{"question":{"passport":"BTN","destination":"BGD","entryDate":"2026-09-12"},"dateBasis":"reference-date","status":"allowed","headline":"Visa-free, 90 days","requirement":{"kind":"none","message":"You can travel without arranging a visa."},"stay":{"kind":"DAYS","maxDays":90,"ruleType":"RESETS_ON_EXIT","phrasing":"You may stay up to 90 days."},"conditions":[{"kind":"ENTRY_REQUIREMENT","text":"A passport valid for three months after departure is required of all travellers, per the article immediately above the exemption list."}],"caveat":null,"source":{"documentId":"caab-aip-gen-all","url":"http://new.caab.gov.bd/aip/general/genall.pdf","passage":"1.1.3    Visa: Required by all except the following: … (a)         Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Bhutan, Dominica, Fiji, Gambia, , Grenada, Guinea-Bissau, Jamaica, … Guyana, Honduras, Lesotho, Malawi, Maldives, Montserrat, Papua New Guinea, St Kitts & Nevis, St … Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Uruguay, Vatican City and … Zambia for stays of up to 90 days.","explanation":"Article 1.1.3 of the state's own Aeronautical Information Publication states who needs no visa at all, and its first limb is a list of twenty-four states whose nationals are admitted for stays of up to 90 days. The blocks are the head of the article and the four lines of the list, quoted in order; the doubled comma after Gambia is in the stored text. Every issuer on this row is named in that list by its own name, and the stay is stated in the same list: 'up to 90 days', so ninety is the ceiling and the operator is 'up to', not 'more than'. The document is the compiled AIP served from the Civil Aviation Authority's own site as amended to amendment 02/26, and the GEN 1.3 pages in it are dated 2 December 2021, which is the authority's current statement of the same list that its 2016 amendment carried. Most of these issuers sit on the arrival-visa rows as well; that entitlement is kept on its own row and is not compared here, because a national who needs no visa and one who may obtain one on arrival are two different answers and both are in the instruments.","publisher":"CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY"},"checkedAt":"2026-08-29","snapshotAsOf":"2026-09-10","dataVersion":"4f66864a7d4f8a08b6c8c7e446d7f16addcd9303","upcomingChange":null,"alternatives":[{"headline":"Travel authorisation, 30 days","conditions":[{"kind":"ENTRY_REQUIREMENT","text":"The traveller must carry details of accommodation in Bangladesh and a return air ticket."},{"kind":"PROCEDURE","text":"Election observers and military or security personnel travelling to Bangladesh must contact the Embassy of Bangladesh in Thimphu to complete the necessary formalities prior to travel. Every other holder of a Bhutanese passport is not within this requirement."},{"kind":"PROCEDURE","text":"The application for the on-arrival visa must be submitted online through the Special Branch's own portal at least 72 hours before travel; the applicant then prints the VoA 'Acknowledgement Receipt' issued on the 'On-arrival Visa Application Approved' notification and must present the hard copy at the visa-on-arrival counter at the airport."},{"kind":"OTHER","text":"Bhutan also holds a second and better entitlement under the same instrument that granted this row's neighbours: the Civil Aviation Authority's AIP article 1.1.3 names Bhutan among the states whose nationals need no visa at all for stays of up to 90 days, and that grant is recorded on row aip-visa-exempt. Both grants stand; this one is the arrival-visa route the Bhutanese foreign ministry describes, the other is exemption from the visa requirement altogether."}],"source":{"documentId":"btm-mfa-notification","url":"https://www.mfa.gov.bt/%f0%9d%90%8d%f0%9d%90%8e%f0%9d%90%93%f0%9d%90%88%f0%9d%90%85%f0%9d%90%88%f0%9d%90%82%f0%9d%90%80%f0%9d%90%93%f0%9d%90%88%f0%9d%90%8e%f0%9d%90%8d/","passage":"the Embassy of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh in Thimphu has conveyed that the Government of Bangladesh will now continue to extend the “Visa on Arrival” facility to all eligible countries, including Bhutan. … Accordingly, Bhutanese passport holders travelling to Bangladesh may continue to avail themselves of the “Visa on Arrival” facility. … Election observers, as well as military and security personnel travelling to Bangladesh, are required to contact the Embassy of Bangladesh in Thimphu to complete the necessary formalities prior to travel.","explanation":"Bhutan's foreign ministry is recording an event, not describing a rule of its own: on 21 January 2026 the Embassy of Bangladesh in Thimphu conveyed that Bangladesh 'will now continue to extend the “Visa on Arrival” facility to all eligible countries, including Bhutan', and the next sentence states the consequence for the traveller — Bhutanese passport holders 'may continue to avail themselves' of it. That names this issuer and places it inside a facility whose terms are set by the Bangladeshi instruments, so the row takes its duration and its filing requirement from those instruments via fieldSources rather than from this notice, which states none.","publisher":"𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 – Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade"}}],"scope":{"covers":["recorded entry requirement","recorded stay allowance"],"notEstablished":["personal admission decision","work permission","residence rights","tax position","individual eligibility for every condition"],"passportType":"ordinary"}}