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For the fifth consecutive year, Indian migrants have emerged as the largest cohort of migrants to be conferred Australian citizenship.
Preliminary data from the Department of Home Affairs shows that out of 138,646 migrants who became Australian citizens between 1 July 2020 and 30 June, 24,706 are of Indian origin, followed by 17,316 of British origin.
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India and the UK were followed by the Philippines (8,659), China (excluding migrants from Hong Kong and Macau) (7,302), New Zealand (5,612), Pakistan (5,415), Vietnam (4,613), South Africa (3,838), Iraq (3,792) and Afghanistan (3,656) in the last financial year.
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