Nepal’s Department of Foreign Employment recorded nearly 16,000 fraud complaints over five years, with the shift increasingly toward individual fraudsters rather than registered companies — a pattern worth understanding before you start.
The Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE), under the Ministry of Labour, governs overseas recruitment under the Foreign Employment Act. DoFE has specifically warned that educational consultancies, travel agencies, and online platforms are increasingly operating as unauthorised foreign-employment businesses — naming these categories directly as recent offenders, not just generic “agencies.”
Honestly: no public online licence-lookup tool comparable to India’s eMigrate or Kenya’s NEAIMS was confirmed for Nepal. Get the agency’s licence number and confirm it directly with DoFE in Kathmandu — by phone or in person — rather than assuming an online checker exists.
A 2016 reform renamed Nepal’s Grade-10 exam “SEE” and reassigned the older name “SLC” to the Grade-12 exam — so “SLC” means different things depending on whether your certificate predates or postdates that change. A genuinely common source of confusion when your documents get evaluated.