Kathmandu : , November 18th, 2008 – Nepal is now issuing electronic passports. Foreign Minister Narayan Khadka inaugurated the e-passport personalization center at the Department of Passport and handed over the country’s first-ever e-passport to Satya Mohan Joshi, a 102-year-old historian, the department said in a press statement on Wednesday.
The Department of Passport’s Foreign Minister Narayan Khadka opened the first ever e-passport personalization centre and gave the passport to Satya Mohan Joshi (a historian aged 102), the department announced in a Wednesday press release.
E-passports will ultimately replace the machine-readable passports, which were introduced in 2010 to replace the decades-old handwritten passports in Nepal, Xinhua news agency reported.
E-passports are expected to eventually replace machine-readable passports that were first introduced in Nepal in 2010.They replaced decades-old handwritten Nepali passports.
“Only limited e-passports will be issued for a few days as the system is still in the testing phase,” Sharad Raj Aran, spokesman for the Department of Passport, told Xinhua.Sharad Raj Aran (spokesman for Department of Passport) told Xinhua that only limited e-passports would be issued during the testing phase.
The department plans to issue e-passports in a full manner within three weeks, while District Administration Offices and other offices authorized to issue passports in various parts of the country will start issuing e-passports by December, and Nepali diplomatic missions abroad will issue e-passports in January 2022, according to the press statement.According to a press release, the department will begin issuing electronic passports within three weeks.
District Administration Offices, other offices that are authorized to issue passports across the country, will also start issuing electronic passports from December.The Nepali diplomatic missions will be issuing electronic passports abroad in January 2022.
Aran said all offices would continue to issue machine-readable passports alongside e-passports until necessary infrastructure is ready for e-passports only.Aran stated that all offices will continue to issue machine-readable passports in addition to epassports, until the infrastructure is available for epassports.
“We plan to fully go into the e-passport regime by January end,” he added.He said, “We intend to completely enter the e-passport system by January end.”
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