E-passport

Please read carefully all the instructions in this page before going to fill in and submit the online application form. The link of the E-passport Online Registration Portal is given near the bottom of this page.

You are also requested to check the following link in order to know which Bangladesh mission you can apply to:

https://washington.mofa.gov.bd/en/site/page/Jurisdiction-of-the-Consulate-Generals

Who can apply for e-passport?

To apply for e-passport, you must have a photocopy of either a Bangladeshi National ID (NID) or a Birth Registration Certificate (BRC), popularly known as 'digital birth certificate', having a 17 digit number which is verifiable at https://everify.bdris.gov.bd/. In case of BRC, please make sure that the webpage having your verified BRC contains the necessary data, e.g. names of the applicant and the parents in English and they match with the corresponding data in your application. If they do not match, please contact the office from which the BRC was issued to do the necessary correction. Additionally, if you have become a US citizen, you need to show the Dual Nationality/Citizenship Certificate issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of Bangladesh. Otherwise, you are required to have a proof of your legal status in the US, e.g. valid visa or permanent resident card, etc.

The applicants with Bangladeshi passport having more than one year validity can't apply unless proved by a supporting document justifying the legitimate necessity.

Submission of Application and Enrolment

While filling in the online application, you need to choose Washington mission as your passport office. Your present address must be an address in the USA and permanent address in Bangladesh. 

It is mandatory to appear in-person for biometric enrolment after online submission of the application. There is no alternative to in-person enrolment. While filling in online application, you can see the timeslots available for appointment for biometric enrolment. If you have submitted the application without scheduling appointment, please log into your account at epassport.gov.bd and schedule the appointment. 

The appointment system is automatically operated within e-passport portal (epassport.gov.bd) which is maintained by the Department of Immigration and Passports in Dhaka. The Embassy has no access to the appointment system; so it is not possible for the Embassy to entertain requests for scheduling appointment. As most applicants choose 'regular delivery' type, appointment slots for regular delivery application run out quickly. In such circumstances, you may try to find appointment slots by selecting 'express delivery' type.

Due to technical glitches of the appointment system, if you get an appointment on Saturday or Sunday or any other holiday; or if you miss the appointment date due to unavoidable circumstances, please come to the Embassy for enrolment any office day between 10 am to 1 pm after the scheduled date of appointment but before the date of registration expiration mentioned in the Application Summary. No rescheduling is required in such cases.

After scheduling appointment, please carefully go through this entire webpage to make sure you are fully prepared for the biometric enrolment.

After submission of your online application, if you find that certain data need to be corrected, please do not worry. You can correct the printout with pen. The official of the Embassy will make necessary changes to your application during biometric enrolment. Before completing your enrolment, you will be shown the draft delivery slip so that you can check your information.

Please do not send your application package or any document related to e-passport application by mail as you are required to come in-person. After biometric enrolment, your existing original passport will be immediately given back to you.

Once you arrive at the Embassy on the day of your scheduled appointment and submit your application to the counter of Passport & Visa Wing, it may take up to 3 to 4 hours before getting your turn to do the biometrics as there are six steps in the process of enrolment prior to capturing biometrics and most of the applicants come without the required documents; hence the concerned officials need to spend a lot of time helping those applicants prepare their application package.

Payment of Fees

Please  make a money order or cashier check or official check (not older than 30 days) payable to the 'Embassy of Bangladesh'. Cash or personal check or online payment is not accepted. While filling in online application, please select 'Offline Payment'. Every application must be submitted with a separate money order or cashier's check or official check even if the applications belong to one family or group. You are required to submit the money order or cashier check or official check in-person during biometric enrolment. If you want to change delivery type from 'regular' to 'express' or vice versa, please bring the required amount for your intended delivery type. 

E-passport fees for Bangladesh Mission's General Applicants

E-passport fees for Bangladesh Mission's Labours and Students

Please note that as per Section 14(e) of Wage Earners' Welfare Board Act, 2018, all consular fees of Bangladesh missions abroad must include 10% surcharge to contribute to the Wage Earners' Welfare Fund. That's why, the lists above contains the 10% surcharge on the base amount shown in the e-passport application portal.

To avail discounted fee applicable for students, the applicant  must bring at the time of enrolment a copy of Student ID Card or I-20 or any other official/school document that proves the full-time, active studentship status of the applicant.

To avail labour discount, the applicant must submit a photocopy of any document that proves the applicant is currently employed in a profession categorized as 'labour' in the e-passport system. 

NO REFUNDS: Fees, once received by the Embassy, cannot be refunded, even if the application is withdrawn or service cannot be rendered.

