The Nepali Embassy in Washington, DC, has stated that it does not have accurate statistics on the number of Nepalis living in the United States illegally, nor does it have numerical details of those who have been deported.
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In the year 2025, 484 Nepalis were deported from the US. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the US agency that controls and regulates immigration, has been deporting these Nepalis who were living illegally without documents in a phased manner.
With the strict implementation of the plan to control, expel and bring illegal immigrants under the control of President Donald Trump, the number of Nepalis being deported from the US has increased significantly.
According to ICE data, a total of 389 Nepalis were deported from the US in the six years from 2019 to 2024. In the first phase of the list of deportees released by ICE, 1,365 Nepalis were on the list of deportees.
Of these, 484 were deported from January to December via charter flights, Qatar and India to the immigration office at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu. Of these, 420 are men and 64 are women.
6 Nepalis have been deported in January, 18 in February, 32 in March, 26 in April, 58 in May, 42 in June, 17 in July, 16 in August, 53 in September, 38 in October, 80 in November and 98 in December. According to the data, 162 Nepalis were deported from the US in 2019, 97 in 2020, 23 in 2021, 28 in 2022, 22 in 2023, and 57 in 2024.
The Nepali Embassy in Washington, DC, has stated that it does not have a precise figure of illegal Nepalis residing in the US, as well as a numerical breakdown of those who have been deported. The embassy's Economic Counselor Yugraj Pandey admitted that it was not possible to keep a precise figure as all Nepali embassies residing in the US illegally and on the deportation list were not contacted.
Embassy Second Officer Juna Adhikari said that 407 travel documents were issued in 2025. 'Not all of the travel documents issued are guaranteed to be deported from the US,' she said, '300
94 documents were prepared at the request of ICE. But we have not received official information whether those whose travel documents were made at the request of ICE have been deported or not.’
Travel documents will be issued to those who do not have passports or who need to go to Nepal immediately after their passports expire, the official said. ‘We have issued travel documents to those who have entered the US illegally and are in the process of being deported because they do not have passports. But not everyone who has been issued travel documents will be deported,’ she said.
Praveen Bhattarai, spokesperson for the Nepali Consulate General in Dallas, Texas, which has been operating for the past two months, said that the number of people making travel documents has increased. ‘We are working on applications from the eight states under our jurisdiction, but we are also prioritizing applications from other states.’
In one year, 2 million illegal immigrants, including Nepalis, were deported from the US. Homeland Security, the top US immigration agency, has claimed that 1.6 million have left the US voluntarily and 400,000 have been detained and deported.
Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noem has said that the number of people leaving the US voluntarily has increased due to the Trump administration's plans and the activities of ICE. The number of illegal immigrants in the US, which is 15.8 million, has decreased by 2 million, to 13.8 million, according to data released by Homeland Security.
The largest number of illegal immigrants are from Mexico, El Salvador, India, Guatemala, Honduras, China, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Brazil and Colombia. Along with deporting illegal immigrants, ICE is also arresting businesses that employ them. According to ICE, more than 1 million US dollars in fines were collected from the arrested businesses.
“The number of arrests and deportations of those in the United States illegally will continue to increase. This work will continue with continued vigor,” Noem said. “The focus of ICE now should be on arrests and deportations from within the country. That is also reflected in the numbers.”
