The Indian Visa Application Centre (IVAC) at Jamuna Future Park (JFP) in Dhaka inaugurated a Visa Application Facilitation Centre (VAFC) Thursday on the 74th Republic Day of India. The centre will provide an online visa application form "filling-up" facility. Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pranay Verma inaugurated the Visa Application Facilitation Centre. Ever since online visa applications became mandatory, there have been requests for such a centre, where applicants, who do not have a computer or an internet connection, can come with their passports or documents and avail of the online visa application form filling-up facility and get their visa applications printed. Read more: How to Apply for Indian Medical Visa from Bangladesh The form filling-up facility at the VAFC will be provided for a service fee of Tk200 per application. This will be an optional value-added service provided by the IVAC. This facility will be rolled out in other IVACs in Bangladesh depending on demand. As the VAFC is located adjacent to the IVAC in JFP, visa applicants can easily generate visa applications at the VAFC and submit the completed visa applications and documents at the IVAC. Fifteen Indian visa application centres located across Bangladesh have been managed by the State Bank of India (SBI) since December 2005. The IVAC Dhaka at JFP, which started its operations in July 2018, is the world's biggest Indian visa application centre.  

Bangladesh Deputy High Commission in Kolkata has announced that it will soon open its first official visa application (VAC) centre in Kolkata. The announcement came to culminate a year of celebrations on the glorious occasion of the birth centenary of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, in tandem with what is also considered the year of digitalization of Bangladesh. Read: Visa Free Country List for Bangladeshi Passport Holders in 2021 State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md. Shahriar Alam said functions related to diplomacy and business are the main objectives of a diplomatic commission. “We are planning to separate visa centres, especially in embassies where there is an increasing rush of service-seekers,” he said. As a part of this plan, the State Minister said they are separating it from the main embassy or high commission. Bangladesh has diplomatic missions in 75 countries around the world. Read:Indian tourist visas to be issued from Oct 12 “That is why the Bangladesh government has set up a separate visa centre in Kolkata,” he said adding that Bangladesh has diplomatic missions in 75 countries around the world.”