Lao Deputy FM Hiem Phommachanh and Lao Ambassador to the US talked to members of the Lao-American community in Washington D.C. about Laos' policy to welcome overseas Laotians back, 26 July 2009
Lao officials reaffirm their government’s policy to welcome and solicit overseas Laotians to go back and help develop the country, adding that they are also ready to grant Lao citizenship to those who renounce their current nationality.
During an interview with VOA Bangkok stringer, Laos’ Ambassador to Thailand Ouane Phommachack confirmed that his government has had a policy to welcome Laotians from overseas to help develop the country for over 30 years, but it had not been publicly acknowledged until now.
Neverthless, the pursuance of this policy continually has resulted in the flow of overseas Laotians returning to Laos for different purposes, including going back to visit relatives, to invest, and to help the Lao government in various capacities as well as to live there permanently. However, those who wish to regain their Lao nationality, they must renounce their current citizenship, because Lao laws stipulate that all Lao nationals cannot hold dual nationality.
According to Ambassador Phommachack, regardless of his/her nationality and objectives, every overseas Laotian who wishes to return to Laos will receive support from his government as long as his/her activities in Laos conform with Laos’ laws and regulations.
At the seventh session of the Lao National Assembly's Sixth Legislature last month, a new draft law proposed by the Lao Front for National Construction was adopted to encourage overseas Laotians who want to return home to take part in the national development.
The enactment of this legislation, aimed at galvanizing unity and reconciliation among Lao people from all walks of life, both in and out of the country, and in particular to mobilize contributions of overseas Laotians to the national building and development, is necessary to respond to the rapidly-changing global environment.
Upon officially taking effect, the new law would authorize the Lao Front for National Construction to take a key role in considering granting nationality to The First Congress of Overseas Vietnamese was held recently in Vientianeoverseas Laotians who want to return home permanently.
Vientiane's latest attempt to woo overseas Laotians back home follows a successful model employed by its Vietnamese ally in encouraging overseas Vietnamese or Vietnamese diasporas to go back and help contribute to the national development.
Songrit Pongern reported in Lao from Bangkok on August 26, 2009. (English translation by Buasawan Simmala.)
How much Laos government is willing to pay for her salary(google.com/search under Keo Bradley. She works for Workman junior high school in Arlington,Texas)?
Who say Laos is outlaw. Please carefully with this word. TYiou never come to Laos and don't know any thing about real sistuation. now our goverment have open the country and welcome for all oversea lao come back and help to gether for better develop our country. If you don't know please do not say some thing bad to out country!!!
First they need money from us and they need brain from young guy with education to run the country they can not afford to send student to another country for learning it cost a lot of money that they they are here to talk to us , don`t blive them if you go so stupid
First they need money from us and they need brain from young guy with education to run the country they can not afford to send student to another country for learning it cost a lot of money that they they are here to talk to us , don`t blive them if you go so stupid
you much be blind one of them is me who study aboard that gov pay for it. you don't know , just don't pretend to know. like khon ta bord ngom xang. ngom tuik hu xang va bai pud,
how much money do you have? don't try to hard to discredit lao gov , is not going to work.
YOU NOT WANT TO COME, NO ONE WILL FORCE YOU. BUT PLEASE, STOP BARKING.
Who say Laos is outlaw. Please carefully with this word. TYiou never come to Laos and don't know any thing about real sistuation. now our goverment have open the country and welcome for all oversea lao come back and help to gether for better develop our country. If you don't know please do not say some thing bad to out country!!!
I will to go back to laos and stay overthere for life. How to do, i must to make application or not for having lao citizen, if not must to pay 2 $ per day, Where i can have application ?
I can see that Laos has changed slowly in positive way . For the young generation of Lao nork they don't have any issue to go back and help rebuild the country, not all of them will return however there are plenty.Even some of them just return for a visit only they bring back Dollars, compare to those backpackers (Farang) I am sure Lao nork spend a lot more.There are more than 500 000 Lao nork around the world . some of them return to Laos every year Most of Lao nork still have a family members or relatives back in Laos,that's another reason . just make them feel they're welcome.
On behaft of Lao people who haven't got chance to access to internet we welcom to your mother's Land. even you are not live in laos but you are still laotians. And I want all of you who have comments on this website please stop saying any thing to discredit your own mother country.
Yes, I do agree with you if some Lao Nork are happy with their life and didn't want to go back visiting or live in Laos then it's your problem but please becareful with your comment.
I think, this is a very good policy for many of Lao over sea who wanted to go back to live in Laos or doing business.
i think some Laonok want to go back when they are old, it is a good thing to come back and develop our country, the experience and knowledge that laonok earn from board will help Laos to go forward and get out of poverty. welcome. welcome
They should change the law to allow dual citizenship. I think more people would be interested if they do so.
