Nepal Emigration and Immigration
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Online Sources
- 1890-1960 Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960 at FindMyPast; index & images ($)
British Overseas Subjects
- British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms, Nepal, index and images, ($)
- British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages, Nepal, index and images, ($)
- British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials, Nepal, index and images, ($)
Finding the Town of Origin in Nepal
If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in Nepal, see Nepal Finding Town of Origin for additional research strategies.
Nepal Emigration and Immigration
"Emigration" means moving out of a country. "Immigration" means moving into a country.
Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in the country. These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants’ names, ages, occupations, destinations, and places of origin or birthplaces. Sometimes they also show family groups.
Immigration into Nepal
- By the 18th century, the Gorkha Kingdom achieved the unification of Nepal. The Shah dynasty established the Kingdom of Nepal and later formed an alliance with the British Empire, under its Rana dynasty of premiers. The country was never colonized but served as a buffer state between Imperial China and British India.
- According to the 2001 census, there were 116,571 foreign born citizens in Nepal; 90% of them were of Indian origin followed by Bhutan, Pakistan and China.This number does not include the refugees from Bhutan and Tibet.[1]
Emigration From Nepal
KNOMAD Statistics: Emigrants :1,986,200. Top destination countries: India, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, Malaysia, Kuwait, the United Kingdom, Bangladesh, Australia [2]
Records of Nepal Emigrants in Their Destination Nations
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One option is to look for records about the ancestor in the country of destination, the country they immigrated into. See links to immigration records for major destination countries below. |
References
- ↑ "Demographics of Nepal", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Nepal#Ethnic_and_regional_equity, accessed 31 July 2021.
- ↑ "Nepal", at KNOMAD, the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development, https://www.knomad.org/data/migration/emigration?page=16, accessed 31 July 2021.