Fact Sheets - Released in 2009
India is one of the major sending countries of migrant laborers in Asia. It is estimated that around 15 million Indians live abroad, and hundreds of thousands migrate each year for work. There are two different classes of migrant workers: the highly technically skilled, and the unskilled. The Indian professionals and technical workers tend to migrate permanently to the USA, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia. In 2001, 23,000 Indians received US immigration visas, and 17,000 received Canadian immigration visas.
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- HIV and AIDS Data Hub for Asia Pacific