Bangladesh

Aevamo’s reading

The Special Branch of Bangladesh Police operates the arrival-visa desk at Bangladesh's ports of entry and decides who receives the facility, and voa-instructions is that body's own operative statement of who may obtain it, for what purposes and for how long. It is the text a border officer applies and it is current. The instrument behind it is the 15 September 2016 arrival-visa circular of the Security Services Division, consolidated into the Visa Policy 2006; that circular is fetched, declared and named here as the rival, and it is not quoted only because its PDF text layer is legacy Bijoy-encoded Bengali. Where a row cites something else it is because that document supplies a fact this one does not contain — the European categories and the single-entry duration (voa-info), the thirty days stated together with the parties (bhc-london-voa), the general requirement the arrival-visa rule presupposes rather than states (bhc-london-visa), and a visa-exemption agreement, which is a different instrument altogether (visa-exempt-agreements). Each of those is argued in debates.json.

This is the Special Branch's own statement of the arrival-visa duration followed immediately by the eligible categories, and the categories are introduced as 'People from the following categories in European countries' with 'Tourists' among them. It therefore states, in one continuous passage, both that a European tourist may obtain the visa on arrival and that it runs for a maximum of 30 days, single entry.