Statement of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile (TPiE) on the occasion of the day-long Hunger Strike by its Members and the public on the first day of the Water-Dragon Tibetan New Year on 22nd February, 2012 at the Theckchen Choling, Main Temple, Dharamsala.
Speaker Mr. Penpa Tsering delivering the Statement of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile during the Solidarity Hunger Strike on the first day of Tibetan Losar at Tsuglhakhang, Dharamshala
Amongst the patriotic Tibetan men and women who have been committing the heroic act of self-immolations in Tibet under the two main slogans demanding “the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Tibet” and “freedom and human rights for the Tibetan people”, Venerable Tapey of Kirti Monastery set the trend on 27th of February, 2009. Since then, between the 16th of March, 2011 and 19th of February, 2012, some 23 Tibetans both lay and ordained, have committed self-immolation in Tibet for the sake of Tibet and its people. Two Tibetans have done the same outside of Tibet totaling 25 so far. Fifteen of them including three nuns have lost their precious lives in the process and we have not been able to ascertain the condition and whereabouts of the rest.
We have also come to know from reliable sources that on the 23rd of January, 2012 which was the occasion of the celebration of the Chinese New Year, Tibetans in Tibet observed it as a day of mourning by holding peaceful demonstrations. But the Chinese police and the militia opened indiscriminate gun-fire on them and 4 Tibetans in Draggo, 2 in Serta and 1 in Zamthang totalling 7 were massacred. We have further come to know that on the 8th of February of this year, the same type of peaceful demonstrations had taken place in other places like Nangchen, Trindu, Zatoe, Golok, Chuchen, Chabcha etc while observing ‘White Wednesday’ which is the favourable prayer day for the long life of His Holiness The Dalai Lama. However, as the Chinese government had sealed of all internet and phone connection in most of the places in Tibet and especially those where demonstrations had taken place, we have not been able to ascertain the scale of oppression and the number of people killed, tortured or arrested. There is in effect, an unapparent military rule in Tibet at present and the Chinese government has declared an open “war” on the Tibetan people as whole.
The Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile has continuously been appealing to the Government of China and the International Community regarding the urgent situation in Tibet through its series of press statements. Recently, a special delegation of the TPiE travelled to New Delhi to brief a number of Embassies of different countries about the fast deteriorating conditions in Tibet. We also wrote an open letter to the Chinese President.
Through this statement, we once again appeal to the Government of China and the International Community as follows:
Appeal to the Chinese leaders:
1. Withdraw the large reinforcement of military to reduce tension immediately and take measures to give due consideration to the aspirations of the Tibetan people.
2. Allow independent, non-partisan fact finding delegations to ascertain the ground realities. If you have issues with that, allow a Tibetan fact finding delegation to visit Tibet.
3. Stop the policies and programs aimed at destroying the identity of the Tibetan people. Provide religious freedom and undertake reconciliation measures to assuage the hurt sentiments of the Tibetan people.
4. Stop sedentarization of Tibetan nomads and include Tibetan participation in environmental stewardship by using their centuries old wisdom of having lived on the Tibetan Plateau.
5. All developmental activities in Tibet must give due consideration to Tibet’s fragile environment and should accrue due benefit to the native Tibetans.
6. Release all political prisoners including Panchen Rinpoche Gedun Choekyi Nyima, just as Burma did so to create more trust between the people and the government.
7. Resume dialogue with the Tibetans with the commitment and conviction to seek a lasting solution to the Issue of Tibet, and peace and stability in the whole geo- strategic region.
Similarly to the International Community, we call upon the leaders of the free world to not only express your concern but also seek your intervention in de-escalating the prevailing dangerous situation inside Tibet and help find a lasting solution to the Issue of Tibet for a mutually beneficial agreement through dialogue.
We are confident that while engaging constructively with China, you will not refrain from voicing your concern for the values of democracy, equality, justice and basic human rights that you so very much cherish.
Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile
Dharamsala: Dated: February 22, 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Friday, February 17, 2012
shows depth of Tibetan despair
ABA, China — The monk reached into the folds of his red robe, pulled out a small notebook, and gently slipped from its pages a tiny photograph.
