People sometime say history repeats itself. Some believe in this theory, some don’t.
Without getting in that debate, if you notice emigration of people from India to US. You surely will see a distinct pattern. First it was Punjabis and Guajaratis. They came to US in huge numbers and started business, created a vibrant community and blended into the melting pot of US culture.
Software boom and other factors impacted emigration of Guajaratis and Punjabis. People from Andhra took the advantage of the software boom and started to emigrate to US in huge numbers.
Y2K was the buzz word, many Telugu folks come to US as software engineers and continued emigrate in spite of 2 recessions in between. People from all walks of life emigrated. Along with the real candidates others such as Agriculture workers, laborers, Teachers, doctors and many others came to US by producing documents as Software engineer.
US Consulate also turned a blind eye, they were not doing any due diligence to verify the authenticity of the provided documents. Sporadically they checked few people and punished them, but most of them had no problems.
Things started to change by end of year 2015, Many Andhra students were sent back from US ports. If this escalates, then all other Visa categories will also have impact and fewer and fewer people from Andhra would emigrate thus putting a full stop on mass immigration.
On the plus side if you see, Andhra Pradesh state in India has grown significantly over a period of time with good infrastructure, education and governance. They also divided their state into two, so that people from each region could get best governance and accountability from the politicians. I think, US officials might be thinking they have done good job in modernizing the Andhra state, now its time for them to look into other states of India.
I am not sure which state in India would capture this Void and gain momentum. I am guessing it could be people from Bihar/Orissa/Jharkhand or even from Uttar Pradesh. On larger scale, I feel, US officials would like to give advantage to poorer sections of societies of India. Bihar/Jharkhand are doing really good in terms of GDP and governance. And they are hard working people with good intelligence too.
On top of it they are very good in corruption and also can create fake documents way better than Andhra guys. But it all depends upon how the state ministers respond to the US officials and multinational companies.
If every thing falls into place then next decade will be people from Bihar/Orissa/Jharkhand will dominate US immigration and Bhojpuri will be lingua franca in corridor communication of US companies and other places.
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