I totally agree with you Bro/Sis, a Lao PDR should propose their new immigration law. They should allow us as lao-noks havea dual citizenship. this is not only benefit our lao-noks, also the country as well.
i warning you, The Laopdr only need your money. This communist is a big Liar.
You think too much You can't stop them. How much money you have, They don't need your money, Now they have 3 GOLD MINE + More . They don't need your idea, They need good people, they don't need people like you. We going to leave you here, when you get old you going lo living like a dog, because you don't have enoug money to spend. If you working you might be ok, if you can't work HAHAAAA Wait and see . Anyway, I think you have problem whith them, Stay away if you go there can't comback.
-- Edited by METTA on Wednesday 2nd of September 2009 04:04:18 AM
I MISS MY HOMELAND SOMUCH ,IF I HAVE A CHANCE I will go back to live there .want thing i want lao gvm , not charge me too much,or no visa would be better.
I MISS MY HOMELAND SOMUCH ,IF I HAVE A CHANCE I will go back to live there .want thing i want lao gvm , not charge me too much,or no visa would be better.
Good, If you go to visit you have to pay $35 for visa, if you 65 & older you don't have to pay for EXTEND, go to this WEB-
some people here say that laos need their money ooh ! khor thod ! we Do Not need any penny from them , comon ! in laos there are many poor people but here, in vientiane there are many many rich people who drive in Benz , ferrari, lexus and live like kings. please, come and see by yourself if you don't believe !
I'm so sorry to say this to you ! Please stop saying Lao or we need your money. I think you dream yourself! The reasion why we welcome Lao Oversea back to lao becuase we still thinking for all of lao peole who stay over the world we are felling as the same family. do you know our country now under proceess of development and we try to drive our country forward. and not only lao oversea but even other people in the world we also welcome to helping us.
Laos is Communit country ! What wrong with that ! Do you know the word communit mean ! . I'm lao citizen is not very good in English but I ask you XOXO to check what it mean.
If you good person we welcome but if you feel youself not good please do not come to laos we might have no chance to go back!!!!
Please stop discredit our country and our Goverment.
To all of young Lao in foreign countries should not come back to Laos without nothing. Now you are living in development countries all of you must try to learn and complete high level education BA, MA, PH D in defference professionals, in the future maybe you will be the Prime Minister of that country. You come back to Laos without nothing, then you are nothing. You are living in development countries without nothing then you are nothing, Thanks.
I think you r out of date, don't proud yourself too much, I notice that many Lao nai student study in OZ, EU, Japan, NZL, England, S Korea, Frace, not countig China VN and other Eastern country, any way they can develop their country without you, sorry if I am wrong
To all of young Lao in foreign countries should not come back to Laos without nothing. Now you are living in development countries all of you must try to learn and complete high level education BA, MA, PH D in defference professionals, in the future maybe you will be the Prime Minister of that country. You come back to Laos without nothing, then you are nothing. You are living in development countries without nothing then you are nothing, Thanks.
I agree , Thank-you very much to see some thing like this .
XOXO I think You are nothing, if you have some thing you don't posting like nothing, HAHA I am sorry sir.
To all of young Lao in foreign countries should not come back to Laos without nothing. Now you are living in development countries all of you must try to learn and complete high level education BA, MA, PH D in defference professionals, in the future maybe you will be the Prime Minister of that country. You come back to Laos without nothing, then you are nothing. You are living in development countries without nothing then you are nothing, Thanks.
webboard is so boring,i don't want to say with strangers on this forum,sometimes i feel tired to post anything, because it seems to me that anyone here are strangers,
Yes ! I totally agree with you XOXO have not thing. No money to pay for air ticket to come to Laos , no money to spend in lao And the last no is BRAIN. O!Sorry I'm forgot the last thing for XOXO ( Can any one tall me how XOXO living in developing country with out BRAIN ??????????)
i think some Laonok want to go back when they are old, it is a good thing to come back and develop our country, the experience and knowledge that laonok earn from board will help Laos to go forward and get out of poverty. welcome. welcome
My personal take on the recent official promulgation by Lao government in facilitating and granting the rights for overseas Laotians who presumably have a desire to reside in Laos permanently is a great strategic policy in which Communist China had put in practice since the mid-90s. It is under no surprise that Laos, if it wants to speed up the development process, it needs professionals in every field possible from skilled labors, and entry levels to high paid positions in its ever-changing economic prosperity. Only ignorant tyrants would deny the necessity of having educated people to make up the shortcomings. Lao PDR though has been dispatching its students to study abroad in various fields but it also relies heavily on foreign scholarships; furthermore, its young graduates can only bring home the skills but not necessarily the experiences to which it urgently needs.
