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| amilo |
Posted
on 19-Apr-02 10:56 PM
I was wondering if anyone had a bitter expereince with the nepali emabassy like I did.
I called the embassy a few days ago to check on the status of my passport renewal process. When I mentioned my name, the guy told me that he had not processed my passport. I inquired if they had received my passport and if there is any way of knowing it. He simply replied that there is no way of checking and as soon as gets to open the incoming mail (all recieved mails are not opened immediately), he will process it. And before I had a chance to say anything more, he said "thank you, bye" and then click...
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| Hookka |
Posted
on 19-Apr-02 11:02 PM
One time, I called RN Embassy aroud 4.45 EST to ask about my passport renewel.
The guy on the other side told me, "Chito kura garnu 5 bajna lagyo." :)
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| bitter one |
Posted
on 20-Apr-02 02:14 AM
Yes, I had quite an experience with the Embassy. It was in 1992. Waiting for months after I sent my passport for renewal, I had no word form the Embassy. Therefore, I called them. I was informed that bunch of materials were missing so they could not process the passport. I asked them why they didn't notify me. Their answer was they couldn't afford to contact everyone whose documents were missing. I asked them if they could drop a line or by mail for 29 cents (postage at the time). Mr. Tamang (I wonder if he is still there) accused me for telling them how to run their business. Got into a big argument. Then the Mr. Pandey (the first secretary at the time) came to the phone and started to yell at me without knowing what was going on. They were the most incompetent bureaucrats I have ever dealt with. Bunch of losers.
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| US ko nepali |
Posted
on 20-Apr-02 03:53 AM
The year was 1997. I sent application and photo to the DC embassy for my passport renewal. My photo had my name written at the back very clearly. But, when they sent me my passport, it had someone else's photo. When I called them by phone, there was no apology. They were only wondering about where the other passport went which had my photo !! Besides, the handwriting in the passport sucks !!
I hope the new ambassador will address our embassy employee's negligence !
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| ?? |
Posted
on 20-Apr-02 10:45 AM
Seems like New York consulate office dies a better than embassy in DC. I sent out my passport to New York for renewal and after a few days I got a call from them saying that my photo was missing and they asked me to send another one. And that was it. I got my passport in about a week. They even have an automated phone system which walk you through various procedures. I dunno about embassy in DC but the consulate office in New York is definitely doing a good job
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| villageVoice |
Posted
on 20-Apr-02 10:57 AM
I have left at least half a dozen messages at the New York office in the last two years. I am sorry to say that none of these calls was returned.
How does the New York office work? Just as any sarkari office back home; nothing more and nothing less. How do you rate Murari Raj Sharma as the UN Ambassador? Far from impressive in absolute terms, but perhaps okay, or even quit good, if I were to use the Nepali yardstick.
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| SIWALIK |
Posted
on 20-Apr-02 11:03 AM
This kind of treatment should not be tolerated ina democratic soceity. Any suggestions on what we can do? Will it help if we all send our dissatisfaction and grievances to the top honcho from Nepal? Or even to officials in Nepal? What is the solution?
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| loverboy |
Posted
on 20-Apr-02 11:34 AM
Something needs to be done about this!
I think what we can do is simply request the users of this forum to write their frustrations with the Nepalese Embassy on this site and have it printed in magazines in Nepal or in other popular Nepali sites to get our voice heard.
This is simply not tolerable and unless we do something about it, these damn' beaurocrats will not change their ways!
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| getalife |
Posted
on 20-Apr-02 11:44 AM
you know what the porblem is? These nepali officers think they are in sarkari office in nepal. Damn, why can't they learn from this country? No wonder we are so backward and maoist are killin' people. God I hate so much this slack off, " no hurry no worry" system. It makes me puke without the shot of cheap mexican taquilla. And makes me go to amazon and become a hermit so that I don't have to see those wicked son of A bitches. Or get a base ball bat and go to sarkari office and spank those suckers.
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| I hate nepal embassy |
Posted
on 20-Apr-02 08:00 PM
The Nepalese embassy in DC is RUDE and worthless. They are a bunch of idiots and all suckers who work there are freakin' pathetic. Never saw such a workplace in USA. They don't have the simplest courtesy to talk on the phone - forget anything else.
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| mahamurkha |
Posted
on 20-Apr-02 08:08 PM
There is a "ukhhan tukka" in Nepal, probably, everybody knows it.
"Kukur ko puchhar, 12 barsha dhungro ma rakhda pani sojho hundai na!!!"
After all, those staffs were came from the same office which we had bitter experience in the country. So, "nani dekhi lageko bani, tyasai jandai na!!". Better idea is, bring up the issue, write it down in piece of paper and forward it to top level at least to the current ambassador. See what will happened? If nothing happend, then, we will move another step.
