How to extend a tourist visa in Nepal?

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If your visiting Nepal on a tourist visit and your visa expired, you need to get your visa extended timely. Otherwise, you will be subjected to fines. You need to fill an online application through the website of the Department of Immigration. (http://online.nepalimmigration.gov.np/tourist-visa) and visit the concerned office for visa extension.

Where to visit?
Department of Immigration at Kalikasthan, Kathmandu.

Documents required:
Passport
Receipt of online application
Tax clearance certificate in case of transfer from business visa to tourist visa.
Copy of passport of guardian in case of minors below 10 years of age.

Charge:
Minimum USD 45 for up to 15 days.
An additional USD three per day for more than 15 days.
In case of late application, a late fee of USD five is charged for each day after the visa expiry.
For minors below 10 years of age, except US passport holders, no cost is imposed.

Discount to be entertained in case of:

Diplomatic officials – To be approved by the Foreign Ministry.

Participants in any assembly, programs, training, meetings, conventions organized by Nepal Government, Nepal Government-owned bodies, the United Nations, Regional organizations, or any International Organization and bodies under it. – To be approved by the Foreign Ministry.

Reputed persons of friendly states. – To be approved by the Foreign Ministry.

Persons having a foreign passport under 16 years of age born from a Nepali parent. – Director-General of the Department of Immigration.

Person of Nepali origin having received a foreign passport from an embassy in Nepal who is yet to leave the country. – To be approved by the Director-General of the Department of Immigration.

Persons who are unable to leave Nepal after their flights have been canceled till their next flights. – To be approved by the Immigration Officer.

Persons who are forced to stay in Nepal after their visa deadline is overdue due to unforeseen conditions. – To be approved by the Director-General or Immigration Officer of the Department of Immigration for an extension of one week and by the Home Ministry for an extension of more than a week.