New Delhi: Thousands of Indians living in Italy thanked union food processing industries minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal for intervening with the Indian government and ensuring the release of essential papers to them to enable them to get regularized in Italy.
Indians living in Italy are in the process of receiving citizenship following an amnesty scheme announced by the Italian government.
The Indian diaspora during the video conference thanked Harsimrat Kaur Badal for her role in regularizing them after a period of thirteen years. They said that thousands of Indians, and especially Punjabis, would benefit from Badal's intervention.
The Italian government had announced amnesty after thirteen years, most Punjabis living in Italy could not take advantage of it because they did not have the requisite passport. They said that the passport of most youth had been destroyed by agents as they had entered Italy illegally.
They said Harsimrat Badal helped to circumvent this problem by taking up the issue with External Affairs minister Dr S Jaishankar.
After Harsimrat Badal's intervention, the Indian consulate in Italy set up help desks and required papers were given to Punjabis to enable them to get regularized.
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