Posted by: ohyouknow September 25, 2012
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Curious whether anyone's renewed their passport recently, and how it went for them.
I was dumb-struck by the attiutude of the Nepal Embassy at DC when I inquired on this matter.
So here's what my experience was like - their site provides an application form. It supposedly has links to instructions on how to fill it up and what size of photo to use and all that. Those links don't open. The form is asking for 35 X 45 photos. Places in US take 51X51 passport size photos.
I called last month and spoke in English - some guy piked up the phone, told me to go to their website, follow the instructions and send the application. And the passport would processes in 2 months time once they've received it.
I found out about the photo size discrepancy and I called again, and this time I spoke in Nepali. Diffrent guy picked it up. Here's what he said
I was dumb-struck by the attiutude of the Nepal Embassy at DC when I inquired on this matter.
So here's what my experience was like - their site provides an application form. It supposedly has links to instructions on how to fill it up and what size of photo to use and all that. Those links don't open. The form is asking for 35 X 45 photos. Places in US take 51X51 passport size photos.
I called last month and spoke in English - some guy piked up the phone, told me to go to their website, follow the instructions and send the application. And the passport would processes in 2 months time once they've received it.
I found out about the photo size discrepancy and I called again, and this time I spoke in Nepali. Diffrent guy picked it up. Here's what he said
- A4 size in Nepal is different from A4 size in US
- If I filled out the form available on the website, I'll never get the new passport. Because of the size issue (both paper size and photo size), the goverment won't approve my application.
- So the only option - I need to send a paid envelope to them with a letter enclosed asking for a hard copy of the form.
- They send the form to me, I fill it up and then send it back to them.
- They send it to Nepal, and it'll come back in 3 months after that.
Is it just me, or is this pretty much the only way of getting my passport renewed?