 They do not have a Bhutanese passport because they were part of a group that wanted to leave Bhutan.However, there are other Tibetans who have Bhutanese residency because they accepted the offer to live in Bhutan instead of going to India.Although Bhutan traditionally welcomed refugees—and still accepted a few new ones fleeing the 1989 unrest in Tibet—government policy in the late 1980s was to refuse more Tibetan refugees.