Foreign spouses struggle to navigate Nepali immigration laws

A group of Nepalis seeks to change the immigration laws in favour of their spouses.

The first thing Nirmala Shakya’s and Jeroen Van den Bergh’s son did after he was born—besides drinking, sleeping and pooping—was break Nepali immigration law. “The fine we had to pay wasn’t a lot—that is not the problem,” Shakya says. “It is more the ridiculousness of it that gets to me.”