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Mar 6, 2024 · Ajit Singh Randhawa and Raj Kaur Randhawa left India for Canada and then moved to South Carolina, where they became U.S. citizens and raised Nikki Haley. Learn about their backgrounds, education, arranged marriage and how they influenced Haley's views on immigration.
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Jan 18, 2016 · Ajit Singh Randhawa is a Sikh who immigrated to Canada and then to the US from India. He is the father of South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who is the first Indian American governor in US history.
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Jan 12, 2024 · Haley’s father Ajit Randhawa became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1978 and her mother Raj Randhawa became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2003, according to Haley's office. Haley was born...
Jan 2, 2024 · Haley’s office told South Carolina newspaper The State in 2015, when she was governor, that her father, Ajit Randhawa, became a U.S. citizen in 1978 — six years after Haley’s birth — while her mother, Raj Randhawa, was naturalized in 2003.
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Haley's parents, Ajit Singh Randhawa and Raj Kaur Randhawa, are Indian immigrants from Punjab who both worked as teachers and owned a clothing boutique.
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Her mother, Raj Kaur Randhawa, faced limitations in India despite her education, while her father, Ajit Singh Randhawa, pursued higher education in Canada and the US.
Her father, Ajit Singh Randhawa, was a professor at Punjab Agricultural University, and her mother, Raj Kaur Randhawa, received her law degree from the University of Delhi. Her parents emigrated from India to Canada in 1964 after Ajit received a scholarship offer from the University of British Columbia.
