Nepali Embassy has been established in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. The embassy said that it has started providing services by operating a temporary office in Alcantara in Lisbon. The Nepali Embassy in Lisbon has started providing 'consular' services related to the authentication of necessary documents including passports by operating a mobile service in collaboration with the Nepali Embassy in France.

According to the embassy, ​​the mobile service that started on Friday has started providing verification services for around 200 documents including police character certificate (police report). Throughout the camp period, the embassy will provide consular services for document verification, including police character certificate, proof of relationship, birth certificate, marriage registration, and other documents except for the verification of the authorized waresna. 

Similarly, the embassy said that the prepared passports will be distributed to the clients who applied for electronic passports from the previously conducted mobile camps, while the biological data of the clients who could not get their passports ready due to various reasons will be collected again. . 

With the aim of facilitating the Nepalese who are facing problems related to document verification, the Nepali Embassy in Lisbon has started providing urgent services related to passport and other document verification by operating a mobile service for the time being  Acting Ambassador Rambabu Nepal gave the information. Stating that all services will be provided from the Nepali Embassy in Lisbon as soon as possible, he asked the Portuguese Nepalis to be patient as it will take some time.

'We have started providing services by establishing an embassy in Lisbon . For now, a temporary office has been operated,' said Nepal, 'a building is being searched for the permanent office of the embassy and the residence of the staff. Being a new embassy, ​​we are also working on internal preparations and management.' 

The newly appointed Nepalese Ambassador to Portugal Prakashmani Poudel will come to Portugal within a few days and after that the Acting Ambassador of Nepal will provide all services. According to him, with the start of consular services, Nepalese customers who have problems related to verification of police character certificates and other documents have been flocking to the embassy premises.

The embassy has said that it will provide services related to verification of police character certificate, birth certificate, proof of kinship, marriage registration and other documents certified by Consular Service Department Kathmandu. Sita Basnet, Deputy Chief of Mission of the Nepali Embassy in France, Anil Rana, Third Secretary of the Nepali Embassy in Lisbon, and other staff have been deployed in the traveling service. The embassy has said that it will provide mobile services until February 26, i.e., February 14, and after that it will provide its regular services .

After a long time, the Nepali people living in Portugal are excited after the establishment of the Nepali embassy here. The Portuguese-Nepalese, who have been facing problems related to passports and documents for a long time due to the lack of an embassy, ​​have finally said that it has become easier with the establishment of the embassy. 

After the establishment of the embassy, ​​the compulsion to go to Spain, France and other countries where Nepalese embassies are located has ended. Although there is no exact statistics of Nepalese in Portugal, the embassy estimates that there are around 60,000.