The man in the creased picture was a relative. He used to be a fellow monk at the monastery perched in snow-wrapped mountains outside the town of Aba. Then a Chinese security officer killed him, the monk said.
It is a sorrow that cannot be spoken of in public. A local government "working team" visits the monastery often, looking for signs of discontent, according to monks there. Sometimes, they said, when returning to their living quarters from chanting or studying, the monks find a door busted in and possessions scattered after a search.
The monk showed the snapshot as a way of explaining why ethnic Tibetans, mostly current or former Buddhist clergy, are setting themselves on fire in Aba and surrounding regions in an unprecedented show of protest against Chinese rule. Since March 2011, between 20 and 23 have committed self-immolations, according to rights groups. Of those, at least 13 are said to have died.
"China in our eyes is not fair or peaceful," said the monk, a man in his early 40s who, like every ethnic Tibetan interviewed for this story, did so on the condition that he not be named and that certain details be withheld, for fear of getting dragged off by police. "We are suffering a lot in our hearts, and when we can no longer bear it we burn ourselves to death."
The Chinese government and its media have confirmed some of the self-immolations and denied others. The government, though, goes to extensive lengths to prevent outsiders from visiting this area. Police routinely block roads, search vehicles and turn back foreigners, especially journalists.
A McClatchy reporter last week apparently became the first from an American news organization to make it to Aba since the chain of self-immolations began in March. To do so, he hid on the rear floor of a vehicle under two backpacks and a sleeping bag as it passed through multiple checkpoints.
Beijing has long blamed unrest in ethnic Tibetan areas on conspiracies hatched by the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader who fled to India after a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959.
But conversations with ethnic Tibetans here and elsewhere in Sichuan province, where almost all of the self-immolations have occurred, suggest that China's authoritarian policies designed to tamp down disorder are fueling the troubles.
As the nation's vice president and presumptive next leader, Xi Jinping, tours the United States this week amid talk of greater understanding, his government at home continues to flood a wide swath of ethnic Tibetan lands with armed troops.
At the entrance to Aba last week, at least seven police officers manned a checkpoint. When an SUV approached with a Han Chinese man in the front seat, it was allowed to pass without a question — as the McClatchy reporter lay in the back.
Ethnic Tibetans face tougher scrutiny. One Tibetan from a nearby village described the interior of his taxi being almost ripped apart during a search at the entry of Aba, which is known in Tibetan as Ngaba.
On the same day the reporter entered Aba, an 18-year-old woman in a nunnery near the town's outskirts set herself on fire. The ethnic Tibetan nun, Tenzin Choedon, reportedly called out slogans against the government as the flames took her life.
Sections of the town famous for its Tibetan Buddhist monasteries have come to resemble an armed camp. A few blocks from the entrance, paramilitary police stood behind riot gates with shotguns and assault rifles. Three large troop-carrier trucks sat on the side of the road, flanked by more men with guns. Up ahead, traffic wound through further riot gates and troop positions not unlike those used in counterinsurgency efforts.
The security was so dense that it was impossible to speak with clergy or, indeed, anyone in Aba because of the risk of bringing danger to those interviewed. The Internet had been shut off and efforts to send text messages from Aba failed repeatedly.
Police roadblocks and patrols in the region begin just outside the city of Chengdu, hundreds of miles away. Even in that sprawling metropolis, Chengdu's main Tibetan quarter is stacked with police who stand guard outside restaurants and shops that sell incense and religious paraphernalia.
An attempt in November to reach Aba ended with a McClatchy reporter being held and questioned by Chinese police for two hours before he was released and told to return to Beijing.
Aba, in the high mountains and mist, gained international attention as an epicenter of Tibetan turmoil last March when a monk from the Kirti monastery lit himself ablaze. He was reportedly commemorating the third anniversary of 2008 demonstrations and riots across the Tibetan Plateau, including Aba, which ended in bloodshed.
After that self-immolation, some 300 other monks were allegedly hauled away from Kirti in trucks, sparking concern from the United Nations.
Chinese officials point out that they've spent billions of dollars constructing hospitals, roads and schools in Tibet, which is referred to by Beijing as an autonomous region, and nearby areas like those in Sichuan.
