Visa requirements for Bangladeshi citizens

Bangladeshi citizens need a Schengen visa, which covers all member states for up to 90 days in any 180-day period.

Of the 198 countries whose entry rules are known in both directions, Bangladesh and 30 of them let each other’s citizens in without a visa obtained in advance (visa-free, on arrival or with an ETA; an e-visa counts as a visa).

134 countries ask holders of the Bangladeshi passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Bangladesh without one: Albania, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina and 129 others.

The reverse holds for 3 countries: holders of the Bangladeshi passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Bangladesh (Kenya, Sri Lanka and Vanuatu).

109 countries ask holders of the Bangladeshi passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 24 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Bangladesh.

85 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Bangladesh, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Bangladesh, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in India (18), Vietnam (6), Myanmar (5) and Thailand (4).

The United States refused 61% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Bangladesh in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 164 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 32 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Schengen consulates in Bangladesh refused 55% of short-stay visa applications in 2025 (all Schengen consulates worldwide: 15%). Among the 74 countries where they received at least 10,000 applications, that is the 1st highest rate. The figure counts every nationality applying there, not only citizens.

Visa-free travel with the Bangladeshi passport

By continent, the Bangladeshi passport is visa-free in 8 countries in the Americas, 4 countries in Oceania, 3 countries in Africa and 1 country in Asia. The longest visa-free stays for Bangladeshi citizens are allowed in Barbados (180 days), Dominica (180 days), Fiji (120 days), Vanuatu (120 days), the Bahamas (90 days) and Grenada (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Bangladeshi citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar and 8 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Bangladeshi citizens enter Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana and 47 others. Ivory Coast, Kenya and Saint Kitts and Nevis ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Where Bangladeshi citizens are not admitted

According to the visa data used here, Bangladeshi citizens are currently not admitted to Iraq and Libya.

Bangladesh’s neighbours

For the neighbouring countries, the rules are: Myanmar (e-Visa) and India (visa required).

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Indian passport ranks 150th (56 destinations) and the passport of Myanmar ranks 181st (42 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 23 can enter visa-free, 141 get a visa on arrival, 33 need a visa from an embassy or consulate and 1 is not admitted for Bangladesh.