London: More than 450 Indians have confirmed their British citizenship under the govt’s ‘Windrush Scheme’ set up in the wake of an immigration scandal last year. The ‘Windrush Generation’ refers to citizens of former British colonies who arrived in the UK before 1973, when the rights of such Commonwealth citizens to live and work in Britain were substantially curtailed. While a large proportion of them were of Jamaican/Caribbean descent, they also included Indians and other South Asians, said Rob McNeil, Deputy Director of the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford.
Indians emerged as the largest group affected, after Caribbean nationals, in the scandal involving Commonwealth nationals wrongly denied their citizenship rights in Britain. In an update to Parliament, Home Secretary Sajid Javid said at least 455 Indians were able to confirm their nationality as British under the scheme.
