All eight immigration offices TIA have been connected to the central data center which will be curbed from the office of the department’s director general.
It is believed that the digital system will help control smuggling of foreign currency, arms trafficking, human trafficking and other trans-national crimes through abuse of Nepali passports, citizenship certificates, visa, and travel documents.
Kenvin John Hodges, who had came Nepal using fake passport after committing a crime in America, was recently held by applying this technology. The reform program started in April has come into full implementation from the third week of July, according to the department source.