitutional right of citizenship by birth which was ratified through the 14th Amendment in 1868,» said Poorvi Chothani, managing
