What you need to enter Bangladesh with a Kuwaiti passport
Kuwaiti citizens need a visa for Bangladesh, but they can get it on arrival at the border.
- Visa-on-arrival fee
- 50 USD
- Minimum passport validity
- 6 months
Why is this passport validity required? →
Last verified: 17 September 2026
Verified practical details
You can get your visa on arrival in Bangladesh, but it's worth preparing the paperwork ahead of time:
Authorisation system
Visa on arrival (VoA) with prior online registration
The visa on arrival is applied for before travelling on the Bangladesh Police Special Branch portal: you register, upload a photo, the passport bio page and a valid invitation letter, and carry the printed "Acknowledgement Receipt". It covers a maximum of 30 days for tourism, business, investment or government work, and granting it is at the discretion of the immigration officer at the port of entry: it is not a right. The official instruction itself says that, in countries where Bangladesh has an embassy, the visa on arrival is reserved for justified cases.
Apply on the official site →Visa, e-Visa, or electronic authorisation? What's the difference →
Fee
50 USD
The visa-on-arrival fee is 50 US dollars (plus processing charges), paid in cash only at the Sonali Bank counter at Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal airport before going to the "On-Arrival Visa" desk. A visa applied for in advance at a diplomatic mission follows each country's fee schedule: the U.S. Embassy, for instance, puts the multiple-entry visa issued by Bangladeshi missions there at 160 dollars.
Required documents
- A valid passport with at least six months' validity and at least two blank pages.
- A visa obtained in advance at a Bangladesh embassy where there is one in the country of residence: in those countries the visa on arrival is reserved for justified cases.
- If going for the visa on arrival: an application registered on the Special Branch portal, a full-face photo, a copy of the passport bio page, an invitation letter from the relevant body and the printed "Acknowledgement Receipt", plus the 50 dollars in cash.
Health insurance
Not mandatory for this destination.
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The visa on arrival covers a maximum of 30 days and is single entry; an extension of another 30 days can be requested at the Department of Immigration and Passports in Agargaon (Dhaka), but do not take it for granted. The Special Branch portal also covers a transit visa within the same system.
More Bangladesh rules
They don't depend on your passport, so they are on the Bangladesh page:
Official portal: https://voa.specialbranch.gov.bd/. Destination data verified on 17 September 2026. 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); 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).
Travel insurance for Bangladesh
It isn't listed as mandatory for this entry, but without insurance, medical care during the trip can get expensive.
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Things to see and do in Bangladesh
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This pair in context
In the other direction, citizens of Bangladesh need a visa to enter Kuwait. See the Bangladesh → Kuwait page.
Of the 18 passports from Western Asia that VisaRadar tracks, for travel to Bangladesh 12 need a prior authorisation or a visa on arrival, 5 need a visa and 1 cannot enter. Same result as Kuwait: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Cyprus, Georgia and Oman.
With a passport from Kuwait, in the rest of Southern Asia you can enter Iran and Pakistan visa-free; you need a prior authorisation or a visa on arrival for Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka; you need a visa for Afghanistan.
A passport from Kuwait ranks 96 of 199 in the VisaRadar passport ranking and reaches 96 of 198 destinations without applying for a visa in advance.
Counts from the same requirements matrix behind this page's verdict, using the UN M49 subregions.
Frequently asked questions
Do Kuwaiti citizens need a visa for Bangladesh?
Yes, but you can obtain it directly upon arrival at Bangladesh's entry point.
What minimum passport validity is required?
A valid passport with at least six months' validity and at least two blank pages.
What currency is used in Bangladesh?
Bangladeshi Taka (BDT).
What do Kuwaiti passport holders need for the countries near Bangladesh?
With a passport from Kuwait, in the rest of Southern Asia you can enter Iran and Pakistan visa-free; you need a prior authorisation or a visa on arrival for Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka; you need a visa for Afghanistan.
Related pages
See Bangladesh requirements for other passports →
Informational only. Always verify requirements with the official embassy or consulate before you travel.