With the process to obtain labour permit going digital, the obligation to queue for hours on end along with the subsequent hassles for the same has supposedly ended. However, lack of awareness and some other problems have come as a worrisome matter. 

Failure to effectively implement of the new system and short of coordination between concerned banks, the Ministry of Labour and Employment (MoLE), Home Ministry and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) have added to the matter.
Under the digital system, a foreign employment aspirant is required to open a web account and forward the password to the Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE) for registration and on the basis of his or her account details, the DoFE issues labour permit accordingly. Following this process, the aspirant can fill out the form to acquire a labour permit. The DoFE also requires bank details of the amount to be deposited into the Workers' Welfare Fund under the Foreign Employment Promotion Board (FEPB) and details of health check-up and orientation programmes the aspirant has undergone for the same process.
However, lack of awareness of the process has worsened the situation. For those opting for aboard employment through a  foreign employment company, the concerned company fills up the form itself while those making it to their foreign jobs individually or those returnees who are required to obtain labour permit again are at the receiving end. For the latter category, lack of knowledge of how to fill up the form online is a matter of an urgent concern. Moreover, an intervention of middlepersons like operators of a cyber cafe where aspirants make their way for the service is another problem to resolve.
In case of the forms filled up with the help of a cyber cafe operator, there is always a chance of handling the matter wrongly. Moreover, for the service, money between Rs 700 to Rs 2,000 each is charged.
Ram Bharos Pandit aspiring to go to Saudi Arabia for a job complained that he had to pay Rs 7,300 to a Tahachal-based cyber cafe. He said he was told that the money he paid was meant to cover his insurance premium and the money to be deposited into the Welfare Fund. When the receipt was reviewed it was found that Rs 5,300 has been paid for the insurance while Rs 1,000 had gone to the Welfare Fund. The remaining 1,000 was charged by the cyber operator in the name of filling out the form online.
Some service seekers have also complained that negligence of a bank of not updating the details of the amount to be deposited into the Welfare Fund even hours after the deposition has also created problems. Intervention of middlepersons has gone to the extent that they tend to collect and deposit all amount paid by foreign employment aspirants meant for their insurance premium and the Welfare Fund at once for their own convenience, thus delaying the process further. 
The online system supposed to deliver service in a quick and easy manner has just followed the traditional process, which is why it is not working effectively, claimed Rohan Gurung, General Secretary of the Foreign Association of Foreign Employment Agencies (NAFEA). "We send out all required documents like the details of the demand paper, salary and other facilities entitled to a foreign worker through web. However, original documents are required by the DoFE even thereafter, which turn out to be troublesome," he said.
The need for the DoFE to require original documents of an aspirant even after digitalising the system, it seems, means for creating the room for the DoFE employees to bargain with the foreign employment entrepreneurs, Gurung suspected.
Concerned authorities have a different story to tell however. Secretary of the MoLE Laxman Prasad Mainali claimed that a bunch of problems has been resolved after the process went digital, bar some technical problems that turned up in the first place. Although some employees of the concerned authority and middlepersons tried to fail the system in the beginning, their attempts bit the dust, he claimed.
Homework has also been started through coordination between the MoLE, Home Ministry and the MoFA to systematise the online system and issue labour permit to those already working in foreign countries through the concerned Nepali Embassy there itself, he said. "Preparations have started for the concerned Nepali embassy in a foreign country, the Department of Consular Services, the Department of Immigration, the DoFE and the FEPB to document details of foreign employment aspirants through a common system."
To fill out a form to obtain work permit one has to visit www.dofe.gove.np, the website of the DoFE and click FEIMS Login there. The system was launched last year with the investment of more than Rs 40 million from the Safer Migration Project (SaMi) under the MoLE with financial aid from the Government of Switzerland.