http://www.nepalnews.com.np/archive/2007/apr/apr12/news04.php Govt asks embassies to cancel visa of 80 bank defaulters The Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MoFA) has asked the embassies in Kathmandu not to cancel visa issued to blacklisted businessmen. The MoFA sent a list of 80 businessmen blacklisted for non-payment of bank loans to the foreign embassies in Kathmandu requesting them to cancel visa issued to them because their passports have been declared null and void. “The list of 80 people have come to us from the protocol section of the ministry, and once the passports are declared null and void, the visa also becomes null and void,” The Himalayan Times daily quoted an official at the American Embassy as saying. The Ministry had sent the name and address of the blacklisted businessmen for the purpose. The ministry could not give passport number of such defaulters as the ministry only has the record of the person taking diplomatic passports. The decision was taken by the Ministry of Finance about a month ago to cancel the passports of bank defaulters. nepalnews.com pb Apr 12 07