Or as a billboard depicting green fields and blue waters outside Maierma Township, approximately 20 miles from Aba, puts it: "Building a civilized, new Aba together."
Many ethnic Tibetans recognize the benefits of the government's projects. But they chafe at the government's restrictions on free expression of their culture and religious practices, and they speak of anguish over being separated from the Dalai Lama.
The lingering threat of police showing up at their doorstep has by all accounts made the situation even more complicated for ethnic Tibetans.
"If you say the government is not treating us well, that's not completely true, they are providing us with good things," said a 26-year-old small-time trader in Hongyuan, which sits 65 miles or more to the east of Aba, depending on which winding road is taken. "But on the other side, the police are behaving badly. We don't know what to say about the situation."
The man, in a brown leather coat and sunglasses pushed up his forehead, thought it over and then said, "You should talk with somebody in Aba."
His younger brother, sitting in the family's living room under a single light bulb, spoke up: "Of course things are not good, they are killing people."
The brothers turned to their father, a man in his late 40s who had a green camouflage jacket slung over his shoulders and a cigarette in hand.
Why were Tibetans self-immolating?
The father first wanted it made clear that he would not "take legal responsibility" for his words, and then said, "The Chinese government issues messages that these things are happening because of foreign plots, but of course the people lighting themselves on fire are local people ..."
The father paused and looked at the small stove in front of him, which was heating the room with burning stacks of yak dung.
The younger brother, in his early 20s and with plans to move to a bigger city, finished the sentence with an assertion that no one contradicted.
"The people lighting themselves on fire do it because they are suffering ... or because one of their family members has been killed by the government and they are now filled with hatred," he said. "They are doing these things because they want to express their pain and their hardship."
The majority of Tibetans approached in the area said they couldn't discuss such issues.
One herder near the town of Chali, about 30 miles east of Aba, gestured for a reporter to follow him to his house. Once inside, the 67-year-old man with tough, thick hands shook his head, saying, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I don't dare talk about this."
Walking back out across a field, the herder in brown corduroy pants and a dark winter jacket had a piece of advice: Listen to what the monks have to say.
The monk with the dead relative had marched in a demonstration against the Chinese government during the tumult of March 2008. When the police later came, the monk said, they surrounded the monastery and threatened to destroy it if those who'd participated in the incident didn't turn themselves in.
Official documents describing his arrest said that he and others had taken part in an action that "disrupted public order" and caused a traffic jam. The monk keeps the papers tucked in a plastic bag even though they're written in Mandarin, a language he doesn't understand well.
The monk said he was held in jail and fed such small amounts of thin porridge that it became difficult to stand up. He was then transferred to a reform-through-labor camp. "They told me that the Dalai Lama group is an obstacle to our road to peace," said the monk, who was reluctant to describe the nearly two-year experience.
His relative never made it back — he died in custody, the result of being beaten in the head and then not receiving medical treatment, according to the monk and others at the monastery.
The monk returned to the area near Aba in 2010. Much was as he left it. Candles made of yak-butter still flicker in the night. Old men patiently twirl prayer wheels. Young monks with freshly shaven heads scamper up and down steep hillsides.
The monk found that one of his framed pictures of the Dalai Lama had survived in a hiding spot. The glass was cracked and missing a piece, but the rainbow-colored frame and the image itself were intact.
With the ongoing government searches and his record of jail time, having the photograph around could be hazardous for the monk.
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/02/14/138867/rare-visit-to-remote-chinese-region.html#storylink=cpy
The man in the creased picture was a relative. He used to be a fellow monk at the monastery perched in snow-wrapped mountains outside the town of Aba. Then a Chinese security officer killed him, the monk said.
It is a sorrow that cannot be spoken of in public. A local government "working team" visits the monastery often, looking for signs of discontent, according to monks there. Sometimes, they said, when returning to their living quarters from chanting or studying, the monks find a door busted in and possessions scattered after a search.
The monk showed the snapshot as a way of explaining why ethnic Tibetans, mostly current or former Buddhist clergy, are setting themselves on fire in Aba and surrounding regions in an unprecedented show of protest against Chinese rule. Since March 2011, between 20 and 23 have committed self-immolations, according to rights groups. Of those, at least 13 are said to have died.
