Visa Services

Customer Service Statement for U.S. Visa Applicants

The Embassy's Consular Section provides emergency and other assistance to U.S. citizens, including the issuance of passports. We also provide a wide variety of visa services to Bangladeshi and other foreign nationals here in Bangladesh. The section provides four major types of services:

Immigration: The section processes cases for people wishing to immigrate to the United States and accepts petitions from American Citizens for their immediate relatives to immigrate to the U.S.

Diversity Visas (DV): The section administers the DV or visa lottery program in Bangladesh allowing Bangladeshis to immigrate to America to contribute to the ethnic diversity of American society.

American Citizens Services (ACS): The section assists people with passport renewal, registration of Americans residing in or visiting Bangladesh, birth reports for children of American citizens born in Bangladesh, voter registration, income tax forms, notarial services and emergency services to American citizens.The ACS unit also manages the Embassy’s Warden System.  Click Warden Announcements to view the Consular Information Sheet, Public Announcements, and recent warden messages.

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Schedule of Fees

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For reasons of security, visitors or visa applicants MAY NOT bring any Cell Phones, Cameras, CDs, VCDs, DVDs, Video Cassettes etc. into the Chancery.