Dear members of the Nepali communities in Canada,

Warm Greetings !

Since its inception, Non-Resident Nepali Association (NRNA) has been raising the issue of dual citizenship with the Government of Nepal (GoN). NRNA has made a number of strategic demands along the way to secure NRN rights. A few weeks ago, GoN released a process by which NRNs could obtain NRN cards through Nepalese diplomatic missions. Along with the release of this news, the subject of dual citizenship has become a hot topic of our representation in almost every interaction program that the Nepali Diaspora holds with the political leaders and government officials of Nepal.

The Government of Nepal has not decided for issuance of dual citizenship to NRNs, even though leaders of almost all major political parties have time and again given assurance for it. We are aware that NRNs are watching this development carefully and various views have emerged. At the same time, there also have been progresses in terms of ongoing parliamentary committee discussions, making of some regulations and bills, and some steps towards reorganization of NRN rights. Please kindly read for yourself what has been concretely achieved to this date from the website of Ministry of Foreign Affairs at http://www.mofa.gov.np/nrn.php. Reading this information critically and providing the National Coordination Council of NRN-Canada with your valued inputs and feedback, you could help us formulate a collective position of NRNs across Canada.

Therefore, I am urging all NRNs living in Canada to “Leave a comment“. Each comment written with keen interest and creative manner contributing towards building our collective position statement will be thankfully received and seriously considered in this process.

A team of NRN-Canada NCC members coordinated by Mr. Manik Duggar has been formed to work on a draft position paper based on your feedback, and it will be shared with you as soon as it is ready. While doing so, we will request you to send your comments and suggestions back to us so that all opinions could be known and the position paper could be finalized with maximum inputs. NRN-Canada position paper will then be presented to NRNA-International Coordination Committee (ICC) via its Task Force on Dual Citizenship, which will in turn consider our position while putting forward dual citizenship demand to the GoN.

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We anticipate your maximum cooperation and due diligence in this regard.

Sincerely,

Naba Raj Gurung
President
NRN-Canada National Coordination Council