Bangladesh entry requirements, by passport

What we've verified for Bangladesh

Beyond the yes/no matrix, we've checked these against an official primary source (last checked 2026-09-17). The specifics depend on your nationality — open your passport's row in the table for the detail that applies to you.

• Standard short-stay visa fee: USD 50.00
• Typical processing time
• Required documents (3)
• Required vaccinations
• Health-insurance rules
• Customs limits (cash, alcohol, tobacco)
• Overstay penalties
• Airport transit rules

Sources: voa.specialbranch.gov.bd (Bangladesh Police Special Branch — official visa-on-arrival instructions: online application steps, required documents including the invitation letter, 30-day maximum, the immigration officer's discretion, the limitation to travellers from countries with no Bangladeshi embassy, the US$50 fee in cash at the Sonali Bank counter at Dhaka airport; verified via direct fetch); hsia.gov.bd (Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport — customs rules: 200 cigarettes or one carton, one litre of alcohol for foreign passports and a ban for Bangladeshi passports, the FMJ form and currency declaration above US$10,000, weapons and undeclared gold); exteriores.gob.es (Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs travel advice for Bangladesh: the practical obligation to apply for the visa at the Embassy in Madrid and the frequent refusal of the visa on arrival to Spanish travellers, passport validity and pages, the US$5,000 cash declaration threshold, the impossibility of converting taka back, yellow fever by country of origin, dengue risk with 575 deaths in 2024, security warnings and areas advised against); bd.usembassy.gov (U.S. Embassy in Dhaka — the US$50 visa-on-arrival fee and US$160 advance visa fee, VoA validity of 15 to 30 days); Bangladeshi press on the December 2024 revision of overstay fines (amounts not confirmed against an official text); whc.unesco.org (World Heritage List) (checked 17 September 2026).