Nepal
Embassy of Finland, Kathmandu
In order to prove the authenticity of a copy of a document, the person seeking authentication must present the original document from which the (photo)copy was made. A photocopy can also be made at the Finnish mission.
Residence permit applications and passport applications: please make an appointment by email visa.kat(at)formin.fi.
Appointment slots for submitting residence permit applications for other purposes than studying are fully booked until the end the current month. To book an appointment for next month, please send an e-mail to [email protected] on the 15th of the month at 8 am Nepali time onwards. Outside these dates, only appointment requests for studying will be taken into account.
Please write on the subject field that the e-mail deals with an appointment request and indicate your application type (for example student, spouse or work). You will be contacted after a few days of having sent the appointment request. Please be patient and do not send enquiries or resend your appointment request. Please indicate also applicant’s name, telephone number, passport number and validity of the passport in your e-mail.
NB! The decisions on applications are made by the Finnish Immigration Service. You can follow the processing queue from www.migri.fi or in Enter Finland.
The Visa section of the Embassy of Finland in Kathmandu is closed from 23 December 2019 until 6 January 2020. VFS will give appointments again from 7 January onwards.
