| Agency Name: | Department of Passport (DoP)[1] |
| Preceding1: | Passport Section under the Protocol Division of the Ministry |
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| Jurisdiction: |  Nepal |
| Headquarters: | Tripureshwor, Kathmandu, Nepal |
| Motto: | "गुणस्तरीय, पारदर्शी एवं सेवाग्राहीमैत्री सेवा" |
| Minister1 Name: | Pradip Gyawali |
| Minister1 Pfo: | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
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| Chief1 Name: | Ram Kaji Khadka |
| Chief1 Position: | Director General |
| Parent Agency: | Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Nepal |
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| Website: | https://www.nepalpassport.gov.np/ |
The Department of Passport is a government agency of Nepal assigned with the responsibilities of issuing Passports to the Nepalese citizens and Travel Documents to the legally applicable persons under Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[2] [3]
See also: Nepalese passport. Until 31 March 2010, Nepal still issued hand-written Passports. However, as a member of International Civil Aviation Organization, Nepal was obliged to issue machine-readable passports. The Central Passport Office stopped issuing hand-written passports on 31 March 2010 and had to be withdrawn from circulation as of November 2015. On 26 December 2010, the Office introduced machine-readable passports and issued them thereafter.[4] As of 2021, Nepal began issuing E-passport to replace the Machine-readable passport.[5]