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Nepal visa requirements

Current entry categories for 199 passport nationalities, paired with official evidence as it is reviewed.

Access data checked August 24, 20264 official sources collected
Citizenship1Visa-free1Visa on arrival185Visa required12
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199 passports

Citizenship

1

Visa-free

1

Visa on arrival

185

Visa required

12
Policy history

Official evidence timeline

One group agreement or destination policy can support many passport relationships. Dates are recorded only when an official source establishes them.

  1. Current official routeVisa-free

    Nepal: Indian ordinary passports with no visa required

    TIA Immigration expressly says Indian citizens do not need a visa to enter Nepal.

    • Ordinary-passport nationality result only. TIA Immigration says Indian citizens may enter using a valid passport without a visa.
    • The source also describes voter-card and minor-document alternatives for Indian citizens without a passport; those document-specific routes are outside this ordinary-passport policy.
    • Does not decide residence, work, study, transit, crew, diplomatic, official, service, special-document, or case-specific entry rules.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    India

    Official sourcesTribhuvan International Airport Immigration Office, Department of Immigration: Tribhuvan International Airport Immigration Office: Arrival and Tourist Visa FAQDepartment of Immigration, Government of Nepal: Nepal Department of Immigration: Visa Exemption
  2. Current official routeVisa on arrival

    Nepal: ordinary passports eligible for tourist visa on arrival

    Nepal's current tourist-visa guidance and TIA's exhaustive exception list support visa on arrival for all listed foreign ordinary passports except India and the twelve prior-visa nationalities.

    • For ordinary short-visit/tourist treatment, TIA facilitates visa on arrival; the listed twelve nationalities in the separate prior-visa policy are expressly ineligible for arrival issuance, and Indian citizens are visa-free.
    • DoI's online tourist form may be completed before arrival or at airport kiosks, then the traveller pays at the counter and the immigration officer issues the visa. This is arrival processing, not a nationality-wide eVisa classification.
    • Tourist visa-on-arrival options are 15, 30 or 90 days; tourist stay, including extensions, is subject to Nepal's stated visa-year limits and immigration determination.
    • SAARC nationals Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka receive a gratis visa for up to 30 days on their first visit in a visa year; this is a fee-free visa on arrival, not no-visa admission. Afghanistan remains a named arrival-visa exclusion.
    • China, child, NRN-card, diplomatic, official, service, residence, work, study, transit, crew, special-document and case-specific rules are not flattened into this ordinary-passport nationality result.
    185 passport nationalities covered

    Albania, Algeria, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, The Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoro Islands, Congo (Rep.), Congo (Dem. Rep.), Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, The Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong (SAR China), Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao (SAR China), North Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, North Korea, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau Islands, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé and Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Korea, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan (Chinese Taipei), Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino, Vatican City, Andorra

    Official sourcesDepartment of Immigration, Government of Nepal: Nepal Department of Immigration: Visa InformationTribhuvan International Airport Immigration Office, Department of Immigration: Tribhuvan International Airport Immigration Office: Arrival and Tourist Visa FAQMinistry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Nepal: Nepal Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Nepal and SAARCDepartment of Immigration, Government of Nepal: Nepal Department of Immigration: Visa Exemption
  3. Current official routeVisa on arrival

    Nepal: SAARC ordinary passports with fee-free tourist visa on arrival

    Nepal grants these non-Indian, non-Afghan SAARC citizens a gratis visa for up to 30 days on the first visit of a visa year.

    • This is a fee-free tourist visa, not no-visa entry, and is limited to up to 30 days on the first visit in a given visa year.
    • Afghanistan is a SAARC member but is expressly ineligible for visa on arrival and is therefore excluded from this group; Indian citizens are separately visa-free.
    • All ordinary-passport arrival conditions and exclusions of the overlapping universal visa-on-arrival policy continue to apply.
    5 passport nationalities covered

    Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

    Official sourcesDepartment of Immigration, Government of Nepal: Nepal Department of Immigration: Visa InformationTribhuvan International Airport Immigration Office, Department of Immigration: Tribhuvan International Airport Immigration Office: Arrival and Tourist Visa FAQMinistry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Nepal: Nepal Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Nepal and SAARC
  4. Current official routeVisa required

    Nepal: ordinary passports not eligible for visa on arrival

    TIA Immigration expressly excludes these nationalities from visa on arrival; obtain an appropriate visitor visa before travel.

    • TIA Immigration expressly names these nationalities as not eligible for visa on arrival. They require an appropriate visa arranged before travel through Nepal's pre-departure visa channels.
    • This policy does not call an online form eVisa: DoI's ordinary tourist online form is also used for counter-issued visa-on-arrival processing, and the reviewed sources do not establish an exclusive nationality-wide electronic issuance route for this group.
    • Does not decide diplomatic, official, service, special-document, refugee, residence, work, study, crew, transit or case-specific treatment.
    12 passport nationalities covered

    Afghanistan, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Iraq, Liberia, Nigeria, Palestinian Territory, Somalia, Syria, eSwatini, Zimbabwe

    Official sourcesTribhuvan International Airport Immigration Office, Department of Immigration: Tribhuvan International Airport Immigration Office: Arrival and Tourist Visa FAQDepartment of Immigration, Government of Nepal: Nepal Department of Immigration: Visa InformationDepartment of Immigration, Government of Nepal: Nepal Department of Immigration: Visa Exemption