Everything about Nepal Travel Visa

Nepal attracts so many visitors from all around the world because of world-class hiking, mountain biking and whitewater rafting, historic cities and plenty of wildlife. Few nations fit so many exciting environments from the high Himalayas to forested foothills and humid plains into such a short area.

Although choosing to travel to Nepal is simple, the logistics of entering the nation might be quite more difficult. Including details on tourist visas, how to extend your stay and apply to work or study in Nepal, this is our handy reference on the visa requirements for the nation.

Arriving passengers most often obtain a Nepali visa. The good news is that most tourists find Nepal's admission requirements rather straightforward and painless. Most other visitors can obtain a 15-, 30-, or 90-day visa upon arrival; Indian nationals do not require a tourist visa to visit their own nation. This covers guests from the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, most other Western European nations.

To save time, you can do this online in advance; when you land at Tribhuvan International Airport, you must fill in an arrival card and have your picture taken at one of the automatic registration machines. This must be done less than 15 days before you arrive. If you leave it until you are in Kathmandu, the process should take more than an hour with plenty of waiting. Once the documentation is filed, you have to pay a US$30 visa fee for 15 days, US$50 for 30 days, or US$125 for 90 days at the payment desk. Unless they are US citizens, children under ten years old are not liable for paying for their tourist visas. Although payment is accepted in several main currencies, it is suggested to pack modest bills. At last, visit the immigration desk armed with your arrival form, payment receipt, passport, and enjoy Nepal!

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Making an overland crossing into Nepal

Arranging an advance visa will save time

A free visa is available to some visitors

Other visitors have to advance obtain a visa

For a multiple-entry visa, travelers pay more

Making an overland crossing into Nepal

By means of a sequence of border crossings in the Terai plains, you can easily cross into Nepal overland; the busy crossing at Sunauli/Bhairawa is reachable by bus from Delhi and Varanasi in India. If you land in Nepal, you still need a visa; but, it's advisable to pack several passport pictures with you and pay the visa cost in US dollars.

Arranging an advance visa will save time.

Particularly during the October–November peak, the lines for a tourist visa at Tribhuvan airport can move agonizingly slowly even if you qualify for a visa on arrival. Get a tourist visa in advance from the Nepali embassy or consulate in your home country (or the closest embassy in a neighbouring state) to save time.

Though the 15-, 30- or 90-day limit only begins when you actually arrive in Nepal, if you do acquire a visa before you fly you must reach the country within six months of the visa being issued. The Government of Nepal's online portal features an exhaustive list of its foreign missions.

A free visa is available to some visitors.

Considering Nepal's favorable policies toward surrounding countries, Chinese nationals are qualified for a free tourist visa while Indian visitors can enter Nepal without a visa. For their first trip to Nepal in a calendar year, visitors from numerous South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) nations are eligible for a free 30-day visa. This regulation covers residents of Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka but not those of Afghanistan.

Other visitors have to advance obtain a visa.

Before leaving, nationals of Afghanistan, Cameroon, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Ghana, Iraq, Liberia, Nigeria, Palestine, Somalia, Syria and Zimbabwe must get a visa from their local Nepali embassy or consulate. Traveling refugees from their host country have the same obligation.

For a multiple-entry visa, travellers pay more.

Although it's more frequent to stray from India to Nepal than the other way about, you can transform your single-entry Nepali visa into a multiple-entry visa for US$25 at the smaller office in Pokhara or the Central Immigration Office in Kathmandu. If you intend to visit Tibet or Bhutan from Nepal in a side trip, this is useful.