Throwback Post on Applying to US

Four years ago around this time I was applying to colleges or getting rejected by them. After that during my student visa process, I took the hassle given by Nepali government offices into a rant. So this post was written then and I can't help but laugh at this, especially now that I'd like to think of myself as a good governance and civil service enthusiast.

There are some misspellings because this was an informal thing shared in Facebook notes, so apologies. Also it is geared towards people in Nepal, so there's a lot of roman Nepali script here.

Enjoy and learn, also, things might have changed, specially the costs/rates of those forms and signatures!

things i want my children/sisters to learn

_sarkari offices in nepal suck,,,don't expect them to do things on time...not at all
_always spell check,,,they sometimes write: Mr. Miss together before name, they some times put ur  name as wife of your father instead of 'daughter'
_they turn Ms. to Mrs.
_they dont tell u very clearly what stuffs you need, and in every next step to make a document, u will have to run back home to bring the required certificate

_for naata pramanit u need:

•  2 pp-size pics of each natedar, dont forget to spell their names correclty in english. 
•  they also need citizenship certificates of all members, orignial and photocopy  
• Most importantly, they need the proof of your tax payment bill. its called ghar jagga kar nidharan something bill. its not like the regular bills at the departmental store. u go to ur own ward office aka, odaa karyalaya (total to be paid Rs. 200 ho ki Rs. 205)

_ for police report:

•  if u r lucky u need to pay Rs150. if ur not its Rs 200! :P ..
• for that, go to the pasal that fills the form in Chakrapath by the Police HQ. 
• they need  passport and citizensip certificate. u need not take copies coz they'll make those copies. they have the machiine. they make 2 copies of each document.so they make the document for u, u need to check it very thoroughly to avoid above mistakes. 
• then they send u to sign the paper to the wakil. who asks u watcha studying and all n signs it.
•  then u go to the police office compound(chakrapath or ratnapark only). 
• u go to 'report form bujaune' place there. 
• there u show the documents, original certificate n passport too. 
• and then he check ur docu/verifies.
•  then u pay five rupees to the other man and sign his register 
• n he gives u a slip which u r suposed to bring it  the next sunday or friday. whichever comes first to get the proper report
• (dang that's long)...time limit: may be 1 hour

_aru lekhnai jhau lago chya,,,,

_umm for no objection letter

• atti nai lamo cha,,take u upto 3 hours i think . 
•  you have to go to edu ministry, kesar mahal.. 
• tesko lagi documents chai latest transcipt ra citizenship.also photcopies-1 each. 
• 2000 rupees. 
• time :go there before 11:15 AM...
• tei gaera form bharda huncha. 
• form approve bhaera paisa tireko half an hour mabancha re.
•  malai chai load shedding ko karan le one and half hour kurnuparo.

_ugghh lekhna ni jhau lagney!