How we check the information on this site
bangladeshiconsulates.us is an independent directory of Bangladesh’s consular offices in the United States. It is not run by Bangladesh’s government or by any of its offices, and it cannot file or book anything.
This page explains where each fact comes from and what we do when the official pages disagree.
Where the information comes from
- The official pages of the four career offices: the Embassy’s consular wing in Washington and the consulates general in New York, Los Angeles and Miami, on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ platform and, for New York, on its own website too.
- The Embassy’s list of honorary consuls, for New Orleans and Hawaii.
- Bangladeshi portals: epassport.gov.bd for passport fees, the birth registration system, the Security Services Division for dual nationality, the Election Commission for the NID and the Bangladesh Police for the police clearance certificate.
- Other sources: the CDC’s Where to Write for Vital Records, the HCCH status table of the Apostille Convention and its page on U.S. apostille authorities.
- Google’s business listings, for reviews and for addresses that differ from the official ones.
Dated copies
Every official page we cite is saved on the day we read it. The current version of the site rests on copies made on 22 October 2026, and the pages that depend on them show that date at the top. Where a page says when it was last updated, we use that date, not the date we read it.
Several notices are scanned PDFs or images in Bengali, such as Miami’s NID notices, its consular camps and New York’s card payment rule. We transcribe and translate them before citing them, and the link says the source is in Bengali.
The CDC directory is read twice, and a state’s vital records office is published only when the two readings match. A domain that once belonged to an office is checked in the Internet Archive before we link it: the Embassy’s old address, bdembassyusa.org, is not linked anywhere on this site.
When official pages disagree
We publish both versions, each with its link, instead of choosing one silently. The site carries 14 of these today. New York’s own website, for example, leaves Miami out of its list of districts; the Florida page sets it next to the Embassy’s list.
The contradictions published today
Each one sits on the page where it changes what you do; the first page is linked here.
- New York’s website leaves Miami out of the list of districts
- How you pay at the New York counter: card only or money order
- New York’s directions page still points to the old address
- Los Angeles’s old and new telephone numbers
- Los Angeles: applications in the morning, biometrics until the afternoon
- Three versions of the Embassy’s hours
- Miami: an NID appointment, or none at all
- Miami’s contact email and the address behind the link
- The apostille in force, and consular pages that still describe attestation
- The machine-readable passport reissue that was ending in June 2025
- Four ways to book the e-passport visit
- Dual nationality in New York: by mail with a money order, or online
- The travel permit fee: one rate in New York, two elsewhere
- Two different NVR forms
Which office serves your state
The Embassy publishes the districts: New York, Los Angeles and Miami take eight states each, and the Embassy takes the rest, the District and the territories. Every state page follows that list.
City pages also list the four career offices with their straight-line distance and say when another office is closer than the assigned one.
Road distances and driving times come from OpenStreetMap routing (OSRM), at posted speed limits and without traffic; straight-line distances are calculated from the coordinates of each city and office.
Fees and reviews
Fees on fees and requirements and on each office page come from that office’s own page, each one checked against the text we saved. An office page never quotes another office’s fee.
Reviews are read on Google on the date given on each office page, including the lowest-rated ones, and rewritten in our words; the amounts and dates in them are the reviewers’ own.
What we have not done
We have not visited the offices or called them. The facts here come from what the offices, Bangladesh’s ministries and portals and U.S. agencies publish, with Google’s listings for the reviews and OpenStreetMap for the distances. If a page here and an office disagree, the office decides.
Corrections
If you find an error, write to [email protected] with the page and the official source that contradicts it. The legal notice says who runs the site.