U.S. documents for Bangladesh: the apostille since March 2025 and the consular attestation

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

Bangladesh joined the Apostille Convention, and it has applied between Bangladesh and the United States since 30 March 2025: the HCCH lists objections from twelve countries, and the U.S. is not one of them.

The consular pages have not caught up: the Embassy, New York and Los Angeles still describe the old chain of notary, Secretary of State and consular attestation, and New York’s page adds the U.S. Department of State. (sources: 1, 2, 3, 4)

The apostille, step by step

For a state document, such as a birth, marriage or death certificate, the apostille comes from the state that issued it; the HCCH says the competent authority is generally the state’s Secretary of State (HCCH).

A notarized private document, such as an affidavit, is first notarized and then apostilled in the state where the notary is commissioned.

The status table lists Bangladesh’s accession on 29 July 2024 and the entry into force on 30 March 2025, with objections from twelve countries in Europe and Latin America. The United States is not among them, so the Convention applies between the two (HCCH notifications).

Consular attestation, as the offices describe it

New York’s Ministry page asks for U.S. documents that are notarized and attested by the State Department before the consulate attests them, at $55 for the first five pages and $85 urgent, plus five dollars a page after that (New York page).

Its own website adds the county clerk and the Secretary of State before the Department of State (bdcgny.org).

The fees are each office’s own (New York, Miami, Los Angeles).

For Bangladeshi documents used here, the Embassy and Los Angeles want translations of a nikahnama or a court order attested first in Dhaka, by the Consular Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Embassy page).

An academic certificate without that attestation goes back to the issuing institution for verification.