Nepali is the official language of Nepal and also an official language in the Indian state of Sikkim. Many of the people who need Nepali documents in English are students going abroad, most often to Japan, the UK, Australia and the U.S. For a visa, students and the parents sponsoring them are often asked for a citizenship certificate, birth registration certificate, relationship certificate, tax clearance certificate and land ownership certificate, each with an English version. Relationship certificates, four-boundary certificates and documents like them are issued by the local ward (वडा) office or the municipality. People living abroad whose families still hold land in Nepal also need to read what the land ownership certificate says. Once the English is in place, the ward office's seal, reference number and signatures look just as they did.
Dates on Nepali official documents are usually in the Bikram Sambat calendar (वि.सं.), such as २०८१/०५/१२, the 12th day of the 5th month of 2081. The Bikram Sambat new year falls in mid-April, and the year number is 56 or 57 ahead of the Gregorian one, depending on whether the date falls before or after the new year. Month lengths are not fixed either: each month has 29 to 32 days, varying from year to year, so an accurate conversion means looking up that year's official calendar. Land ownership certificates give areas in traditional units. In the hills these are रोपनी, आना, पैसा and दाम, with 1 रोपनी equal to 16 आना; in the southern plains (Terai) they are बिघा, कट्ठा and धुर, with 20 कट्ठा to 1 बिघा. English has no equivalents for these units, so before converting to square meters, check which system the original uses.
These are the Nepali-language documents people most often translate to English — each keeps its original layout, seals, and tables.
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Don't rely on the translation for that. Dates in the English version may stay in Bikram Sambat or have their order changed, and even if you see a Gregorian date, don't use it as is. Where a visa form asks for Gregorian dates, convert them yourself using Nepal's official calendar for that year, then check them against the original once more.
Not as it is; it is there to help you understand and check the documents. Embassies and schools usually require a certified translation, and some cases also call for attestation by Nepal's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Our English version follows the original layout, with names, relationships and numbers in their original positions in the table, so once you have the certified translation you can compare the two item by item. For your own name and your parents' names, go by the passport spelling. If all you have is a phone photo, rescan the page to PDF with your phone's scanner app, upload it in your phone's browser and download the translated PDF.
In our tests, a figure standing alone in a table cell, such as ४५, sometimes stayed in Devanagari, while figures in running text were written as Arabic numerals. Check the tax amount on a tax clearance certificate and the area and numbers on a land ownership certificate against the original one by one. Handwritten additions and signatures are not read reliably, so check those yourself.
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