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TREATIES AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL ACTS SERIES 12856

EMPLOYMENT 

Agreement Between the 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

and NEPAL

Effected by Exchange of Notes 

Dated at Washington December 19, 1996

and May 13, 1997
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NOTE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Pursuant to Public Law 89–497, approved July 8, 

1966 (80 Stat. 271; 1 U.S.C. 113)—

‘‘. . . the Treaties and Other International Acts Series issued 

under the authority of the Secretary of State shall be competent 

evidence . . . of the treaties, international agreements other than 

treaties, and proclamations by the President of such treaties and 

international agreements other than treaties, as the case may be, 

therein contained, in all the courts of law and equity and of 

maritime jurisdiction, and in all the tribunals and public offices 

of the United States, and of the several States, without any further proof or authentication thereof.’’

For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, 

Washington, D.C. 20402
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(1) TIAS 12856

NEPAL 

Employment 

Agreement effected by exchange of notes 

Dated at Washington December 19, 1996 and 

May 13, 1997; 

Entered into force May 13, 1997.
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1TIAS 7502; 23 UST 3227. 

2TIAS 6900; 21 UST 1418. 

The Department of State to the Nepalese Embassy

The Department of State proposes to the Royal Nepalese Embassy that, on 

a reciprocal basis, dependents of employees of the United States Government 

assigned to official duty in the Kingdom of Nepal and dependents of employees 

of His Majesty’s Government of Nepal assigned to official duty in the United 

States be authorized to be employed in the receiving state. 

For the purposes of this agreement, 

"Dependents" shall mean: 

Spouses; 

Unmarried dependent children under 21 years of age; 

Unmarried dependent children under 23 years of age who are in full-time 

attendance as students at a post-secondary educational institution; and 

Unmarried children who are physically or mentally disabled. 

For the purposes of this agreement, "official employees" shall mean diplomatic agents, consular officers, and members of support staffs, assigned to diplomatic missions, consular offices and missions to international organizations. 

In the case of dependents who seek employment in the United States, an 

official request must be made to the Office of Protocol in the Department of 

State. After the processing of the official request, the Royal Nepalese Embassy 

will be informed that the dependent may accept employment. 

In the case of dependents who seek employment in the Kingdom of Nepal, 

an official request must be made to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After the 

processing of the official request, the United States Embassy will be informed 

that the dependent may accept employment. 

The United States Government and His Majesty’s Government of Nepal 

wish to confirm their understanding that dependents who obtain employment 

under this agreement and who have immunity from the jurisdiction of the 

receiving state in accordance with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 1 or the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United 

Nations,2 or any other applicable international agreement, have no immunity 
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from civil and administrative jurisdiction with respect to matters arising out of 

such employment. Such dependents are also responsible for payment of income 

and social security taxes on any remuneration received as a result of employment 

in the receiving state. Dependents continue to enjoy all other privileges and 

immunities to which they are entitled. 

The Department of State further proposes that, if these provisions are 

acceptable to His Majesty’s Government of Nepal, this note and His Majesty’s 

Government of Nepal’s reply concurring herein shall constitute an agreement 

between the two governments which shall enter into force on the date of that 

reply note. This agreement shall remain in force until ninety days after the date 

of the written notification from either government to the other of intention to 

terminate.

Kendall B. Montgomery

Department of State, 

Washington, December 19, 1996.
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1 For text of the U.S. note, see pp. 2-3. 

The Nepalese Embassy to the Department of State

ROYAL NEPALESE EMBASSY 

2131 LEROY PLACE, N. W. 

WASHINGTON, D. C. 20008

May 13, 1997

The Royal Nepalese Embassy presents its compliments to the Department 

of State and has the honor to acknowledge receipt of the latter’s note of 

December 19, 1996 proposing that the dependents of employees of His Majesty’s 

Government of Nepal assigned to official duty in the United States and dependents of employees of the United States Government assigned to official duty in 

Nepal be authorized, on a reciprocal basis, to be employed in the receiving state. 

A copy of the said note is attached herewith.1

The Royal Nepalese Embassy has the honour to further confirm that the 

contents of the note are acceptable in entirety to His Majesty’s Government of 

Nepal. 

The Royal Nepalese Embassy avails itself of this opportunity to renew to 

the Department of State the assurances of its highest consideration.

Department of State 

Washington, DC 20520