Gordon Brown to allow all Gurkha stay in the UK.

All Gurkha who served with the British Armed Forces receive the right of abode in Britain. According to the newspaper The Sun, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced about the decision on Thursday, May 21.
Details of new policies the British government regarding the Gurkha veterans and their families have not yet been disclosed. Give Gurkha citizenship Brown asked members of the parliamentary committee on foreign policy.
In April 2009 the Government refused to give a residence permit so Gurkha who retired from the British armed forces until 1997, because ministers raised concerns that this law will benefit some one hundred thousand people. After that, to protect the rights of Gurkha has begun a large-scale campaign in the media: the activists argued that the move to the UK from 10 to 35 thousand people.
Meanwhile, Nepalese Gurkha who retired after 1997, was allowed to remain in Britain as early as 2007. In September 2008, won the immigration process in the British courts, five Gurkha retired before 1997.
Until 1997, the main unit, which served as Nepalis based in Hong Kong, and only after the city under the jurisdiction of China is special disbanded. Currently, the British Army served more than 3,000 Gurkha, some of them are part of the British contingent in Afghanistan. The tradition of Gurkha volunteer in the Royal Armed Forces has been in existence since 1816.