Company registration in Nepal is document-driven. OCR doesn't assess your business idea — it assesses your paperwork, and even experienced founders trip up on requirements that seem minor until they cause a rejection.
Documents every applicant needs
Citizenship certificates or passports for all shareholders and directors, passport-size photos for each of them, a proposed company name with two or three backup options in case your first choice is taken, registered office address details, and a clear statement of proposed business objectives and share structure.
The MOA and AOA
The Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association are the core legal documents defining your company's objectives, capital structure, and internal governance rules. These need to be drafted specifically to match your actual shareholding and business plans — a generic template copied from another company's filing is one of the more common causes of OCR queries, since inconsistencies between the stated objectives and the rest of the application draw scrutiny.
Additional requirements for foreign investment
If there's any foreign shareholding involved, expect additional layers: foreign investment approval where applicable, authorization for a local representative if the foreign promoter isn't resident in Nepal, and closer documentation review generally. This is the single biggest source of delays for foreign-backed applications — missing even one supporting paper here can add weeks to the timeline.
The specific errors that cause rejections
OCR's rejection patterns are fairly consistent: company names that don't match exactly between the MOA and the application form, missing National ID numbers for any shareholder or director, and documents that are uploaded unsigned. None of these are complex legal problems — they're checklist problems, which is exactly why they're so avoidable with a careful review before submission.
Before you upload anything
Cross-check every name, number, and address across every document for consistency. A single-character mismatch between how a director's name appears on their citizenship document versus the MOA is enough to trigger a query — see our full registration guide for the complete checklist. on their citizenship document versus the MOA is enough to trigger a query — and every query adds processing time you didn't need to spend.