-- mahamurkha
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| nepali2 |
Posted
on 20-Apr-02 08:49 PM
Hi,
Here is one of my buddy's experiece
He renew his and his wife from there, and went to nepal. At the Airport of kathmandu, Those corrupted staff ask them where did you get this passport ? there is no stamp. Nepali Embassy won't put ink stamp at passport.
And these people at Ktm ask them $20.00 for fine so that can clear from the immigration. (hey you have to give them ghus to go to your own country).
Anohter story is they ask you what are you doing this much year at US ? none of their business, I will wash dishes in dhoti's restuarent or work for Microsoft.
I dont know how many are in embassy at Washington getting $$ for nothing. Do you any thing they did for nepalese in USA? or to promote nepal name for tourism?
They are worthless people, they can not process our Passport with care? some time one gets passport with another or you can even read your own name on passport.
I hope they read this and learn something,
Nepali2
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| amilo |
Posted
on 21-Apr-02 10:24 AM
As loverboy mentioned,
>
>I think what we can do is simply request the
>users of this forum to write their
>frustrations with the Nepalese Embassy on
>this site and have it printed in magazines
>in Nepal or in other popular Nepali sites to
>get our voice heard.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to go about this way?
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| dissapointed |
Posted
on 22-Apr-02 06:47 AM
This is about the Embassy in London:
A few months ago a good friend of mine sent his passport with all the required details and the fee included(this was in cash) to the embassy.....a few weeks went by and he didn't receive a reply so he called them up and asked if they had received the passport, they replied that they hadn't...a few weeks went by again and again receiving nothing called up the embassy, this time they said that they received the letter but that it was opened and that all the money, passport and everything was missing.......
The following day, his father in law went to the embassy for unrelated reason and while waiting to talk to someone saw my friends passport on the persons table. He told the man that the passport belonged to his son-in-law and quickly called my friend......My friend was so angry he took the afternoon off and came to the embassy straight away...and lo and be hold his passpert was right there before his eyes...the pasport the embassy officials had told him was missing.....he had stapled all the documents together and it was untouched, the only thing missing was the money......he went to the ambassador to complain. When the ambassador learned what had happened he called the 1st secretary over with all the documents to ask for an explaination...when the 1st secretary brought over the documents the staples had been removed and made to look like it had been opened, which I tought was particularly stupid given that my friend had just seen it a couple of minutes earlier....when my friend said that this the 1st secretary had nothing to say...he just said "khai hajoor...."
After everything he had to pay the fee again.....
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| rambahadur |
Posted
on 22-Apr-02 09:47 AM
I need to renew my passport. Where should I apply?.. DC or newyork?.. Any suggestion would be appreciated.
Ram bahadur
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| theyhi |
Posted
on 22-Apr-02 10:11 AM
The DC Embassy is worthless, time and again they have proved or is it disapproved themleselves. Do you hear anything substantial done by our Ambassador in the States? Do you hear what they are doing right now as I write this sentenc? They do Dashai party as every tom dick (that is what they are, actually, a dick I think) and harry does. That is all what they do. Do you remember how much prestige they have in Nepal because they happen to be the ambassodor to such and such country, no less the US? Well, what do you see them doing here? They cannot even manage their staff? Why are they so inept? Because the manager (the ambassador) who should be managing his office does only eat and invite his honorable guest (his clan) in the embassy and that is it for him. To be an ambassador is not a means to do something to the country but a goal initself for these people.
Now are you surprised that the kamdars in the embassy don't do anything? Well, where do you think they learn this kind of work ethics? The answer is obvious, isn't it? From Raja to Ranka we have the same mentality. Not do anything and blame others when the house starts to burn. Well, well, welcome to the Nepali state of mind....
THIS IS MY LETTER TO THE EMBASSY. I AM SURE THEY VISIT THIS PAGE. IF THEY DON'T THEY 'D BETTER START DOING IT.
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| SIWALIK |
Posted
on 22-Apr-02 10:36 AM
Let's email the ambassador! Let's write to the newspapers in Nepal. Let's show how enraged we are about this issue! We have to bring this to a wider public attention!
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| NK |
Posted
on 22-Apr-02 10:39 AM
Yes! Yes! Let's do it sathi ho! While we are at it let's go kill those maoists too! (ok , that last part of the sentence was a joke. I am ahimsabadi, Gandhi has taught me to be one)
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| Parakhi |
Posted
on 22-Apr-02 10:40 AM
Please don't assume they are always bad. In my case DC people were partly good and partly bad. I sent my old photo (I didn't realise it was also in my visa stam) for passport renewal. They found it and immediately called me to send new photo. It's their good part.
