However, the Official and the Diplomatic passports are exempted from fees. Normal processing takes around 4 weeks but sometime it may take up to 6 weeks and is done from the Chief District officer's office. Urgent processing is done by the ministry of foreign affairs and takes 2 to 3 days. Or, the sum of 10,000.00 (US $90.76 As of 15 July 2019 ) as fees for an Ordinary passport for urgent processing which takes 3–4 business day and NPR 5,000 for normal processing. Īpplicants for Nepalese passports are required to pay the authorised passport issuing office a sum of NPR 15000 or NPR 12,000 for issuance of passport on same day of application or for the day after the day of application respectively.

Issuence of passport Fees Īs of 2022, an ordinary e-passports is issued for NPR 5,000 (adult 34 pages), NPR 10,000 (adult 66 pages), NPR 12,000 (Fast track service, 34 pages), NPR 20,000 (Fast track service, 66 pages). Diplomatic e-passports have a crimson-red cover, official e-passports navy-blue, and peacekeepers' e-passports are tiger-orange colour. The cover of ordinary e-passports is chocolate-brown. These passports are distinguished by their cover. These are ordinary, official, diplomatic and travel documents. There are 4 different types of passports issued by the government of Nepal. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs request and require in the name of Government of Nepal all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance, and to afford him or her every assistance and protection of which he or she may stand in need of.Ĭurrent e-passport contains the following data: All traditional passports are withdrawn from circulation as of November 2015.Įach passport contains a note in English from the foreign ministry that is addressed to the authorities of all other states, identifying the bearer as a citizen of that state and requesting that he or she be allowed to pass and be treated according to international norms. Other forms of passport Īll traditional hand written passports were honoured as a bona fide travel document issued by the Nepalese Government until 24 November 2015. On 17 November 2021, the first electronic passport, or e-passport was introduced and Nepalese writer Satya Mohan Joshi was the first to receive the e-passport.

MRP information page Electronic passport Nepal stopped issuing hand-written passports on 31 March 2010. Machine readable passport (MRP) Īs a member of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Nepal was obliged to issue machine-readable passports (MRP) after 2010. This was changed in 2052 BS to issue a passport from five development regions as per government's policy of decentralization. Up to 2052 BS, all passports were issued in Kathmandu only.

It is estimated that about 1 lakh passport was issued in sheet paper form. The booklet form of the passport was issued in the 1960s. These passports were in a form of sheet paper. The first of this kind was issued in 10 Shrawan 2012 BS which was issued by the secretary of the ministry. The modern passports were issued in 2012 BS. These old passports are showcased in the passport museum in Kathmandu. A guarantor was needed to issue the passport. The passport holder is identified with their physical description because there was no photography available at that time. The oldest passport in Nepal is a handwritten passport issued in 1957 BS to a person named Kaliprasad (no surname disclosed) and his ten porters to travel to Butwal and Taulihawa from Kathmandu. The early passports in Nepal were used for internal and external travel for religious and business purposes.

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