Citizenship in Neapl

Citizenship by Naturalisation
 Any foreign national of full age and capacity may submit an application to obtain Nepali citizenship if:
 He can speak and write in the national language of Nepali.
 He is engaged in any occupation in Nepal. 
 He has relinquished his citizenship of another state.
 He has resided in Nepal for at least 15 years.
 He is a citizen of a country where there is legal provision or a custom to provide naturalized citizenship to Nepali nationals: and He is of good conduct and character.
 A woman who is married to a Nepali citizen may submit an application to become a citizen of Nepal.
 She shall enclose along with such application evidence of her marriage to a Nepali national, and of having initiated action to relinquish her foreign citizenship. 
Any person who is the son, daughter or descendant of any Nepali national may apply to obtain the citizenship of Nepal if: 
He can speak and write in the national language of Nepal; He has relinquished the citizenship of another state;
 He has been residing in the kingdom of Nepal for the past two years with the intention of residing in Nepal permanently; 
and He is virtuous, of good conduct and character.

 But there is still a lot of dissemination that goes on to acquiring citizenship. Here's is an article that talks about it.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-18232250

Immigrants On The Border

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0omkBADhDlM




This Video I found on the Youtube is short but very interesting and gives the insight on how hard it si to cross the border between Mexico and United states. Some people in hope for a better live in United States and go through all the troubles to get here and hardship to get here. but sometimes they get so disappointed and leave as well. The video shows the geography of USA Mexico border and shows how far it is extended.

Residency in Nicaragua

Since we were talking about Nicaragua and we should be familiar about the immigration rules at other countries as well. here's an article i found that talks about the rules and the difficulty of getting a permanent residence at Nicaragua.

http://www.nicaraguadispatch.com/news/2012/10/how-to-apply-for-residency-in-nicaragua/5804

World war and immigration

As we go through the chapters of the book we see a pattern that during wars and crisis, the immigration would go down drastically. Even though United States was not involved in World War I or World War II well not till the end, why is immigration into United States being affected? Isn't it suppose to increase? Since people at their home country are at risk and they wanna go to a safer place, they could immigrate to America. Well this is just my concern and some one can think other wise. I wanna know if there were strict immigration laws during the time of war so people could not immigrate? I know after the war there were laws put in place and better regulation and quota systems were placed.

My father was a paper son

http://www.aiisf.org/stories-by-author/737-my-father-was-a-paper-son





I found this really interesting immigration story written about Chinese immigrant. The story is told by a son about his father and how he came to United States. He says that his father came as a paper son and tells us that he had fake age, change his last name and had to memorize the layout of village and design of his “paper home”, including such things as what room he slept in and how many steps there were in front of his “paper home”. He memorized details and pictures of his fake brothers and parents. He went through intense interrogation in angle island. The resemblance among him and his paper father and brother was one of the factor that made the US immigration official believe in his case. He could speak no english and worked as a fruit picker somewhere near Sacramento. He later on in his life gave up his false citizenship and became a permanent citizen and later on naturalized and changed his name back to his original name from his paper name.


It is very interesting that he was willing to go thorough all this to get into United states. this makes me think that the situation in China must have been worst. why would anyone wanna go through all this to get here if that wasn't the case.

Polish Immigrants Now

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/world/americas/21iht-poles.1.16331188.html?_r=0



Here's an interesting article that talks about the rate of polish immigration and then back immigration in recent times. Well they don't have very recent datas but the article talks about fairly recent 2006-2007 datas. It says that the polish community in new york is shrinking because of their immigration back to their country. After being admitted to european union in 2004 polish migration has diminished largely which created job opportunities for them back home.there are other factors such as tighter regulations and aging of people that are here. There is a significant decline of polish people in Greenpoint, Brooklyn which was a centre for polish migration. The article gives stories about different people. Its a good read.

Ethnic enclave

Even from the earliest times we see people settling in area where there are people with similar background, like same country, similar language and culture. We read in chapter 6 that ethnic enclaves established throughout the history of America. And even today we can  find these enclaves throughout out own community. Its a funny story that we (me and family) used to live in northern California before and we moved down to south bay because there are more people from Nepal living here although we didn't know any of them anyways. I think having people from the same background and same origin gives a feeling of security, togetherness and community in a land that is not theirs. I do find that here than when i was living in the North but i don't want to be confined in that community. May be this is what everyone feels and they settle where the people from their own country settles and venture out after a generation or when they become successful.

http://www.city-data.com/forum/san-francisco-oakland/1255801-bay-area-ethnic-communities.html

On the other note i found this in the web and i am not sure if this a credible website or not but it gives the population data of most of the ethnic groups from the bay area. It was nice to look at the numbers and probably we can all tell who is the majority and who is the minority groups but still its good source.