"China in our eyes is not fair or peaceful," said the monk, a man in his early 40s who, like every ethnic Tibetan interviewed for this story, did so on the condition that he not be named and that certain details be withheld, for fear of getting dragged off by police. "We are suffering a lot in our hearts, and when we can no longer bear it we burn ourselves to death."
The Chinese government and its media have confirmed some of the self-immolations and denied others. The government, though, goes to extensive lengths to prevent outsiders from visiting this area. Police routinely block roads, search vehicles and turn back foreigners, especially journalists.
A McClatchy reporter last week apparently became the first from an American news organization to make it to Aba since the chain of self-immolations began in March. To do so, he hid on the rear floor of a vehicle under two backpacks and a sleeping bag as it passed through multiple checkpoints.
Beijing has long blamed unrest in ethnic Tibetan areas on conspiracies hatched by the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader who fled to India after a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959.
But conversations with ethnic Tibetans here and elsewhere in Sichuan province, where almost all of the self-immolations have occurred, suggest that China's authoritarian policies designed to tamp down disorder are fueling the troubles.
As the nation's vice president and presumptive next leader, Xi Jinping, tours the United States this week amid talk of greater understanding, his government at home continues to flood a wide swath of ethnic Tibetan lands with armed troops.
At the entrance to Aba last week, at least seven police officers manned a checkpoint. When an SUV approached with a Han Chinese man in the front seat, it was allowed to pass without a question — as the McClatchy reporter lay in the back.
Ethnic Tibetans face tougher scrutiny. One Tibetan from a nearby village described the interior of his taxi being almost ripped apart during a search at the entry of Aba, which is known in Tibetan as Ngaba.
On the same day the reporter entered Aba, an 18-year-old woman in a nunnery near the town's outskirts set herself on fire. The ethnic Tibetan nun, Tenzin Choedon, reportedly called out slogans against the government as the flames took her life.
Sections of the town famous for its Tibetan Buddhist monasteries have come to resemble an armed camp. A few blocks from the entrance, paramilitary police stood behind riot gates with shotguns and assault rifles. Three large troop-carrier trucks sat on the side of the road, flanked by more men with guns. Up ahead, traffic wound through further riot gates and troop positions not unlike those used in counterinsurgency efforts.
The security was so dense that it was impossible to speak with clergy or, indeed, anyone in Aba because of the risk of bringing danger to those interviewed. The Internet had been shut off and efforts to send text messages from Aba failed repeatedly.
Police roadblocks and patrols in the region begin just outside the city of Chengdu, hundreds of miles away. Even in that sprawling metropolis, Chengdu's main Tibetan quarter is stacked with police who stand guard outside restaurants and shops that sell incense and religious paraphernalia.
An attempt in November to reach Aba ended with a McClatchy reporter being held and questioned by Chinese police for two hours before he was released and told to return to Beijing.
Aba, in the high mountains and mist, gained international attention as an epicenter of Tibetan turmoil last March when a monk from the Kirti monastery lit himself ablaze. He was reportedly commemorating the third anniversary of 2008 demonstrations and riots across the Tibetan Plateau, including Aba, which ended in bloodshed.
After that self-immolation, some 300 other monks were allegedly hauled away from Kirti in trucks, sparking concern from the United Nations.
Chinese officials point out that they've spent billions of dollars constructing hospitals, roads and schools in Tibet, which is referred to by Beijing as an autonomous region, and nearby areas like those in Sichuan.
Or as a billboard depicting green fields and blue waters outside Maierma Township, approximately 20 miles from Aba, puts it: "Building a civilized, new Aba together."
Many ethnic Tibetans recognize the benefits of the government's projects. But they chafe at the government's restrictions on free expression of their culture and religious practices, and they speak of anguish over being separated from the Dalai Lama.
The lingering threat of police showing up at their doorstep has by all accounts made the situation even more complicated for ethnic Tibetans.
"If you say the government is not treating us well, that's not completely true, they are providing us with good things," said a 26-year-old small-time trader in Hongyuan, which sits 65 miles or more to the east of Aba, depending on which winding road is taken. "But on the other side, the police are behaving badly. We don't know what to say about the situation."