Processing time for issuance of e-passport: 

Express delivery: 30 working days; Regular delivery: 45 working days

(NB: Processing time may vary depending on the merit of individual cases. The applications having data mismatch among their different documents often take longer than the stipulated time)

List of Required Documents:

While coming to the Embassy for biometric enrolment, please bring the required documents mentioned below:

1. Application Summary, i.e. confirmation page of the online submission having barcode (Please make sure it shows "Application Submitted" on the top left corner of the page). If the application is not submitted, it will not be available in the server of the Embassy for enrolment. 
2. Complete application (3 pages) that has been submitted online.
3. Money order/cashier check/official check as per the table of fees shown above.
4. Most recent original Bangladeshi passport and its photocopy (if lost, GD/police report containing the number of the lost passport),
5. Photocopy of Bangladeshi NID (both front and back sides on one page) or photocopy of the Birth Registration Certificate (BRC) as well as a copy of the webpage with BRC data verified at https://everify.bdris.gov.bd/,
6. If you are a US citizen, a photocopy of Dual Nationality Certificate issued by the Government of Bangladesh, and a photocopy of valid US passport,
7. Photocopy of legal status in the US, e.g. valid visa or permanent resident card, or a notarised affidavit (sample form attached below) that you are not a US citizen,
8. Photocopy of marriage/divorce registration certificate (if applicable),
9. If there is any change in data from the most recent Bangladeshi MRP/E-passport, please submit relevant supporting documents as per the Circular of the Ministry of Home Affairs attached below. You also need to fill in the attached Self-declaration Form (Ongikarnama).
10. Any other documents that might be applicable to you as per the following link: https://www.epassport.gov.bd/instructions/instructions

Biometric Enrolment in Mobile Consular Camp

The applicants may come to any mobile consular camp organized by this Embassy for biometric enrolment of their e-passport applications. Before coming to the consular camp, the applicants need to submit online application at https://www.epassport.gov.bd/onboarding. For the purpose of submitting the application, the applicants can choose any available appointment date and timeslots. Whether you have got an online appointment or not, biometric enrolment is allowed in the consular camps. After submitting the application, please download the complete application having three pages, open it with Adobe Acrobat Reader and then print it so that the barcode at the bottom of the first page becomes compatible with the barcode scanner of the Mobile Enrolment Kit (MEK) of e-passport. With MEK, it is is possible to extract data from the barcode of your application even if you have submitted it online to other mission or passport office. You need to bring to consular camp, all the required documents listed above. Starting from 01 November 2024, biometric enrolment of e-passport service is being provided in all consular camps organized by this Embassy. The schedule of the upcoming consular camps can be tracked at https://washington.mofa.gov.bd/en/site/news/Upcoming-Mobile-Consular-Services and the Facebook page of the Embassy (https://www.facebook.com/BangladeshEmbassyUSA).

Delivery

By Mail: The applicants are requested to provide at the the time of enrolment a prepaid, self-addressed return envelope (USPS only) with a tracking number so that when the new passport is ready for issuance, it can be delivered by mail. Separate return envelope for each applicant is to be provided because the processing time varies on the basis of the merit of each application. When the new passport comes from Dhaka and is officially received through the e-passport software at the Embassy, a system generated email with common template goes to the applicant from the Department of Immigration & Passports in Dhaka requesting the applicant to pick-up the passport from the local passport office, i.e. the Embassy in this case. Please do not get confused by this 'pick-up' message because if you have already provided the return envelope, your new passport will be mailed to you.

Click Here for Service Hours of Walk-in: The applicant may walk-in to the Embassy after getting the update from epassport.gov.bd that the passport is ready for issuance at the local passport office.

A letter of authorization can be given to someone on behalf of the applicant to pick-up the passport from the Embassy. Authorization letter in pdf format can be found by clicking Here.

Mailing Address (only for sending return envelope, not for sending application)

Embassy of Bangladesh
Attention: E-passport
3510 International Drive NW
Washington, DC 20008

Tracking the Status

At every stage of the process, you can check the status of your application at https://www.epassport.gov.bd/authorization/application-status

Once you see the staus "Issued" from the local passport office, i.e. the Embassy, you can check at the following link with your previous passport number whether your new passport has been mailed out: https://bdembassyusatracking.org

Usually, passports are mailed out within three business days of issuance. You can find the tracking number of the outgoing mail in the status page of the link above.

Notice on Passport for further communications.

For any queries or further information, please email to pvwing.washdc@gmail.com, washdc.epassport@gmail.com.

To fill in and submit the online application form, please follow the E-passport Online Registration Portal maintained by the Department of Immigration & Passports, Dhaka in the link given below. In Step 1, you need to select 'No' in reply to the question: "Are you applying from Bangladesh?". 

https://www.epassport.gov.bd/onboarding

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