USA
The Seychelles community in the USA is concentrated in the Sun belt – Florida. In the 1960s, 1970s because of the strategic location of Seychelles, the USA built one of their satellite tracking facilities on Mahe at La Miseair, which was nicknamed "the golf ball" because of its unique dome shape. There were several leading United States Air Force contractors, Philco Ford, Pan Am, Nasa, Loral Corporation and Johnson Instruments, IBM, including base defence, military, intelligence personnel.
They numbered some 250 including Voluntary Corps. The vast majority were bachelors – this resulting in marrying and partnering some of the daughter of the elite Seychellois families, after their term of Service in Seychelles migrated with their families to the USA. After the coup d'état of 5 June 1977, a number of families sought refuge in the USA. It is estimated there are some 1500 Seychellois in the USA.
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