DAR ES SALAAM, March 31 (Xinhua) -- People from India have topped the list of foreigners who applied for Tanzanian citizenship in the past decade, according to immigration statistics.

    Of the 1,813 foreigners who have applied for Tanzanian citizenship between 1996 and 2005, there were 590 Indian citizens, of whom 482 have been granted citizenship.

    Tanzania's close neighbor Burundi, however, came only second in the number of citizenship applications, with 587 applications handed in the same period and 498 Burundian nationals have been granted citizenship.

    Further down the application list are nationals from neighboring Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

    Nationals from far-away countries like in Europe and Asia other than India were the other foreigners who have also applied for Tanzanian citizenship between 1996 and 2006. Enditem