Lao PDR will soon offer a dual citizenship if it fails to sufficiently woo in those needed professionals according to its ten or five-year plan. However, it will initially stick with its attitude of "Wait and See" but if only older folks without much talent flocking to Laos, the government would seek adaptation in its policy then the chances of returning to the ancestral land by newer posterity with higher education is much greater. Many would not want to completely expatriate his or her American citizenship when millions are still paying to become one and enormous number of younger female in Laos would wed the much older Laotian Americans in order to leave her impoverished country.
Nothing can be worse than struggling in Laos financially but unable to return to the United States. It would be an outright sacrifice and no doubt we would profoundly regret if things do not turn out according to our expectation.I am sure Communist China understood this dilemma; otherwise, it would not allow its overseas Chinese dual citizenships from the beginning.
You and BLM will return to Thakhek together.We will be doing some kick boxing for fun and after that, we can have our Khammuane girls serve us Beer Lao. Do you like the idea? Chomphet is where my family lives.
i think some Laonok want to go back when they are old, it is a good thing to come back and develop our country, the experience and knowledge that laonok earn from board will help Laos to go forward and get out of poverty. welcome. welcome
My personal take on the recent official promulgation by Lao government in facilitating and granting the rights for overseas Laotians who presumably have a desire to reside in Laos permanently is a great strategic policy in which Communist China had put in practice since the mid-90s. It is under no surprise that Laos, if it wants to speed up the development process, it needs professionals in every field possible from skilled labors, and entry levels to high paid positions in its ever-changing economic prosperity. Only ignorant tyrants would deny the necessity of having educated people to make up the shortcomings. Lao PDR though has been dispatching its students to study abroad in various fields but it also relies heavily on foreign scholarships; furthermore, its young graduates can only bring home the skills but not necessarily the experiences to which it urgently needs.
Lao PDR will soon offer a dual citizenship if it fails to sufficiently woo in those needed professionals according to its ten or five-year plan. However, it will initially stick with its attitude of "Wait and See" but if only older folks without much talent flocking to Laos, the government would seek adaptation in its policy then the chances of returning to the ancestral land by newer posterity with higher education is much greater. Many would not want to completely expatriate his or her American citizenship when millions are still paying to become one and enormous number of younger female in Laos would wed the much older Laotian Americans in order to leave her impoverished country.
Nothing can be worse than struggling in Laos financially but unable to return to the United States. It would be an outright sacrifice and no doubt we would profoundly regret if things do not turn out according to our expectation.I am sure Communist China understood this dilemma; otherwise, it would not allow its overseas Chinese dual citizenships from the beginning.
You and BLM will return to Thakhek together.We will be doing some kick boxing for fun and after that, we can have our Khammuane girls serve us Beer Lao. Do you like the idea? Chomphet is where my family lives.
kick boxing was my fovorite sport when i was a kid,i won all the competition in my village haha, i mean I kicked some of my friends' ass all the time. so BLM. we can open the boxing traning center in Thk, what do u think? Chomphet is next to my village ( chomkeo), give me a massage if you decided to visit Laos agian. take care..
i get paid $400 a week. $1,600 per month. good enought for me. if i want to go laos i just go buy a plane ticket, is very simple, but i want to go to Laos because of the communist.
To all of young Lao in foreign countries should not come back to Laos without nothing. Now you are living in development countries all of you must try to learn and complete high level education BA, MA, PH D in defference professionals, in the future maybe you will be the Prime Minister of that country. You come back to Laos without nothing, then you are nothing. You are living in development countries without nothing then you are nothing, Thanks.
webboard is so boring,i don't want to say with strangers on this forum,sometimes i feel tired to post anything, because it seems to me that anyone here are strangers,
RE: webboard is boring,
tell me about it i think samakomlao is a public toilet mainly for Thai and is run by spineless twerps
To all of young Lao in foreign countries should not come back to Laos without nothing. Now you are living in development countries all of you must try to learn and complete high level education BA, MA, PH D in defference professionals, in the future maybe you will be the Prime Minister of that country. You come back to Laos without nothing, then you are nothing. You are living in development countries without nothing then you are nothing, Thanks.
webboard is so boring,i don't want to say with strangers on this forum,sometimes i feel tired to post anything, because it seems to me that anyone here are strangers,
RE: webboard is boring,
tell me about it i think samakomlao is a public toilet mainly for Thai and is run by spineless twerps
Don't give up too easy! Eneny is everywhere. It can be a person who sits next to you or sometime,it could be your love one. Never give up! if you do,you the one become your own enemy. Remember, u have to allow yourself to accept the reality first before your enemy can stop drive u nut. Please don't hate your stranger,take his shares as your power of guiding life. You should thank you him for all those times that he had shared with u here. Love will prevail everything. Sometime, you might not live long enough to see it. life is too short. Bad life is bad angry. Good life no curse no yell. Hey, I am your stranger too. Please don't poison me with your anger, Love me with your sense of humor then your understanding will remain good in my heart forever.
