Nepal Passport Department - Get MRPs by May 15

Any Nepali found to be staying with a manual passport abroad may be deemed as illegal, warned by Department of Passport. They urged, by the May next year, people needs to replace their handwritten passports by machine readable ones.

According to International Civil Aviation Organization's binding rule, Nepal has to replace manual passports by September 2015.

An online application and additional service are being prepared by Foreign Minstry department to make the passport regime hassle-free, as the deadline nears.

Reference URL for more info on MRP:
http://dopmofa.gov.np/mrp/