However, missing envelops and stamps seems their persistent problem. 15 days after I sent the delivery confirmed mail, I called them and asked why I have not received my passport yet. They said "oh, it has been dispatched from here. It should arrive shortly". Okay, I waited for another 10 days and it was not here yet. I enquired with the post office as I had put necessary postage and sticker for a certified mail while sending the self-addressed envelop. Not recieved in the USPS system yet.
I called them for five times to get the right person. Mostly got a rude response - "Pandhra Minet Pachhi Phone Garnus". Finally, I got right person and asked why my passport was not coming yet? "You have not send the envelop" was the reply. Later he promised to look for the enverlop which I sent.
Surprisingly, three days later I got my passport. You know what was the surprise? They had put another three dollar stamps on top of those three dollars stamps I put in the self-addressed envelop. Does it take six dollars to send a certified mail? May be they sent overnight delivery which I can't be sure ha ha..............
Anyway, I am happy, they helped me to get a new passport.
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| Parakhi |
Posted
on 22-Apr-02 10:43 AM
I have much bitter experience with some non-nepali offices and companies. I think our folks will improve themselves if we pass our comments to them than keeping silent as an individual.
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| SIWALIK |
Posted
on 22-Apr-02 12:48 PM
1. Let's all send email to the ambassador! Let's suggest internal investigation to improve things and punish those who have been stealing money.
2. Let's have some volunteers to write letters to TKP, The Rising Nepal, People's Review, New Times etc.
3. I volunteer to write an opinion piece and find a suitable outlet for it.
Let's complete this within the next two to three weeks!
Any other suggestions?
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| A satisfied customer |
Posted
on 22-Apr-02 01:31 PM
I have renewed my passport numerous times and have also called the Embassy numerous times with questions and I have never experienced any problems whatsoever. I don't know what you guys are talking about. Sounds like a nightmare to me!
A satisfied customer.
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| loverboy |
Posted
on 22-Apr-02 03:35 PM
Lets steer back the discussion related to topic..
Rather than rambling our opinions, I think it would be great if we could have specific experiences we can compile and file a complaint...through media will be highly effective.
If somebody has positive thing to say go for it...
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| jagatdogg |
Posted
on 22-Apr-02 05:50 PM
I completely agree with everyone that is for having a united voice to improve the conditions of the embassy. It is a crucial part of our renewal process for passports. Beyond that, an embassy is a body of diplomatic representatives that need to provide us with reliable information while working efficiently and effectively FOR their constituency. Perhaps, government staff have forgotten their role? They are hired for the purpose of providing service to the people of a specific country. Having recently been in Nepal (just over a month ago), I am reminded about the ineffectiveness of Nepali beauracracy. Rude staff beginning at KTM airport, rude and disrespectful staff at the citizenship office, and every other government related office I visited in a 3 week span. That's probably why the embassy staff here in the US feel they can do the same. They have no checks and balances and are running amok as they would in Nepal. It's time for a grass roots effort from Nepalis all over the US to get together on this issue and hope that we can change the attitudes of people who are supposedly put in place to assist the people of Nepal.
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| amilo |
Posted
on 22-Apr-02 07:22 PM
Today, I was pleasantly surprised to see my passport in my mailbox. And to add to my suprise, it didn't have any visible errors.
When I talked to the guy at the emabssy last week, he clearly stated that he had not worked on my passport. Is there not a way (hint: a database) of keeping track of the passports they renwed. Or maybe they should take courtesy 101 class.
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| mahamurkha |
Posted
on 22-Apr-02 10:20 PM
I have recently renewed my passpost just 4 months ago. I visited DC office and submitted application along with GREEN Dollar "Bitto" in cash, along with my wife's application in their hand.There is a "ukkhan", "Paisa dekhe pachhi, mahadev ko pany tin netra". So, I told them, I came from BOSTON and need to return tommorrow. So, I need them as soon as possible. They told me, come tommorrow after 3:00 PM. I told them, I need them earliar than 3:00 PM. They said, they can't delivery before 3:00 o'clock or they will mail them through POST later. Then we agreed to go over at 3:00 PM. We went there, they were already working on our PP. Only PP need to be Stamped. So, it tooks about 5 minutes, then done. Well, give them very strong thanks with some conversation. In fact, I saw, they have plenty of works, not only renewing Nepalese's PP, they have many foreigner's PP for visa stamp. So, per my experience, they have very few staffs - just two people. However, job load is comparatively more because, what I had seen by my own eyes. Additionally, after all they are "Sarkari Karmachari"
--- Mahamurkha
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| F R E E E K |
Posted
on 23-Apr-02 01:25 PM
Well.. My experience is not bitter one, but i really appriciate the way my Passport had been taken care of.
