• How to apply for a visa to Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China (TAR)?

Travelers to TAR are required to get a group visa. You must choose a qualified travel agency in Kathmandu , they may help you join a group and make all necessary arrangements.

• Is it possible to get individual visa to TAR?

Individual tourist visa to TAR is not available. You have to apply for a group visa to TAR through travel agencies, but group visa could be consisted one person or more.

• How to get a group visa to TAR if there is a valid visa to Mainland China in the passport?

A group visa is still required even if there is a valid visa to Mainland China in the passport. The group visa to TAR can only be applied through a travel agency. When the travel agency submits your passport to the Embassy, the visa to Mainland China will be canceled and a group tour visa issued instead without charge of ordinary fee.

• How to make arrangements to visit TAR and other places of China?

You may choose a qualified travel agency in Kathmandu, they will help in applying for a group visa and arrange tour guide, transportation, hotel, etc. If you will make further trip to other place of China, you have to change the group visa to another travel permit in the office from the Bureau of Public Security, Lhasa, and the capital city of TAR. Your further traveling cross TAR to inland China can only be by air.

• How to apply for a visa to Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR)?

The Chinese Embassy can only issue visas to Hong Kong for business and government-to-government purpose for Nepali citizens. A recommendation letter from one of the following 5 organizations support the first business trip to Hong Kong: 1.Federation Of Nepalese Chambers Of Commerce And Industry. 2. Nepal Foreign Trade Association 3.The Nepal Chamber Of Commerce 4.Nepal Trans Himalayan Border Trade Association. 5. Nepal Trans-Himalayan Trade Association.

A trip of government-to-government purpose will be based on Official Notes from relevant Governmental Organs.

Transit to third countries via Hong Kong, you will apply for a transit visa directly from DANFE TRAVEL CENTER (just opposite the Embassy), and there must be a existent visa in the passport issued by the third country related.

If you enter in Hong Kong for employment, education (training), conference, residence, ID card, tourism, sports, visiting relatives, you should apply a visa directly from Hong Kong immigration Department. You can have direct postal application or submission through a sponsor in Hong Kong.

You need complete visa application forms (forms can be downloaded from www.info.gov.hk/immd), including the item of particulars of sponsor/employer in Hong Kong, a photocopy of the applicant's travel document and date of issue and expiry of the travel document together with the relevant supporting documents and post to the Hong Kong Immigration Department or directly applying through a local sponsor. The address is: Employment and Visit Visa Section, 24/F, Immigration Tower, 7 Gloucester Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong. Application submitted by fax/e-mail is unacceptable.

Application fees in Hong Kong currency HK$135, in the form a cashier order or bank draft, should be sent with the application. The cashier order or bank draft should be issued by a bank, which has a connected bank in HK and made payable to “The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region”. No cash should be sent with the application. For applications submitted through a sponsor in HK, payment of fees can be made either in cash or by cheque by the sponsor in HK when collecting the visa label. If you are qualified, Hong Kong Immigration Department will mail a visa to you or to your sponsor, then you paste the visa on a blank visa page of your passport and you may start your trip to Hong Kong.

If you have any enquiries or need more about information about application procedure, please contact the HK Immigration Department on telephone (852)28246111, by fax at (852)28777711, or through e-mail at enquiry@immmd.gov.hk .