New Indian visa centre in Dhaka
Monday, 22 December 2014
The State Bank of India is opening a new Indian Visa Application Centre (IVAC) in Dhaka from Jan 1. The country's leading state-owned bank is its authorised visa processing agency in Bangladesh.
This third IVAC will be located at Dhanmondi centre, house 24 on Road 2, for handling applications seeking Indian visa. IVAC also announced a number of new measures to handle the large volume of visa applications in a press release.
From now, medical emergency visa-seekers can submit applications on a “walk-in basis” without an appointment date. A special counter at the IVAC centre in Gulshan will handle them.The visa processing fees for all applicants would be increased to Tk 600 from the current Tk 400.
Applicants must upload scanned photo with the online application form -- or else they will be considered incomplete. The press release has also warned visa-seekers to be vigilant about agents and middlemen and to report them to the nearest police station.
It requested all visa-seekers to submit “genuine, complete and accurate” documents.
They receive applications from Sunday to Thursday from 8am to 1pm and deliver passports from 3pm to 6pm.visahelp@ivacbd.com, info@ivacbd.com and visahelp@hcidhaka.gov.in are emails for any assistance, according to a news agency.