It is sad that a whole lot of the Nepalese pilgrims were denied entry visa by the Australian Immigration Office. But I think this is right because we in Nepal never know how such opportunities are offered; who selects the participants and who are selected. For a group like youth representatives, I would have expected transparency in such matters. I wonder whether the 25 youth pilgrims were truly youth representatives in a transparent manner and whether they are the true representatives to attend such events. In many situations, people obtaining visa for such events later choose to remain illegally in such countries. I think that is not good. Therefore, in future, the organisers of such events must ensure that their partner organisations in countries like Nepal must adopt public advertised and transparent procedures for announcing such events and selecting the representatives. Then such lost opportunities would not occour. Suresh