My personal take on the recent official promulgation by Lao government in facilitating and granting the rights for overseas Laotians who presumably have a desire to reside in Laos permanently is a great strategic policy in which Communist China had put in practice since the mid-90s. It is under no surprise that Laos, if it wants to speed up the development process, it needs professionals in every field possible from skilled labors, and entry levels to high paid positions in its ever-changing economic prosperity. Only ignorant tyrants would deny the necessity of having educated people to make up the shortcomings. Lao PDR though has been dispatching its students to study abroad in various fields but it also relies heavily on foreign scholarships; furthermore, its young graduates can only bring home the skills but not necessarily the experiences to which it urgently needs.
Lao PDR will soon offer a dual citizenship if it fails to sufficiently woo in those needed professionals according to its ten or five-year plan. However, it will initially stick with its attitude of "Wait and See" but if only older folks without much talent flocking to Laos, the government would seek adaptation in its policy then the chances of returning to the ancestral land by newer posterity with higher education is much greater. Many would not want to completely expatriate his or her American citizenship when millions are still paying to become one and enormous number of younger female in Laos would wed the much older Laotian Americans in order to leave her impoverished country.
Nothing can be worse than struggling in Laos financially but unable to return to the United States. It would be an outright sacrifice and no doubt we would profoundly regret if things do not turn out according to our expectation.I am sure Communist China understood this dilemma; otherwise, it would not allow its overseas Chinese dual citizenships from the beginning.
You and BLM will return to Thakhek together.We will be doing some kick boxing for fun and after that, we can have our Khammuane girls serve us Beer Lao. Do you like the idea? Chomphet is where my family lives.
kick boxing was my fovorite sport when i was a kid,i won all the competition in my village haha, i mean I kicked some of my friends' ass all the time. so BLM. we can open the boxing traning center in Thk, what do u think? Chomphet is next to my village ( chomkeo), give me a massage if you decided to visit Laos agian. take care. __________________________________________________________
Yes, that's a good idea indeed Khonthakek. I am going to call my family tomorrow to make sure if we live in Chomphet. I kind of forgot lol.
How about your toilet? E-Lao ka-dae. Don't forget that your root is Lao. Lao toilet even worst than Thai toilet 100 years. Please come and try. E-American Lao. E-Leum Toe Wah Jakhong Pen Poo Dai
I am in USA for 25 years I never work I am on welfare all the time I can sea food and go restaurant every once week < I just worry If I move to laos permanent Do they have welfare for me ? if not I think about it now I have food stamp everymonth ,tell me what i am gonna do if i live in laos ?this is USA good one thing for me
I am in USA for 25 years I never work I am on welfare all the time I can sea food and go restaurant every once week < I just worry If I move to laos permanent Do they have welfare for me ? if not I think about it now I have food stamp everymonth ,tell me what i am gonna do if i live in laos ?this is USA good one thing for me
i understand that it's hard for Laotian who immigrated to america and presently still receive the food stamp or welfare to survive . if you don't know what you are gona do in Laos for a living, you'd better continue to live in america for a while and when you collect some money you can return to laos to open a small business in laos , like open fake starbuck coffee shop for instance. haha
First they need money from us and they need brain from young guy with education to run the country they can not afford to send student to another country for learning it cost a lot of money that they they are here to talk to us , don`t blive them if you go so stupid
you much be blind one of them is me who study aboard that gov pay for it. you don't know , just don't pretend to know. like khon ta bord ngom xang. ngom tuik hu xang va bai pud,
how much money do you have? don't try to hard to discredit lao gov , is not going to work.
YOU NOT WANT TO COME, NO ONE WILL FORCE YOU. BUT PLEASE, STOP BARKING.
May i ask ? where're you studying aboard right now? just name of the country that's all i need to know.
I am in USA for 25 years I never work I am on welfare all the time I can sea food and go restaurant every once week < I just worry If I move to laos permanent Do they have welfare for me ? if not I think about it now I have food stamp everymonth ,tell me what i am gonna do if i live in laos ?this is USA good one thing for me
HaHaaaa. I can't beleave it, You living in USA for 25 years ! you don't safe any money. Just forget it, don't event think about.? And stay there , You want to go back Lao & asking for welfare.( Auy koo see pen baar tai )