WASHINGTON, June 10 (PTI) - The US is home to about 1.6 million Indian origin people, making them the third-largest immigrant group in the country after Mexicans and Filipino, a Washington-based think tank has said.
Between 2007 and 2008, the number of Indian immigrants surpassed the number of Chinese and Hong Kong-born immigrants for the first time since at least 1960, said the Migration Policy Institute in its latest report.
Indian immigration to the US, a fairly recent phenomenon, grew rapidly during the 1990s and 2000s.
In addition, people with Indian ancestry have also immigrated to the US from the Caribbeans, East Africa, Canada, and the United Kingdom, said the report authored by Aaron Terrazas and Cristina Batog.
The report said Indians are heavily concentrated in California and New Jersey.