Bhutanese-Nepalis are not NRNs. If you are not currently a citizen of Nepal (residing abroad,) you are not an NRN. If you are a Nepalese citizen and you take up another country's citizenship (thereby losing your Nepalese citizenship), you lose your NRN status.

The NRN Association (in my opinion) in itself is a misnomer: It should perhaps be called Non-Resident Nepalese Association and not Non-Resident Nepali Association. The word non-resident by itself connotes a permanent residence, a country to which one belongs, a citizenship, and not the one to which one's ancestors belonged.

A Nepali speaking citizen of India residing outside of India is an NRI, not NRN. A Bhutanese (no matter what his/her ethnicity) residing outside of Bhutan (even if it is in Nepal) is a non-resident Bhutanese, not a NRN. You can't be a "non-resident" of two different places at the same time, unless you have dual citizenship and reside in a third country.

NRNA talks about the Nepali diaspora, but the Nepali diaspora is a miasma of citizens of Nepal and citizens of other countries who have Nepali roots. By that implication, "non-resident" does not imply to citizens of other countries because they do not have right of legal residence in Nepal, and therefore, non-resident is a term not applicable to them.

I am a Nepali speaking, dhaka topi loving, dasain-tihaar-teej- etc-manney non-resident Bhutanese (of Nepali origin, if I may add that!). Thank you vewy much! And no, I don't want to be a NRN, not at all!