Either you don’t get about much or have low observation skills.
It is not about giving citizenship now. They have been here for generations.
Guess you can’t remember when most of Thai bank branches were guarded by Indians sleeping across their doorstep with shotguns.
I have seen them in all those places.
I got an email like that. Then I got a call from US Consulate in Chiang Mai saying they had my new pp and asking if I wanted to pick it up or have them mail it to me.
So you might ask the Consulate