How to Verify a Nepal Police Clearance for Consular Use

Eligibility

• A person who already has an issued Nepal Police clearance report and whose receiving authority asks for Nepal consular attestation or an attested PCC
• An applicant whose report details, passport or citizenship record can be retrieved through the Department's dedicated PCC portal
• A recipient or applicant who needs to authenticate an already attested PCC using the Department's registration-number checker
• This guide is not the Nepal Police application process; obtain the police report first if it has not yet been issued
• Consular attestation is not automatically required for every visa, job, university or foreign authority. The destination institution decides the acceptable report, age, language and legalization chain

Required documents checklist

• □ The issued Nepal Police clearance report with a readable Dispatch No.; do not begin with only an application receipt
• □ The applicant's date of birth in the AD format requested by the dedicated attestation portal
• □ The passport and citizenship details connected to the police report; the portal displays these for review before submission
• □ A mobile number controlled by the applicant for the application and any rejection message
• □ The destination authority's written requirement showing whether consular attestation, translation, a color print or another legalization step is needed
• □ An official payment method offered on the live page, or the portal-generated bank voucher if paying through Global IME Bank
• □ The Reference No., EBP No., transaction evidence and Dispatch No. saved after the portal creates the application
• □ For authenticity checking after attestation, the Reg. No. printed on the Department-attested police clearance certificate

Step-by-step process

1. Obtain the police clearance report first. If you only have an OPCR application or status message, finish the Nepal Police process before using the consular attestation service.
2. Ask the receiving embassy, employer, university, licensing body or other authority exactly what it accepts. Confirm whether it wants the original electronic report, Department of Consular Services attestation, a translation, destination-embassy legalization, a recent issue date or a color print.
3. Read the issued report before paying anything. Check the name, passport number, citizenship details, date of birth, Dispatch No. and result. The Department's dedicated portal says to obtain a new police report if its details are wrong.
4. Open the Department of Consular Services service list and follow its Police Clearance Report Attestation link to the dedicated attestation portal. The Department currently lists this PCC service separately from its general NEATS document-attestation service.
5. Read and accept the portal instruction, complete the captcha, enter the PCC Dispatch No. and the applicant's date of birth in AD, then retrieve the report.
6. Compare the displayed police report, passport and citizenship records with the source documents. Stop if another person appears, a key field is wrong or the expected documents are missing. Paying does not correct a mismatched report.
7. Enter the applicant-controlled mobile number and continue. Save the Reference No. and EBP No. shown by the portal, and note the live Amount before choosing payment.
8. Pay only through a gateway or bank route offered on the official page. The current instructions name ConnectIPS, Khalti and eSewa through RMIS, and a Global IME Bank voucher route. If paying from a mobile app, return to the portal and use Verify Payment as instructed.
9. Do not treat a debit message as submission. Continue until the portal displays that the payment was verified and the application was submitted successfully. If verification initially fails, the official instruction says to wait two to three minutes and try the verification step again; contact the payment provider if it still does not reconcile.
10. Keep the Reference No., Dispatch No. and payment evidence. The current portal says that, after Department verification, the attested PCC can be downloaded after one working day by entering the Reference No. and Dispatch No. Print the verified download in color if the receiving authority requires that format.
11. If a rejection SMS arrives, correct the underlying police-report mismatch or follow the Department's instruction. Do not repeatedly pay for the same wrong record without understanding the rejection.
12. For a recipient-side authenticity check, use the Department's Attested Police Clearance Certificate Verification page and enter the Reg. No. printed on the attested document. This checker is for Department-attested certificates from 6 August 2023 onward.
13. After verification, follow any remaining destination-country step separately. Department attestation confirms the Nepal-side document process; it does not guarantee that a foreign authority will waive translation, embassy legalization, apostille-equivalent steps or its own recency rule.

Fees and timelines

• The dedicated portal displays the current Amount only after it retrieves the report and creates the application. This guide does not publish a fixed fee because the live official amount is the safer source.
• The Department's current instruction says an attested PCC can be downloaded after one working day when the application and report are verified. Treat this as service guidance, not a guarantee for a mismatched record, failed payment, rejection, closure or system outage.
• A payment debit is not the same as verified submission. Keep the EBP No. and transaction reference, and use the portal's verification step before paying again.
• Translation, notarization, destination-embassy handling, courier and foreign-authority charges are separate from the Department's PCC attestation amount. Buy only the steps the receiving authority names.
• A receiving authority may impose its own report-age or filing deadline. The Department's portal does not make one universal police-clearance validity period for every destination.

Common mistakes

• Trying to attest an OPCR application receipt instead of an issued police clearance report
• Assuming every overseas submission requires consular attestation
• Entering the Nepali calendar date when the portal asks for date of birth in AD
• Continuing after the retrieved passport, citizenship or report details do not match
• Failing to save the Reference No. and EBP No. before leaving the page
• Treating a bank debit or wallet receipt as proof that the application was submitted
• Paying the same EBP twice before using Verify Payment or contacting the gateway
• Using the general document-attestation route without checking the Department's dedicated PCC service link
• Confusing the Dispatch No. used for application retrieval with the Reg. No. used to verify the final attested certificate
• Uploading or emailing identity documents to an unofficial agent or look-alike domain
• Assuming Nepal-side attestation guarantees acceptance, translation or validity for every destination

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