Legal Immigrants from India on H-1B and F1 visas surpass Mexicans entering the US

By Raif Karerat

Immigrants from India and China, many with student or work visas, have overtaken Mexicans as the largest groups coming into the U.S., according to U.S. Census Bureau.

While Mexicans still dominate the overall composition of immigrants in the U.S., accounting for more than a quarter of the foreign-born people, of the 1.2 million newly arrived immigrants in the U.S. legally and illegally in 2013, China led with 147,000, followed by India with 129,000 and Mexico with 125,000.

“We’re not likely to see Asians overtake Latin Americans anytime soon (in overall immigration population). But we are sort of at the leading edge of this transition where Asians will represent a larger and larger share of the U.S. foreign-born population,” said Marc Rosenblum, deputy director of the U.S. Immigration Policy Program for the Washington-based Migration Policy Institute, according to the Associated Press.

Without revisions in immigration policy, experts say the change to the overall immigrant population will be slow. One reason is that the number of Mexicans who become legal permanent residents is about twice the number of Indian and Chinese people who do, according to Michael Fix, president of the Migration Policy Institute.

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