Nepali Embassies & Consulates Worldwide: Directory and Services

Nepal's presence abroad is run by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA, Pararashtra Mantralaya), headquartered at Singha Durbar in Kathmandu. As of 2025 the network comprises approximately 32 embassies, 9 consulates-general and 2 permanent missions (to the United Nations in New York and to UN bodies in Geneva). These numbers shift as Nepal opens or upgrades missions, so always confirm the current list on the official MoFA website.

An embassy is Nepal's principal mission in a country and is led by an Ambassador; it provides the full range of consular and diplomatic services. A consulate-general is a subordinate office in a second city that handles consular work (passports, attestation, NRN cards) for a defined region without full diplomatic functions. A permanent mission represents Nepal at an international organisation such as the UN rather than to a host government.

Each mission covers not only its host country but often several neighbouring states where Nepal has no resident mission. For example, one embassy may serve an entire region, so a Nepali living in a country without its own embassy is usually assigned to the nearest accredited mission. Checking your mission's jurisdiction before you travel or post documents saves wasted trips and courier costs.

Nepal concentrates its missions where large numbers of Nepalis live, study or work, especially the Gulf, South and Southeast Asia, and the major Western economies with sizeable diaspora communities. Popular searches such as 'nepal embassy usa', 'nepali consulate uk' and 'nepal embassy japan' map onto resident embassies in Washington D.C., London and Tokyo respectively, each with its own official gov.np website.

The list below groups the resident embassies by region as reported for 2025. In addition, consulates-general operate in second cities including New York, San Francisco and Dallas (United States); Kolkata (India); Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Chengdu and Lhasa (China); Jeddah (Saudi Arabia); and Dubai (United Arab Emirates). Honorary consulates staffed by non-diplomats exist in many more cities but offer limited services.

If you search 'nepalese embassy near me', identify your country in the list, then open that mission's official website (embassies typically use the pattern <country-code>.nepalembassy.gov.np and consulates <city/code>.nepalconsulate.gov.np). Confirm the covering mission for your city, because a consulate-general may handle your paperwork faster than the distant capital embassy.

Since 17 November 2021 (BS 2078 Kartik 1), Nepal issues only the biometric electronic passport (e-passport), which replaced the older Machine-Readable Passport (MRP). The e-passport contains a contactless chip compliant with ICAO Doc 9303 storing the holder's photo, fingerprints and personal data. Existing MRPs stay valid for travel until their printed expiry date, but every fresh issuance from Kathmandu's Department of Passports and from missions abroad is now an e-passport.

Nepalis abroad enrol for an e-passport in person at their embassy or consulate because fingerprints and a live photo (biometrics) must be captured on site; there is no fully online or postal e-passport route. You typically book an appointment, attend with your original Nepali citizenship certificate and current passport, give biometrics, and pay the fee. The Embassy of Nepal in Washington D.C., for instance, advises that processing takes roughly 1.5 to 2 months from the date of biometric capture, because personalisation is done centrally.

You can renew when your passport has under one year of validity left, when pages are full, or if it is lost or damaged. For urgent travel to Nepal on an expired or lost passport, missions issue a one-way Travel Document (travel permit) valid about three months. Fees and exact document lists vary by mission and are published on each mission's website, so verify before you apply.

The Non-Resident Nepali (NRN) identity card is issued under the Non-Resident Nepali Act, 2064 (2008 AD) and the Non-Resident Nepali Rules, 2066. It formally recognises two groups: a foreign citizen of Nepali origin (a person, or whose parents or grandparents, held Nepali citizenship before acquiring non-SAARC foreign citizenship) and a Nepali citizen who has lived abroad for at least two continuous years for work, business or profession.

NRN cards are issued in Nepal by MoFA and, outside Nepal, by Nepali embassies and missions, making the local mission the natural first stop for the diaspora. Eligibility extends across generations: second-generation applicants are foreign-born to a Nepali-citizen parent, while third-generation applicants are foreign-born to foreign-born parents whose grandparent was a Nepali citizen, supported by relationship documents. For Nepali citizens residing abroad the card is commonly valid two years; for foreign citizens of Nepali origin it can be valid up to ten years.

Importantly, the NRN identity card is distinct from 'NRN citizenship' (economic/social rights without political rights). Missions repeatedly caution that they are generally not authorised to issue NRN citizenship, which follows a separate process via designated District Administration Offices in Nepal. Fees differ by mission; the Embassy of Nepal in London, for example, has published an NRN ID fee, so always check the current rate and required forms on your mission's site before applying.

Missions attest and legalise documents so that Nepali paperwork is accepted abroad and foreign paperwork is accepted in Nepal. Common cases include academic certificates, marriage and birth records, powers of attorney, and commercial documents. Because Nepal is not a party to the Hague Apostille Convention, documents follow a chain of attestation rather than a single apostille stamp.

For a Nepali academic certificate to be verified by a mission abroad, the document must first be verified by the issuing/competent authority in Nepal (for example the relevant board or the Ministry of Education) and then attested by the Department of Consular Services, MoFA, at Tripureshwor, Kathmandu, before the embassy will legalise it. Missions verify original documents and generally will not authenticate on the basis of receipts or online records alone, so send or bring originals.

Powers of attorney executed abroad for use in Nepal (for property, banking or legal matters) are also witnessed and attested at the mission. Fees, acceptable payment methods and whether postal submission is allowed vary between missions, and turnaround can be same-day at the counter or several working days by post; confirm on the specific mission's services page.

Missions verify Nepali citizenship and support renunciation (relinquishment) of Nepali citizenship for those naturalising elsewhere. Nepal does not permit dual citizenship, so many diaspora members formally renounce and then rely on the NRN card for their ongoing link to Nepal. Renunciation is processed through the mission but decided in Nepal; the Washington D.C. embassy notes processing can range from about three months to one year.

For foreigners, missions issue tourist visas to Nepal, though most nationalities can also obtain a visa on arrival or an online Electronic Travel Authorisation. Missions still handle non-tourist and longer-stay visa categories, business documentation, and cases where visa-on-arrival is not appropriate. Tourist visa validity from a mission is typically up to six months from the date of issue.

Beyond these core services, missions assist in emergencies: repatriating the remains of deceased Nepali citizens, helping distressed or stranded workers, issuing emergency travel documents, and providing information during crises. Because service menus, fees and appointment systems differ by mission and change over time, treat this directory as a map and always confirm specifics on the official website of the mission covering your country.