The crooks at immigration desk will stop you from boarding the plane if you do not produce Shram Karyalaya letter. There are three workarounds:

If you are short on time - I mean very short on time, buy a one way ticket to Delhi for earlier that day, get boarding pass for your US flight and Delhi flight, using separate desks and at separate times the same day. For all documentation purposes, show your Delhi boarding pass. But once you cross immigration, use the US destined boarding pass. Kinda lengthy process. but worked for me recently.

Option 2: Keep a a few (about 5-10 Rs 1000) notes handy, and keep a few of those in your passport if the immigration guy raises noise about Shram Karyalay letter.

Option 3: Fly overseas from Delhi instead. Problem solved. BTW, this is why a lot of women (and men too) trafficcers use Delhi or Mumbai airports as their take off points.

But if you have time, you are better off going to Shram Karyalaya (who will also send you to get a Life Insurance, etc.). Spend a few hundred/thousand rupees on the Lekhandaas and the 'fast-forwarders' who will get your work done in no time.

Good luck

This should answer your question: http://sebsonline.org/forum/forum_view.aspx?F=16&T=80748

--M.P.

Batauli and MP

thanks! Do appreciate your feedback guys.

- cheers.

My employment sponsored application to register permanent residency is pending.  In the mean time I am planning to return on "Advanced Parole" (travel permit).  Does anyone know if I am also going to need this Shram Karyalaya letter?  Any experiences?

anybody has answer to null's question?

I beleive no to nulls question bcz- H1B is temporary visa so 'Shram Karayala' stamps for approval to send nepali for temporary work. Advance Parole is related with Permanent residency. But still be careful, Imigration at TIA are full of jerks.

The links below might give some insight

http://dautari.org/2008/01/blog-post_23.html

 

http://dautari.org/2008/01/blog-post_9754.html

 

The Shram Mantralaya is a highly corrupt place with lots of corrupt officials and a swarming amount of dalals. One guy told me that a job in the Shram mantralaya is a highest lucrative position  after Birgunj border naka.

Nobody knows or will reveal you the rules except if you are willing to shell out some cash. The asking rate for  US shram swikriti sticker was Rs 10,000 in December (lower for the gulf countries, but the manpower companies handle them and as expected those get processed in 20-25 minutes). I don't know if the inflation has struck their rate as well.. I, however, am proud that I didn't shell our a single rupee to those corrupt crooks. But, I did have some help with some friends who worked in Manpower industry, who knew the system well to guide me. I would like to give their pointers and steps to everyone and at least hope to reduce some blatant corruption that is taking place in our country.

First of all, when I asked as an airport official on my way back told me - if you are coming back on vacation  then you don't need the sticker. I interpret that as - if you have a stamped H1b from Canada or other places then you may not need the damn sticker, but if you intend to get  stamped in Kathmandu then they will stop you. But again, that is my interpretation and may or may not hold true.

Now, to get a shram sticker you need
- A offer letter on office letter-head from your company stating how much you make. The letter must also state that you work for 40 hours in 5 days per week (must as even when they work in the Shram mantralaya they don't give a damn to learn about other countries labor laws )
- Insurance or Rs. 5 lakhs from Nepal Beema Sansthan (for a 1 year term) which costs about Rs. 1460. And again they won't honor that you have better life insurance which you might have bought here or that your employer provides.
- A health certificate. My friend arranged this from some of his contacts. But I needed to supply my photo and a copy of my passport. I didn't go to doctor but got a certificate stating that I am perfectly fit  and also phony height and weight :-)
- And you also need to fill up a form from the Shram karyalaya...
- A five rupee stamp.
- Nagarikta and passport (you may need to submit some copies )

If you have all the documents and go to shram mantralaya ( FYI which is in the road that connects new baneshwor to old baneshwor) and submit in the morning at around 11, which is the time the official who is supposed to handle will come, you can expect the sticker at around 3:00 PM.

And even then, some official may take you around the corner and ask you for some as he and the "keta haru" have done their job and worked hard for you. When such a thing happened, I didn't budge and gave nada to that jerk. However, he didn't cause any trouble later.

I hope I am able to clear some doubts on how to get a labor clearance (haha!) from Nepal.

Good luck!

yacc

Thanks all for your response.  I was in Nepal, on H1B, two years ago and they didn't need it.  So I guess they started  this requirement between then and now.  But what a hassle.  It is one more income source for this corrupt people/system...