Thanks for your early response dd_sh. Well I wish I were lucky like you! All they need to do is to pull the number from the Nepal Telecom website, which provides free directory service, and verify my residence and whatever they want ....but I guess they have to follow their own procedure to do that...and with the election and vote counting going on they probably couldn't get it done as planned - or they deliberately postponed it for some time. From what I understand it should not take so much time. I wish I knew how those companies do the background check in Nepal.