Community rallies to save 'model citizens' from deportation


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For seven years, Jangchu and Tshering have been working hard to look after their family in Australia. Their qualifications as nurses aren’t recognised, but they’re working multiple jobs and are “model citizens” and good parents. But now, because their son Kinley is deaf, the whole family is facing being sent back to Bhutan.


More than 6000 people have signed a petition appealing to Immigration Minister David Coleman not to deport the Queanbeyan family.


Jangchu Pelden, Tshering, Tenzin Jungney, and Kinley Wangchuck are being denied permanent residency due to Kinley's hearing issues.

Jangchu Pelden, Tshering, Tenzin Jungney, and Kinley Wangchuck are being denied permanent residency due to Kinley’s hearing issues.Credit:Dion Georgopoulos


Retired Melbourne teacher of the deaf, David Randall, started the change.org petition in support of his former student Kinley Wangyel Wangchuck, now 18, and his family.  The petition to Mr Coleman asks him to use his discretionary powers to allow Kinley and his family to remain in Australia permanently.


The family moved Bhutan to Melbourne in 2012 when Kinley’s mother Jangchu received a scholarship to study childcare.


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