For anyone leaving home for greener pastures, it is never an easy decision. Imagine leaving one's country, that too, for good. But that is exactly what close to a million Indians have done in the last five years. Since 2020, over nine lakh Indians have renounced their citizenship. A pattern has emerged since 2022, with over two lakh individuals giving up their Indian passport every year.
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This data was presented to Parliament during the ongoing Winter Session. It showed that 2.06 million (over 20 lakh) Indians gave up their citizenship between 2011 and 2024. Nearly half of this happened in the last five years, during and after the Covid-19 pandemic.
For almost a decade within these 14 years, annual figures stayed within a narrow bracket of
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