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A Brief Guide to Applying for a Tourist Visa from Bangladesh

A tourist visa is an official permission from the government body to let someone enter their country for vacation purposes or visit family for various purposes. Suppose, you're a Bangladeshi and you want to travel somewhere in the United States of America. For this, you need to get a Tourist Visa from Bangladesh from the embassy of the United States of America located in Bangladesh. Every country maintains its tourist visa policy to allow foreigners to set foot in the country for a short-term visit. To check your credibility for a tourist visa click here.

Tourist Visa Requirements

To apply for a tourist visa, generally, you need to accumulate a few of the documents listed below:

  • A passport with a minimum of three to six months of validity period
  • You need to fill up a tourist visa application form for your desired country
  • Two to four copies of passport-size photographs 
  • Valid travel insurance (if needed)
  • A valid bank statement with sufficient funds that support the traveler during the stay
  • Accommodation arrangement proof during the stay
  • You need the evidence of a return ticket 
  • Visa fee payment receipt
  • Any Invitation letter (if needed) 
  • A copy of the marriage certificate or birth certificate (if needed)
  • Any other documents the particular embassy asks for 

 

Tourist Visa Validation Period 

A tourist visa or travel visa validity is issued for a maximum of 30 days with a single entry. Therefore, it depends on the county to allow the traveler with multiple entries for an entire year but still one can stay 30 days with each entry. 

Tourist Visa Cost

A tourist Visa can cost $30 to $160 depending on the country you’re visiting. The tourist visa cost is not fixed. It depends on the county you are interested in and the other costs like translation or the other services. 

How to Apply for A Tourist Visa?

To apply for a Tourist visa, you need to follow four steps. They are- Find an Embassy or Visa Consulate

The very first step is to contact the destination country's embassy located in your country or any visa processing agency in Bangladesh like VisaFQ. You need to keep in mind that an embassy and a visa consultant agency are different. After reaching either of them, you have to submit your visa application with the necessary documents. 

Gather the Documents

You have to collect all the information that the embassy or the visa consulates ask for. If the documents are in the language of your country, you must translate them into English. Therefore some personal documents like birth certificates or marriage certificates need to have an appropriate; stamp on them.

Pay the Visa Fee

Before attending the visa interview, you must have to pay the required visa fee. Sometimes the embassy may ask you the visa fee on the same day of the embassy interview.

Attend the Visa Interview

After submitting all the necessary information, the embassy would ask to sit you for a simple interview. The embassy would like to know your plans, the reason for your visit, the duration of your stay, and so on. The main reason for the interview is to investigate if you have any plans for overstaying. 

FAQ

How long does it take to issue a tourist visa?
It generally takes two to three weeks to grant a tourist visa. The issuing time may be varied due to the embassy workload, festivals, or any other unexpected events taking place. Sometimes it might take nearly a month to issue a travel visa.
There are no fixed attempts to apply for a tourist visa. It may depend on how well you are applying for the visa.
There are a few reasons the visa application gets rejected. The area-

Providing any false information to the embassy
Submitting the incomplete information
Your passport validity is not as per the embassy's requires
You do not have sufficient funds in your bank to support you during the stay
You have committed a serious crime in the past or the police clearance is against you
You have violated any travel rules against the country's law during your previous visit to any country
Yes, it is possible to submit an E-Visa Application to get a tourist visa online for some countries. E-Visa mate traveling hassle-free.
You cannot generally extend your tourist visa unless- You have an unexpected situation like birth, illness, or death. There is an unstable situation in your country causing a danger to go back. If there is a natural calamity taking place that can put the flight at risk such as tornados, storms earthquakes, etc.

Unlike tourist visas, the Schengen Visa is another kind of well-known tourist visa for visiting the countries of Europe that are located under the Schengen areas. Schengen visas are short-term visit visas or temporary visas during transit for about 90 days within 180 days. The Schengen visa is known as the C Visa.

Schengen area countries are Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. 

Traveling makes a person wise in many ways like getting the geographical knowledge, exposure to different cultures and cuisine and so many. Visa processing is a daunting task but Getting a tourist visa via the embassy or the visa processing agencies in Bangladesh like VisaFQ can make the whole task easy.

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