Bangladeshi passport

Bangladeshi passport
বাংলাদেশী পাসপোর্ট

The front cover of a contemporary Bangladeshi passport
Issued by  Bangladesh
Type of document Passport
Purpose Identification
Eligibility requirements Bangladeshi citizenship
Expiration 5 years from the date of issue
Cost ৳3450 (Regular issue)[1]
৳6900 (Express)[1]

The Bangladeshi Passport is a passport issued to the citizens of Bangladesh for the purpose of international travel. The passport is issued by the Government of The People's Republic of Bangladesh or by any of its overseas missions to Bangladeshi citizens who are citizens by birth or by descent.

The passport of Bangladesh is valid in all countries of the world for travel except Israel, with which there are no diplomatic relations established. Formerly, Bangladeshi passports were also not valid to travel to Taiwan, Rhodesia and South Africa.

History

Prior to the Machine-readable passport, Bangladesh was one of the few last remaining countries to still issue handwritten passports. In 2010, the Bangladesh Government announced to replace over 6.6 million handwritten passports with the new machine-readable passports.[2] According to a guideline of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Machine-readable Passport (MRP) and Machine-readable Visa (MRV) issuance was started by Bangladesh Government in April 2010. However, all traditional handwritten passports were honoured as a bona fide travel document issued by the Bangladesh government until it expired. All traditional handwritten passports were successfully withdrawn from circulation before the international deadline by ICAO of November 2015.

As Bangladesh moved from handwritten passports to Machine-readable passports, the Bangladeshi government in 2016, announced it's plans to soon introduce the issuance of Biometric passports for all it's citizens, which would ease immigration and increase visa-free access worldwide for Bangladeshi passport holders.[3]

Types of passports

Physical appearance

Bangladesh passport is valid for all countries of the world except Israel
Inside cover of the old hand-written Bangladesh passport

Passport note

The inside cover contains the date and place of issuance of the passport as well as the declaration of the President, addressing the authorities of all other states, identifying the bearer as a citizen of the People's Republic of Bangladesh and requesting that he or she be allowed to pass and be treated as per international norms. The note inside of the Bangladeshi passports states:

In Bengali (Bangla):

গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশের রাষ্ট্রপতির পক্ষে সংশ্লিষ্ট সকলকে এই মর্মে জানান যাইতেছে এবং প্রত্যাশা করা হইতেছে যে, ইহার বাহককে অবাধে ও বিনা প্রতিবন্ধকতায় গমনাগমনের অনুমতি এবং তাহার প্রয়োজনে সকল প্রকার সহায়তা ও নিরাপত্তা প্রদান করা হউক।
গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশের রাষ্ট্রপতির আদেশক্রমে

In English:

These are to request and require in the name of the President of the People's Republic of Bangladesh all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance and to afford him/her every assistance and protection of which he/she may stand in need.
By order of the President of the People's Republic of Bangladesh

Languages

The text of Bangladeshi passports is printed in both Bangla (Bengali) and English.

Passport holder identity

Information about the passport holder are spread across seven or more pages in the contemporary Bangladesh passport. The field names (e.g. name) are written in Bengali (Bangla) and English, with the field values is written in English only. No information regarding gender or faith are required.

The inside cover of a machine-readable Bangladeshi passport has an embossed image of the National Monument, with the national anthem of Bangladesh written in Bengali (Bangla) and English.

The first page contains the President's declaration in Bengali and English, and states that the passport is valid for all the countries in the world except Israel.

The second page is the main data page. It contains all information pre-printed on a thin plastic paper.[4] The information printed are:

In addition, more information regarding the passport holder is encoded using optical character recognition, and can only be read by a particular machine.[4]

The third page contains eight instructions for the passport holder in Bengali only, with a statement in English reading:

If lost abroad the founder of this passport is requested to deposit it to the nearest Bangladesh Mission/Consulate.

It also contains the passport number printed on the page.

The fourth page contains further information of the bearer:

All information is printed using a dot matrix printer and is in English only. It is then signed by the appropriate officer of the issuing authority.

The inside back of the passport contains an embossed image of the National Parliament of Bangladesh in Bengali and English, with a quotation of Louis I Kahn, the architect of the complex, in English.

Visa requirements

Visa requirements for Bangladeshi citizens
  Bangladesh
  Visa free access
  Visa on arrival
  Visa required

In 2017, Bangladeshi citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 38 countries and territories, ranking the Bangladeshi passport 95th in the world according to the Visa Restrictions Index.

Passport ban

See also

Footnotes

  1. 1 2
  2. ↑ "Bangladesh Pick Passport Partners". Security Documents World. 22 March 2010. Archived from the original on 11 September 2012.
  3. ↑ Bangladesh launching an epassport plan | BiometricUpdate
  4. 1 2 Urmee, Farhana (17 June 2011). "Your Passport to the World". Star Weekend Magazine. The Daily Star. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
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