The man, in a brown leather coat and sunglasses pushed up his forehead, thought it over and then said, "You should talk with somebody in Aba."
His younger brother, sitting in the family's living room under a single light bulb, spoke up: "Of course things are not good, they are killing people."
The brothers turned to their father, a man in his late 40s who had a green camouflage jacket slung over his shoulders and a cigarette in hand.
Why were Tibetans self-immolating?
The father first wanted it made clear that he would not "take legal responsibility" for his words, and then said, "The Chinese government issues messages that these things are happening because of foreign plots, but of course the people lighting themselves on fire are local people ..."
The father paused and looked at the small stove in front of him, which was heating the room with burning stacks of yak dung.
The younger brother, in his early 20s and with plans to move to a bigger city, finished the sentence with an assertion that no one contradicted.
"The people lighting themselves on fire do it because they are suffering ... or because one of their family members has been killed by the government and they are now filled with hatred," he said. "They are doing these things because they want to express their pain and their hardship."
The majority of Tibetans approached in the area said they couldn't discuss such issues.
One herder near the town of Chali, about 30 miles east of Aba, gestured for a reporter to follow him to his house. Once inside, the 67-year-old man with tough, thick hands shook his head, saying, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I don't dare talk about this."
Walking back out across a field, the herder in brown corduroy pants and a dark winter jacket had a piece of advice: Listen to what the monks have to say.
The monk with the dead relative had marched in a demonstration against the Chinese government during the tumult of March 2008. When the police later came, the monk said, they surrounded the monastery and threatened to destroy it if those who'd participated in the incident didn't turn themselves in.
Official documents describing his arrest said that he and others had taken part in an action that "disrupted public order" and caused a traffic jam. The monk keeps the papers tucked in a plastic bag even though they're written in Mandarin, a language he doesn't understand well.
The monk said he was held in jail and fed such small amounts of thin porridge that it became difficult to stand up. He was then transferred to a reform-through-labor camp. "They told me that the Dalai Lama group is an obstacle to our road to peace," said the monk, who was reluctant to describe the nearly two-year experience.
His relative never made it back — he died in custody, the result of being beaten in the head and then not receiving medical treatment, according to the monk and others at the monastery.
The monk returned to the area near Aba in 2010. Much was as he left it. Candles made of yak-butter still flicker in the night. Old men patiently twirl prayer wheels. Young monks with freshly shaven heads scamper up and down steep hillsides.
The monk found that one of his framed pictures of the Dalai Lama had survived in a hiding spot. The glass was cracked and missing a piece, but the rainbow-colored frame and the image itself were intact.
With the ongoing government searches and his record of jail time, having the photograph around could be hazardous for the monk.
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/02/14/138867/rare-visit-to-remote-chinese-region.html#storylink=cpy
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Fresh protests in Tibet, Thousands demand the Dalai Lama’s return in Yushul
DHARAMSHALA, February 9: Thousands of Tibetans in the Yushul area of eastern Tibet led a peaceful protest, carrying banners demanding the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama from exile and respect for Tibetan lives yesterday. The protest coincided with the call for a global vigil on February 8 by the exile Tibetan leadership in solidarity with Tibetans inside Tibet.
In information received by Phayul, around 400 monks from the Dzil Kar monastery in Tridu began a protest march to Dza Toe town at 10 am local time. The monks were confronted by a large number of armed Chinese security personnel at a bridge leading to the town and were told that the march will not be allowed any further.
“As the confrontation grew, over a thousand Tibetans from the nearby areas joined the monks in the protest,” exile sources with links in the region told Phayul.
The monks unfurled banners, written in blue and red ink, symbolic of the two protector deities of Tibet, calling for the Dalai Lama’s return, release of Tibetan political prisoners including the XIth Panchen Lama and respect for Tibetan lives.
“The gathered Tibetans raised slogans and led their solidarity protest for nearly three hours,” the exile source confirmed.
However, no arrests were made during the protest but a large security build up has been reported in the region.
