The Department of Passport is a government agency of Nepal assigned with the responsibilities of issuing Passports to the Nepalese citizens and Travel Documents to the legally applicable persons under Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

[2][3] Until 31 March 2010, Nepal still issued hand-written Passports.

However, as a member of International Civil Aviation Organization, Nepal was obliged to issue machine-readable passports.

On 26 December 2010, the Office introduced machine-readable passports and issued them thereafter.

[4] As of 2021, Nepal began issuing E-passport to replace the Machine-readable passport.