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They would become citizens within months and could begin the process of sponsoring their spouses and parents for permanent residence straightaway.
This may be of interest to some of the many thousands of technology workers on H or L visas that don't have a path to stay in the United States, but would like to.
A majority of these visa holders are from India and several Indian languages are on the list.
Speakers of the following languages are eligible for the program:
Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cebuano, Cambodian-Khmer, Chinese, Czech, French (with citizenship from an African Country), Georgian, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hindi, Hungarian, Igbo, Indonesian, Kashmiri, Korean, Kurdish, Lao, Malay, Malayalam, Moro (Tausug/Maranao/Maguindanao), Nepalese, Pashto, Persian Dari, Persian Farsi, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Sindhi, Serbo-Croatian, Singhalese, Somali, Swahili, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Urdu (with citizenship from Pakistan or Afghanistan), Uzbek, Yoruba
Link to Department of Defense fact sheet: http://www.defense.gov/news/mavni-fact-sheet.pdf
Link to Army program, which accepted over 1000: http://www.goarmy.com/benefits/additional-incentives/mavni.html
Link to Air Force Special Forces program, which only accepted 2 recently: http://www.afsoc.af.mil/Units/AirForceSpecialOperationsAirWarfareCenter/USAFSOS/MAVNI.aspx