Consular Wing of the Embassy of Bangladesh in Washington, D.C.

Checked against the official pages on 22 October 2026. How we check.

The Embassy of Bangladesh, at 3510 International Drive NW, Washington, represents the country to the U.S. government.

Its consular wing serves Bangladeshis in the states that the three consulates general do not cover, plus the District and the five territories: 32 areas in all, from Texas and Illinois to Alaska and Hawaii (source).

It also takes its services on the road: its notice of upcoming mobile consular camps lists one in Lakeville, Minnesota, on 17-18 October 2026, and one in Sugar Land and Houston, Texas, starting on 31 October 2026 (source).

How to book an appointment at the Bangladesh Embassy in Washington, D.C.

For an e-passport, apply online at epassport.gov.bd, choose the Washington mission and pick a biometric slot in the portal.

If the system gives you a weekend date, or you miss yours for reasons you could not avoid, the Embassy lets you come on an office day from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. before the expiry date on your application summary.

An NVR is a same-day walk-in service, with no appointment, and the NID visit is booked on the Election Commission’s site.

The Embassy says email is preferred: one address for passports, visas, the NVR, dual nationality and the travel permit, and another for powers of attorney, attestation, birth certificates and the J-1 waiver (source).

At the counter it takes cards, Google Pay and Apple Pay as well as money orders and cashier’s or official checks; cash and personal checks are refused (source).

How to cancel an appointment at the Bangladesh Embassy in Washington, D.C.

An e-passport slot belongs to your account on epassport.gov.bd, and the Embassy cannot move it.

Its e-passport page says that if you miss the date for unavoidable reasons you can still come from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on an office day, as long as the registration has not expired, with no rescheduling needed.

Getting to the Bangladesh Embassy in Washington, D.C.

The Embassy works from its own building on International Drive NW, in Northwest Washington. Arrive with time to spare: the e-passport page warns that the wait before your biometrics can run to two or three hours, because of the six steps that come before it.

Real reviews of the Bangladesh Embassy in Washington, D.C.

The Embassy’s Google listing averages 4.1 stars from 2,129 reviews. The recent ones mostly praise the e-passport counter; the complaint that keeps coming back, from 2024 to 2026, is a phone line that nobody answers.

Her appointment was at 10:42, but the family arrived around a quarter to ten, found parking right in front of the building and was seen in what felt like first-come order. She calls the visit smooth (August 2026).

Marium M.

He drove up from Clemson, South Carolina (a state the Embassy’s list gives to Miami), for his e-passport biometrics, worried that a missing paper would mean a second trip. Everything was done on the day, and he thanks the staff for it (June 2026).

Shamrat P.

Over two weeks he called at least twenty times and nobody picked up. He asks the Embassy either to answer the line or to take the number down, and says he will try email or go in person instead (November 2025).

Ovi

Reviews read on 22 October 2026 and rewritten in our words; the amounts and dates in them are the reviewers’ own. The full set is on the office’s Google listing.

Opening hours of the Bangladesh Embassy in Washington, D.C.

The Embassy’s consular wing in Washington takes papers from 10:00 a.m. to noon, with collection from noon to 1:00 p.m., Monday to Friday (source).

The Embassy’s consular hours page gives 10:00 a.m. to noon for applications. Its NID page and its e-passport page give 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., and its same-day NVR notice takes the passport only from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. (sources: 1, 2, 3)

For most papers, 10:00 a.m. to noon fits every version. For a same-day NVR, the notice is stricter: hand in the passport between 10:00 and 11:00 a.m.

Applications are taken on weekdays only, not on holidays (source).

Phone number of the Bangladesh Embassy in Washington, D.C.

202-244-0183: the Embassy’s number (source). The email address is [email protected].

For passports, visas, the NVR, dual nationality and the travel permit, the Embassy gives [email protected] (source).

For powers of attorney, attestation, birth certificates and the J-1 waiver, the Embassy gives [email protected] (source).

What the Bangladesh Embassy in Washington, D.C. handles

Here is what the Embassy’s consular wing in Washington lists on its pages, and what is handled somewhere else.

It issues the e-passport, a new passport after a loss and, for a few places, the reissue of an old machine-readable passport, which is being phased out. It also handles the travel permit, visas and the NVR, voter registration with the NID card, and birth registration.

For papers, it attests documents and special powers of attorney and issues the J-1 waiver no objection certificate and the certificate for taking a body to Bangladesh.

On its own menu of services (source):

What is done elsewhere:

A selection of the fees on the Embassy’s own pages:

The passport guide has the full e-passport table, including the reduced fee for workers and students, and the requirements page sets the four offices side by side.

What you can settle without traveling

Some Bangladeshi paperwork starts by mail or online.

What an embassy does and what a consulate does

An embassy represents its country to the host government; consulates look after their own citizens and issue visas in a given area.

In Washington the two roles share a building: the Embassy has a Passport & Visa Wing and a Consular Wing that do a consulate’s work for the states outside the three consular districts.

Bangladesh has three consulates general in the U.S.: New York, Los Angeles and Miami, with eight states each on the Embassy’s list (source). The appointments page sets the four offices side by side.