Walk five minutes in any direction from Kumaripati chowk and you will pass a dozen education consultancies. Every one of them has a signboard saying it is the best. None of those signboards contains any information.
We are one of the dozen, so take what follows accordingly. But the four questions below are checkable, they work on us as well as on anybody else, and since July 2026 the law is on your side when you ask them.
1. May I see the written agreement before I pay anything?
This is the one that separates everybody.
Under the Educational Consultancy, Language and Preparation Classes Regulations 2026, a consultancy must sign a written agreement with you before it provides any service. That agreement has to set out the consultancy fee, the firm's own registration details, the admission conditions, the scholarship provisions and the refund policy.
Not a receipt afterwards. An agreement first, naming what happens to your money if things go wrong.
Ask to see the blank one on your first visit. An office that has it ready has thought about the answer. An office that says it will sort that out later has told you something.
2. What is your fee, and what does it cover?
Fee disclosure is now required in public. A consultancy that will not name a figure until you are already committed has stopped complying with the rule that exists precisely to prevent that.
Ask for the number, then ask the harder question: what is inside it. Does it cover one application or five? Does it cover the visa file, or is that separate? What happens to it if the visa is refused?
Ours are published here, including the parts we are still confirming and the fact that institutions pay us commission.
3. What is your bank account number?
Every transaction now has to go through the banking system. Cash is out.
This is the single most useful line in the regulation, and it is worth understanding why rather than just following it. Cash is what makes a dispute unwinnable. Six months later, when there is disagreement about what was paid and what it covered, the party with no bank record loses, and that party is always the student.
Asking for an account number is not suspicion. It is the only version of the transaction that either of you can check afterwards.
4. What is your registration number with the Ministry of Education?
Consultancies now register federally with MoEST, lodge a Rs 2.5 million deposit and renew annually. The ministry is also grading every registered firm A, B or C on student outcomes, service quality and complaint volume, and publishing the grades on its own website.
That grading will be uncomfortable for a lot of offices in this city, and it should be. It is the first time a Nepali student will be able to compare two consultancies on something other than the size of their signboard.
Ask for the number. Then go and check it.
What we would add
Two things that are not in the regulation but tell you as much.
Ask what the refusal rate is for the country you are interested in. Not their success rate, the country's refusal rate. Four in five American student visa applications from Nepal were refused last year, and around two in three Australian ones. A counsellor who does not know that, or who tells you it does not apply to you, either has not read the numbers or is hoping you have not. Ours are on the homepage with the source under each one.
Ask what happens if they think you should not apply. Some applications should not be made. An office that has never talked a student out of one is an office that is selling applications rather than advice.
And about us
We are new. We would rather say that than imply a legacy we do not have.
What we can show you instead of a founding date is the work. Every figure on this site links to the government department or the newspaper it came from, with the date we last checked it, and the ones we have not confirmed are listed on a page of their own. The rules in this sector changed twice in 2026. Being new mostly means having read them.
Come to Kumaripati and ask us the four questions. If the answers are not good enough, ask them at the next office along.