Bangladesh

Aevamo’s reading

The Special Branch of Bangladesh Police operates the arrival-visa desk at Bangladesh's ports of entry and decides who receives the facility, and voa-instructions is that body's own operative statement of who may obtain it, for what purposes and for how long. It is the text a border officer applies and it is current. The instrument behind it is the 15 September 2016 arrival-visa circular of the Security Services Division, consolidated into the Visa Policy 2006; that circular is fetched, declared and named here as the rival, and it is not quoted only because its PDF text layer is legacy Bijoy-encoded Bengali. Where a row cites something else it is because that document supplies a fact this one does not contain — the European categories and the single-entry duration (voa-info), the thirty days stated together with the parties (bhc-london-voa), the general requirement the arrival-visa rule presupposes rather than states (bhc-london-visa), and a visa-exemption agreement, which is a different instrument altogether (visa-exempt-agreements). Each of those is argued in debates.json.

The passage states the general rule that foreign nationals require a valid visa to enter Bangladesh. The issuers on this row are covered by no visa-on-arrival ground and no visa-exemption agreement in the instruments held, so this general rule is the entitlement that applies to them.