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 three fragments are the title of the Maldives row in the current edition of the Home Ministry's own list of Bangladesh's visa-waiver agreements, split across a line-wrapped table cell in the scan. A row titled 'Agreement … on the waiver of visas' between the two states is what a visa-free entry for Maldivian passport holders is, so this establishes the entitlement and its date (the row's date cell reads 28/05/1983). The scan's Bengali duration column does not survive extraction, so the number is not taken from here: it is carried separately from the same division's earlier edition of the same list, whose text layer renders the entry.