Yesterday’s protest in Yushul comes just a day after a top government official in Beijing said that China will “resolutely crack down” on any attempt to “incite violence or to disrupt national unity and integrity".
In the past few weeks, Chinese security personnel in the adjoining regions of Drango and Serthar had opened indiscriminate fire on unarmed protesters, killing and injuring a large number of Tibetans.
21 Tibetans have set their bodies on fire demanding the return of exiled Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama and protesting China’s continued occupation of Tibet. The latest self-immolation took place in the besieged Ngaba town yesterday.
Many parts of Tibet remain cut off from outside world with a prevailing situation of undeclared martial law following the fiery wave of self-immolations and mass protests.
In information received by Phayul, around 400 monks from the Dzil Kar monastery in Tridu began a protest march to Dza Toe town at 10 am local time. The monks were confronted by a large number of armed Chinese security personnel at a bridge leading to the town and were told that the march will not be allowed any further.
“As the confrontation grew, over a thousand Tibetans from the nearby areas joined the monks in the protest,” exile sources with links in the region told Phayul.
The monks unfurled banners, written in blue and red ink, symbolic of the two protector deities of Tibet, calling for the Dalai Lama’s return, release of Tibetan political prisoners including the XIth Panchen Lama and respect for Tibetan lives.
“The gathered Tibetans raised slogans and led their solidarity protest for nearly three hours,” the exile source confirmed.
However, no arrests were made during the protest but a large security build up has been reported in the region.
Yesterday’s protest in Yushul comes just a day after a top government official in Beijing said that China will “resolutely crack down” on any attempt to “incite violence or to disrupt national unity and integrity".
In the past few weeks, Chinese security personnel in the adjoining regions of Drango and Serthar had opened indiscriminate fire on unarmed protesters, killing and injuring a large number of Tibetans.
21 Tibetans have set their bodies on fire demanding the return of exiled Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama and protesting China’s continued occupation of Tibet. The latest self-immolation took place in the besieged Ngaba town yesterday.
Many parts of Tibet remain cut off from outside world with a prevailing situation of undeclared martial law following the fiery wave of self-immolations and mass protests.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Attention ! Choephelling Settlement-Fees for application and processing :
S.No Items Fees in $$$ Fees in Rs.(C$1:Re50)
1Immigration application per adult $550 Rs.27500
2Immigration application per dependent child $150 Rs.7500
3Right of Permanent Residence fee per adult
(dependent children exempted $490 Rs.24500
4Medical Exam per adult $54 Rs.2700
5.Medical Exam per dependent Child $ 24 Rs.1200
6.Internal Travel per person $250 Rs.12500
7International travel (air ticket) per person (Ranges from $1182.47-$2000) $2000 Rs.58123.50 to Rs. 100,000
8.Expense to obtain IC/travel document Rs. 400 to Rs.800 ? pls confirm with HHDL office in N delhi
9.Total projected expense per person $3344 Rs.167200
10.Projected Total Expense per family of Four $11536 Rs. 576800
Above processing fees information are adapted from Canadian Government website: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/applications/tibetan.asp
Please considered this projected expenses as investments that will bring definite return for the individual family and for the whole community for generation to come.
** * Please keep in mind that vulture are on the prowl to looks for innocent victim. Our community’s young and educated member are responsible to safe guard each and every one of community member from this prowler****
***And we have to become like a hawk watching and looking to keep out the vultures***.
In terms of Air Ticket and Airlines:
1.Jets Airways, have services from Delhi to Toronto with stop over at Brussels. Fare is Cheap and services reasonable. Air fare cost ( $1182.47 - $1400 with seasonal adjustment)
2.Air Canada expensive, don’t worry you can show how much you love and thankful to Canada later on
3.British Airways and Cathypacific are expensive.
4.Never book with Aerofloat /Russian airlines – long detours, delay and service not so good. Avoid it.
