The Tibetan Lama Sonam leave from Rickenbach, Switzerland must. However, he resists. His friends contact for him: They collected signatures and presented them yesterday to the Migration Board Thurgau.
A thick envelope, presented the city of parliament Michael Wiler Sarbach yesterday an employee of the Department of Migration in Frauenfeld Thurgau. Many signature sheets with about 1,000 signatures for an extension of the permit of the Tibetan, Sonam Lama, were included. "This is all we can do for him," says Michael Sarbach. He called the collection of signatures to life after he learned that his friend, Switzerland at 30 must leave in June 2009. Within no time had the Internet over 300 Members of the newly formed Facebook group "Sonam Lama Appreciation Society" connected. And we were literally flooded with signatures. "
The woman took off
Sonam Lama arrived in late 2005 in Switzerland. Earlier, the Nepalese nationals living in the United States. There he met a Swiss woman, whom he married and because he moved to Switzerland. But now the two live together any more. In February, Sonam Lama's wife from their apartment Rickenbach moved out. And therefore the migration of Thurgau, an extension of the permit of Sonam Lama has rejected. In a letter to the Tibetans, the Office also writes of a lack of professional and social integration. The decision of the Migration Office can not understand Michael Sarbach. Sonam Lama is more integrated into social life, when many Swiss. Of this evidence, not least the many signatures, says Sarbach. Sonam Lama was open and outgoing and have to be a singer of the band Wiler "Cruel Noise" made a name. He regularly attend concerts in the region. Why they had come to know well, says Michael Sarbach, who helps as president of the Cultural Association of Sound Wiler sofa to hold concerts. Sonam Lama and professionally could be accused of anything. Since Sonam Lama, lives in Switzerland, he works for a parcel service company in Wil. "It's not that you people identifies which "integrates so active, says Sarbach.
I would lose everything, "
also Sonam Lama defends itself against the threat of expulsion from Switzerland. Against the decision of the Migration Office of the 32-year-old has lodged appeals. He was afraid to leave Switzerland, he says. "I would lose everything." In the U.S. he could not return, as is to be made was missing. In Nepal, he knew no one. His parents live in India. Sonam Lama still has not lost the hope for a positive outcome. The broad support from its environment encourages him. But profit is expected to petition anything. "Such actions are it again and again. But this is not a majority vote of the people. We consider the signatures therefore not, "says Stefan Felber by the Department of Justice and Security. The appeal's decision can be expected in later this year. "If this turns out negative, I'm pre federal court," the Lama Sonam is combative.
Source: Deborah Berwick, ThurgauerZeitung, 06/04/2009
