Bangladesh
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Travel authorisation, 30 days
Before you travel: you need a travel authorisation.
The allowance is per visit: it starts again on your next entry.
Entry and stay only. What this covers
Entry conditions5 to check
- Visa on arrival is granted only to travellers coming for tourism, business/trade, investment, or a government job.
- Except for official duty, the traveller must carry at least USD 500 (or equivalent) in cash or credit card and a return air ticket, per the 2016 Visa on Arrival circular.
- The traveller must justify the necessity of the travel to the immigration authority.
- 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.
- 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.
Your stay
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Official wording
This visa is valid for a stay of a maximum of 30 days for tourism, business, investment, or a government job. … In countries where Bangladesh has no embassy, only the incoming citizens of those countries can be given an On-Arrival Visa justifying the necessity of travel.
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.
The first block sets the 30-day maximum stay for an arrival visa; the second block states that in countries where Bangladesh has no embassy, the incoming citizens of those countries can be given an on-arrival visa. The passage names a class rather than states, and every issuer on this row was placed in that class by the country-by-country mission check recorded in residualSweep.
Source details
How the documents behind this regime are dated
The Special Branch pages carry no date of their own and are undated live pages; voa-info's HTML shows its eligibility sentence having been revised (the earlier form survives commented out), so the served text is the current one. bhc-london-visa carries 'Copyright © 2026 Bangladesh High Commission, London'. visa-exempt-agreements is headed as the list of countries bound by visa-exemption agreements with Bangladesh up to 30/10/2024, and the Security Services Division page carrying it was last updated 1 May 2025. The underlying circular is the Visa Policy 2006 as amended to September 2016, dated 04 April 2007 on its face with amendments to 15 September 2016. The draft Visa Policy 2026 is dated 06-05-2026 and is not in force. All documents were fetched live between 22-23 August 2026, and the MOFA mission directories on 28 August 2026.
What this answer covers Limits & assumptions
Work and residence rights are separate from this check. This is the entry rule and the length of stay the instrument grants. It is not a decision about you: the officer at the border decides admission, and we do not evaluate the purpose of your trip, your passport's remaining validity, an onward ticket, funds, insurance or health requirements.
Informational planning, not legal or immigration advice. The source is linked so you can check our reading.