Expenses once you and your family reach Canada
s.n. Expense Cdn$$
1 Rent (Bachelor -1 bedroom) $ 580 - $ 890 Your sponsor can help you with this or You can split with your room mates
2 Water and Electricity every 2month $ 80 Sponsor can help or split with your roommate
3. Monthly Bus Ticket for going to work $ 127 You can decide whether to buy a monthly pass or buy token everyday. Or move closer to work and walk to the work
4. Telephone $25 to $ 45 You can share
5. Grocery and personal hygiene weekly for one person $30 Cook every meal at home and pack your lunch for work
6. Laundry every week $5 to $ 6 You can hand wash it and dry it in dryer to safe money
7. Things to avoid while in Canada to stay healthy Soft drink i.e. coco cola and other drinks Any sort of chips, fries and Mcdonald and fast foods
8. Things to do to stay fits Daily morning or evening walk
9. Things to remember for community back home You had been help by other. Its your turn to help other who in need in our settlement or inside Pemako region of Tibet Do not let down HHDL
10. What is expected from you all Be a good Citizen Good Pemakopa Avail your rights Fulfill your duty
*** save money as much as possible and try not to rely too much on sponsor to provide everything, if our people want to make the program successful our own people who are coming here have to step up***
Applying as a Displaced Tibetan Living in the State of Arunachal Pradesh in India
www.cic.gc.ca
Applying as a Displaced Tibetan Living in the State of Arunachal Pradesh in India
1Immigration application per adult $550 Rs.27500
2Immigration application per dependent child $150 Rs.7500
3Right of Permanent Residence fee per adult
(dependent children exempted $490 Rs.24500
4Medical Exam per adult $54 Rs.2700
5.Medical Exam per dependent Child $ 24 Rs.1200
6.Internal Travel per person $250 Rs.12500
7International travel (air ticket) per person (Ranges from $1182.47-$2000) $2000 Rs.58123.50 to Rs. 100,000
8.Expense to obtain IC/travel document Rs. 400 to Rs.800 ? pls confirm with HHDL office in N delhi
9.Total projected expense per person $3344 Rs.167200
10.Projected Total Expense per family of Four $11536 Rs. 576800
Above processing fees information are adapted from Canadian Government website: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/applications/tibetan.asp
Please considered this projected expenses as investments that will bring definite return for the individual family and for the whole community for generation to come.
** * Please keep in mind that vulture are on the prowl to looks for innocent victim. Our community’s young and educated member are responsible to safe guard each and every one of community member from this prowler****
***And we have to become like a hawk watching and looking to keep out the vultures***.
In terms of Air Ticket and Airlines:
1.Jets Airways, have services from Delhi to Toronto with stop over at Brussels. Fare is Cheap and services reasonable. Air fare cost ( $1182.47 - $1400 with seasonal adjustment)
2.Air Canada expensive, don’t worry you can show how much you love and thankful to Canada later on
3.British Airways and Cathypacific are expensive.
4.Never book with Aerofloat /Russian airlines – long detours, delay and service not so good. Avoid it.
Expenses once you and your family reach Canada
s.n. Expense Cdn$$
1 Rent (Bachelor -1 bedroom) $ 580 - $ 890 Your sponsor can help you with this or You can split with your room mates
2 Water and Electricity every 2month $ 80 Sponsor can help or split with your roommate
3. Monthly Bus Ticket for going to work $ 127 You can decide whether to buy a monthly pass or buy token everyday. Or move closer to work and walk to the work
4. Telephone $25 to $ 45 You can share
5. Grocery and personal hygiene weekly for one person $30 Cook every meal at home and pack your lunch for work
6. Laundry every week $5 to $ 6 You can hand wash it and dry it in dryer to safe money
7. Things to avoid while in Canada to stay healthy Soft drink i.e. coco cola and other drinks Any sort of chips, fries and Mcdonald and fast foods
8. Things to do to stay fits Daily morning or evening walk
9. Things to remember for community back home You had been help by other. Its your turn to help other who in need in our settlement or inside Pemako region of Tibet Do not let down HHDL
10. What is expected from you all Be a good Citizen Good Pemakopa Avail your rights Fulfill your duty
*** save money as much as possible and try not to rely too much on sponsor to provide everything, if our people want to make the program successful our own people who are coming here have to step up***
Applying as a Displaced Tibetan Living in the State of Arunachal Pradesh in India
www.cic.gc.ca
Applying as a Displaced Tibetan Living in the State of Arunachal Pradesh in India
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