Machine Readable Passport (MRP) from Nepal - Tips and Guidelines - Your questions and our answers

We are back in this blog after a long time. As there was a change of owner of this blog, it took sometime for us to sort out the issues relating to LOGIN ID and Password. Due to this, we could not attend to some of the comments in our blog earlier. Today, we are going to reply to some of the comments posted by our reader earlier.

WE had published a blog on Machine Readable Passport (MRP) of Nepal earlier. The article can be accessed from http://nepalikabitagajal.blogspot.com/2014/11/machine-readable-passport-mrp-from.html?showComment=1447117475606

In that blog, we had outlined the scheme of MRP and had advised our readers on how they can get MRP passport without much trouble in Nepal. After reading the article on MRP Passport, we have received few questions from our esteemed readers and we are going to respond to their comments and feedbacks:

roshan tamrakar has the following questions:

Hi Sir,

Thanks for your reply. One quick question. Will my existing passport number (handwritten) change when I replace it with MRP?

Thanks

Our team responds: Roshan Tamrakar Ji, the Passport No. in your new MRP Passport will be entirely different from your old handwritten passport. Therefore, the existing Passport No. (handwritten) will change when you receive a MRP Passport.

Kathmandu link has the following questions:

Dear Sir,

I have already taken recommendation letter from CDO office but the problem is that due to some reason I didn't made my passport from last year.I have still that recommendation letter from CDO office but that is old taken in 10/19/2014,is it still work for the passport?

Regards,

Manish

Our team responds: Manish Ji, Every document will generally have its validity. However, in this case, we are not sure about the duration or validity period of such recommendation. So, we are not aware if we can use old recommendation letter (which is as old as one year) to get a new MRP. 

We are sorry. We do not have information on this. Please contact the nearest CDO Office, or nearest Embassy of Nepal if you are in foreign country or Department of Passport, NarayanHiti Palace, in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Pari has the following questions:

Hi, I'm also facing same problem. Can you please let me know that can we go back to Nepal with old passport n travel document during December, well if we made travel document does it work to go Nepal and made MRP over their and get back again or not ???

Our team responds: Pari Ji, We are sorry. We do not have information on this. Please contact the nearest CDO Office, or nearest Embassy of Nepal if you are in foreign country or Department of Passport, NarayanHiti Palace, in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Normally, they should allow you to return to Nepal on your old passport. However, you should ask this information from Department of Passport, Kathmandu as rules relating to MRP may have been changed.

Bidhan Ojha has the following questions:

Hi, I am a frequent traveler. Current MRP passport has very few pages and I am running out of pages. Previous Handwritten passport has 60 pages but now it has been reduced to 36 pages. Is there provision to get extra pages passport. Normally, in other countries, people can either add pages or apply for big passport at extra cost with lots of pages.

Our team responds: Bidhan Ji, We are sorry. We do not have information on this. Please contact the nearest CDO Office, or nearest Embassy of Nepal if you are in foreign country or Department of Passport, NarayanHiti Palace, in Kathmandu, Nepal.

We are not so sure on this but the information that we have suggests us that you have to make a new  MRP if its pages are over. To our knowledge, Department of Passport, Kathmandu issues MRP passport which will have only 36 pages. However, in the future, we understand that they are planning to issue MRP Passport with 60 pages.