Visa & Immigration

1. ངའི་ཝི་ས་སྦྱར་བཀོལ་ཞུ་ག་ཡིན།

   Ngay visa jar-koel zhu-ga yin

   I would like to apply for a visa

   Usage

   Used at immigration offices or embassies when applying for a Bhutanese visa

   Grammar Note

   In Dzongkha, using the humble form "zhu" for expressing wishes shows politeness

2. ངའི་ལམ་ཡིག་ག་ཏེ་ལས་ཞིབ་དཔྱད་འབད་ཚུགསཔ་ཨིན་ན།

   Ngay lam-yig ga-te lay zhib-chay bay tshugpa in-na?

   Where can my passport be checked?

   Usage

   Used at border control to ask where to present your passport for inspection

   Grammar Note

   "Ga-te lay" means "where / from where", "tshugpa" expresses possibility, and sentence-final "in-na" marks a question

3. ངའི་ཝི་ས་གི་ལས་རིམ་ག་ཅི་ལགས།

   Ngay visa gi lay-rim ga-chi la

   What is the visa procedure?

   Usage

   Used to inquire about the steps required for visa application

   Grammar Note

   The question word "ga-chi" (what) is placed at the end. "La" is a polite sentence-final particle

4. ཝི་ས་གི་དུས་ཚོད་ག་དེ་ལས་ཟློས་ཡོདཔ།

   Visa gi duey-tsho ga-de lay doe yoepa

   How long is the visa valid?

   Usage

   An important phrase for checking how long you are permitted to stay

   Grammar Note

   "Ga-de lay" is used to ask about duration or extent in Dzongkha

5. ཁྱོད་ཀྱི་ལམ་ཡིག་སྟོན་གནང་།

   Khyoe kyi lam-yig ton nang

   Please show your passport

   Usage

   Used by immigration officers or officials asking to see your passport

   Grammar Note

   "Nang" is an honorific auxiliary: "ton nang" makes a polite request to show something, reflecting Bhutan's emphasis on courtesy

6. ཝི་ས་གི་རིན་ག་ཚད་ལགས།

   Visa gi rin ga-tsad la

   How much is the visa fee?

   Usage

   Used to ask about the cost of obtaining a visa

   Grammar Note

   "Ga-tsad" is a question word for quantity and amount, used to ask about price or measure

7. ངའི་ཝི་ས་གི་འགྱུར་ལྡོག་བྱེད་དགོ།

   Ngay visa gi gyur-dok je-go

   I need to extend my visa

   Usage

   Used at immigration when you need to extend your stay

   Grammar Note

   "Go" is a modal expressing necessity or obligation, equivalent to "must" or "need to"

8. ལས་གཞི་གནང་དགོ་པའི་ཡིག་ཆ་གང་གང་ལགས།

   Lay-zhi nang-go-pay yig-cha gang-gang la

   What documents are required?

   Usage

   Used to check what paperwork is needed for visa or immigration procedures

   Grammar Note

   "Gang-gang" is a question word asking about multiple options, meaning "which" or "what kind"

9. ངའི་ལམ་ཡིག་ཤུལ་ལས་འབྱིན་ཚུགས་ག།

   Ngay lam-yig shul-lay jin tshug-ga?

   Can I get my passport back later?

   Usage

   Used to confirm passport return after temporarily surrendering it at immigration

   Grammar Note

   "Tshug" is an auxiliary verb expressing possibility or ability, equivalent to "can"; sentence-final "ga" marks a question

10. རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་མཐའ་མར་ག་ཏེ་ལས་འཁོར་ཡོདཔ་ལགས།

    Gyel-kab kyi ta-mar ga-te lay khor yoepa la

    Where can I cross the border?

    Usage

    Used to ask about the entry points into Bhutan

    Grammar Note

    "Ga-te lay" means "from where" and is used for location questions in Dzongkha

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