List of documents you need to prepare and collect to obtain a non tourist visa extension in Nepal:
1- write a letter to the Social Welfare County requesting a visa extension, with the following attachments:
1.1 - application form with picture. you and your dependent.
1.2 - copy of the General Agreement of your NGO with the Government
1.3 - copy of the Project Agreement (the reason why you need a visa)
1.4 - report of the activities of the last year
1.5 - personal report (how did you improve in the last year thanks to the fact you were in Nepal)
1.6 - marriage certificate (if you have a family who needs also a visa)
1.7 - birth certificate (if your family comprehends one or more child)
1.8 - translation in English of points 1.6 and 1.7, done by a certified translator. Please notice you need to submit 1.6 and 1.7 even if it's a visa extension. Like if in the meanwhile, my child decided to change parents.
1.9 - Assignment letter from your employer
1.10 - CV
2- they will answer with a letter to the Ministry of Women Children and Social Affair. you should pick up the letter and bring it to the ministry, with the following attachments:
2.1 - application form with picture. you and your dependent.
2.2 - copy of the General Agreement of your NGO with the Government
2.3 - copy of the Project Agreement (the reason why you need a visa)
2.4 - report of the activities of the last year
2.5 - personal report (how did you improve in the last year thanks to the fact you were in Nepal)
2.6 - marriage certificate (if you have a family who needs also a visa)
2.7 - birth certificate (if your family comprehends one or more child)
2.8 - translation in English of points 2.6 and 2.7, done by a certified translator.
2.9 - Assignment letter from your employer
2.10 - CV
3 - The Ministry will answer back to the SWC, and so your visa request can finally go to the Home Affair. A part of printing the umpteenth cover letter just changing the letter head, you should provide:
3.1- their own application form with picture
3.2 - please copy from point 2.2 to 2.9
3.3 - their own CV format
4- if everything is ok, your folder will pass to the Labor Dpt.
A part of all the documentation, plus some extra pictures, they come to visit you office (for which you have to pay a per diem, even if not even them know why exactly they do the visit) and they interview you, with question like:
Why exactly a Nepalese cannot take your place?
How are you sustaining Nepalese economy and social culture?
then they tells you that from this year you are oblige to do the working permit, for which you have to pay 10,000 rupees (100 USD). Plus other 10,000 fine because you did not do it last year...when it wasn't required. And you pay.
5- Finally, you see land and you arrive to the IMMIGRATION DPT.
You can see the queue from a satellite picture. In the High Season is longer than the Great Wall.
That is because there are a lot of people, expat and tourist, who wants to renew the visa and because the people working at the immigration office are the slowest, nastier, arrogant guys ever.
You cannot apply for a renewal but just at the very last moment...and during this last election there was a 10 days strike which blocked many offices. So many people ran late and the visa expired.
The officers recognize it was a case of force majeure.
And then, smiling, the prepare the fine receipt.
1- write a letter to the Social Welfare County requesting a visa extension, with the following attachments:
1.1 - application form with picture. you and your dependent.
1.2 - copy of the General Agreement of your NGO with the Government
1.3 - copy of the Project Agreement (the reason why you need a visa)
1.4 - report of the activities of the last year
1.5 - personal report (how did you improve in the last year thanks to the fact you were in Nepal)
1.6 - marriage certificate (if you have a family who needs also a visa)
1.7 - birth certificate (if your family comprehends one or more child)
1.8 - translation in English of points 1.6 and 1.7, done by a certified translator. Please notice you need to submit 1.6 and 1.7 even if it's a visa extension. Like if in the meanwhile, my child decided to change parents.
1.9 - Assignment letter from your employer
1.10 - CV
2- they will answer with a letter to the Ministry of Women Children and Social Affair. you should pick up the letter and bring it to the ministry, with the following attachments:
2.1 - application form with picture. you and your dependent.
2.2 - copy of the General Agreement of your NGO with the Government
2.3 - copy of the Project Agreement (the reason why you need a visa)
2.4 - report of the activities of the last year
2.5 - personal report (how did you improve in the last year thanks to the fact you were in Nepal)
2.6 - marriage certificate (if you have a family who needs also a visa)
2.7 - birth certificate (if your family comprehends one or more child)
2.8 - translation in English of points 2.6 and 2.7, done by a certified translator.
2.9 - Assignment letter from your employer
2.10 - CV
3 - The Ministry will answer back to the SWC, and so your visa request can finally go to the Home Affair. A part of printing the umpteenth cover letter just changing the letter head, you should provide:
3.1- their own application form with picture
3.2 - please copy from point 2.2 to 2.9
3.3 - their own CV format
4- if everything is ok, your folder will pass to the Labor Dpt.
A part of all the documentation, plus some extra pictures, they come to visit you office (for which you have to pay a per diem, even if not even them know why exactly they do the visit) and they interview you, with question like:
Why exactly a Nepalese cannot take your place?
How are you sustaining Nepalese economy and social culture?
then they tells you that from this year you are oblige to do the working permit, for which you have to pay 10,000 rupees (100 USD). Plus other 10,000 fine because you did not do it last year...when it wasn't required. And you pay.
5- Finally, you see land and you arrive to the IMMIGRATION DPT.
You can see the queue from a satellite picture. In the High Season is longer than the Great Wall.
That is because there are a lot of people, expat and tourist, who wants to renew the visa and because the people working at the immigration office are the slowest, nastier, arrogant guys ever.
You cannot apply for a renewal but just at the very last moment...and during this last election there was a 10 days strike which blocked many offices. So many people ran late and the visa expired.
The officers recognize it was a case of force majeure.
And then, smiling, the prepare the fine receipt.