It was ofcourse really hard to find the website with the form. There were bunch of nepali website related to nothing about nepal, but not one related to passport. Took me hours to finally find one. And i decided id send my passport to NY, since i am closer to NY.
Anyway, according to the instruction, i send form, 2 copies of pic, and $60 money order. Few days later, I got a call from NY embassy (they bothered to call me).. and the guy who was talking on the phone was friendly. I had a nice talk with him. He was worried more than i was worried about my passport. He told me i needed one more pic, and also told me, the way i sent my money order was not appropriate, and i should rather send it by post office(postal money order) with about 5 bucks extra for returning my passport. Which i did.I told him the website said 2 pics, so i sent 2 pics, and he was pissed with people in DC for messing up everything.
He also told me my passport will go on process after they recieve everything and it migh take a week. I said okay. and after few weeks i got my both old and new passport, nicely wrapped up in a paper, both attached together. And ofcourse, hand writing was also better than my previous passport. I was pretty much satisfied with the result, since i had not expected it would go that smooth. It did.
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| FREEEK again |
Posted
on 23-Apr-02 01:31 PM
By the way, don't think $5 extra was a bribe. That was for returning my passport thru mail. Mailing cost was almost $4. And nobody takes $1 bribe. I have all praise for NY Embassy. I know a guy who went to NYcity in the morning and got his Passport back the same evening. And i don't think he is the one who would show GREEEN dollars to get his things done.
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| makuro |
Posted
on 23-Apr-02 02:36 PM
My experiece with Embassy is super. I wish our Embassies all around World accord the same kind of service and friendliness to everybody.
Last year my family in Nepal needed some official paper from me that I need to prepare thru embassy. I went to Emabassy in Washington DC and explained my situation to them. They helped me prepare the paper with great service. My paper I needed to produce has to be written in Nepali Kagaj. They provided both paper and format. I was very pleased the way they accorded the services.
Ofcourse 'Hawa nachali paat haladaina'. Just because I had a good experiece with Embassy doesn't mean the complain here registered are not to be taken seriously.
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| makuro |
Posted
on 23-Apr-02 02:36 PM
My experiece with Embassy is super. I wish our Embassies all around World accord the same kind of service and friendliness to everybody.
Last year my family in Nepal needed some official paper from me that I need to prepare thru embassy. I went to Emabassy in Washington DC and explained my situation to them. They helped me prepare the paper with great service. My paper I needed to produce has to be written in Nepali Kagaj. They provided both paper and format. I was very pleased the way they accorded the services.
Ofcourse 'Hawa nachali paat haladaina'. Just because I had a good experiece with Embassy doesn't mean the complain here registered are not to be taken seriously.
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| Huri |
Posted
on 23-Apr-02 04:11 PM
How much does it really cost for passport renewal. Last year I paid $75 and thought that it was too much. But here, some of you guys seem to have apid less than what I had to pay. Is it that I got ripped off or is it that you guys got the better deal?
And I personally think $75 is a bit too much.
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| Raja |
Posted
on 24-Apr-02 01:02 PM
Hello All:
I am satisfied with the performance of Nepali Embassy in Washington DC. In spite of very few staffs and heavy work load their performace is comparitively far better. You cant expect they could provide same customer service that you get from your cabal company or telephone or credit card company.
If you are good to them, they are good to you.
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| KOKO |
Posted
on 24-Apr-02 02:09 PM
Y'all who live around DC have special connection to the embassy. Those who do not have the source force their passports will be processed at snail pace. But those with inside connection PRESTO!!! iTS PRETTY OBVIOUS. The good old Nepali way. So the Formula is
No connection(source force)=Nada passport
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| LOL@KoKo |
Posted
on 24-Apr-02 03:39 PM
Move to dc pal.
>Y'all who live around DC have special
>connection to the embassy. Those who do not
>have the source force their passports will
>be processed at snail pace. But those with
>inside connection PRESTO!!! iTS PRETTY
>OBVIOUS. The good old Nepali way. So the
>Formula is
>
> No
>connection(source force)=Nada passport
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| Vivashme |
Posted
on 03-May-02 12:24 PM
News about Nepali Embassy in DC on Jansatha.
http://www.nepalnews.com.np/contents/nepaliweekly/janastha/2002/may/may01/mainnews.htm#11
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| nepali2 |
Posted
on 03-May-02 02:24 PM
It Sucks
There are hundreds of nepali are homeless and our embassy in DC buying new house, because our new emabassador( relative of Mr. Deuba ) can get big sum of commission out of it. Same on you guys. They have nice residence right now, I guess he forget himself that he represents one of the poorest country.
Concern Nepali
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