The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which had stopped issuing passports from April 1 due to the unavailability of Machine-Readable Passports (MRP)s, has decided to issue hand-written passports for emergency purposes until the MRPs arrive.
According to Chief of Protocol at the foreign ministry Mohan Krishna Shrestha, the ministry will issue the same passports issued before April 1 with a stamp marked "Non-Machine Readable" to those who need to go abroad urgently for treatment, employment or other purposes.
Such passports can be taken from the foreign ministry and Nepali diplomatic missions abroad. The District Administration Offices cannot issue such passports. The passports will also be valid till 2015.
Foreign ministry has written to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) requesting it to inform its member nations about Nepal's contingency plans. ICAO has not replied yet.
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