Bangladeshi passport in the USA: e-passport, renewal, fees with the 10% surcharge and a lost passport

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

The passport is issued by the Department of Immigration and Passports in Dhaka. The Embassy and the three consulates general take the biometric enrollment and hand the passport over when it arrives.

The Embassy is plain about the visit: there is no alternative to in-person enrollment, and it asks you not to mail the application package (Embassy e-passport page).

Before you start, check which office covers your state on the Embassy’s list of districts (Embassy list) or on our appointments page. You choose that office as your “passport office” in the online form.

Who can apply, and with which papers

You need a Bangladeshi NID card or a 17-digit birth registration certificate that can be verified on everify.bdris.gov.bd, with your name and your parents’ names in English matching the application.

If you are now a U.S. citizen, you also show your dual nationality certificate; if you are not, proof of your status in the U.S. (Embassy e-passport page).

If your old birth certificate is not online, start with our birth registration guide.

What the e-passport costs

The fee depends on the booklet (48 or 64 pages), the validity (five or ten years) and the delivery: regular or express. The offices add 10% for the Wage Earners’ Welfare Fund to the base fee of the portal.

Base fees are the portal’s table for applicants at a mission (epassport.gov.bd fees); the totals with the 10% are the Embassy’s (Embassy table), except the 64-page, ten-year booklet, whose row is cut off in the Embassy’s table and comes from New York’s (New York fee table).

Miami warns that the online form shows the fee without the 10%, so the amount on your printout is not what you pay (Miami page). Applicants under 18 can only get the five-year passport, according to the Embassy.

The portal also has a reduced table for workers and students (“labors and students”) at a mission, from $30 base for the 48-page, five-year booklet. Miami and New York publish it with the 10% (Miami page, New York fee table); the Embassy’s and Los Angeles’s tables do not mention it.

The bases on the portal are $30 and $45 for 48 pages and five years, $50 and $75 for ten years. None of these pages says who counts as a worker or a student, or what proof is asked, so ask your office before paying the reduced fee.

Booking the enrollment visit

The offices do not book the e-passport visit the same way.

The Embassy sends you to the slots inside epassport.gov.bd and says it cannot book them; New York asks you to make an appointment; Los Angeles says no appointment is required; and Miami enrolls from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on any working day. (sources: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Los Angeles’s hours page gives 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. for applications, while its e-passport page invites you for biometrics on any working day from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., without an appointment. (sources: 1, 2)

Bring the printed application summary with its barcode, your old passport and a copy, the NID or birth certificate copy, the dual nationality certificate if you are a U.S. citizen, and the fee.

The Embassy says the wait before the biometrics can reach two to three hours on a busy day, because of the checks that come first; Los Angeles gives one to two hours (Los Angeles page).

Payment rules are each office’s own: the Embassy’s e-passport page, New York’s notice of 1 October 2026, Los Angeles’s payment page and Miami’s e-passport page (Embassy, New York, in Bengali, Los Angeles, Miami).

How long it takes

Miami says the passport is usually ready in four to six weeks after the application, if the details are correct, and that urgent applications are discouraged because the difference in processing time between regular and urgent is minimal (Miami page).

The Embassy, New York and Los Angeles publish no processing time for the e-passport, and the portal does not say how many days “express” delivery takes.

For the old machine-readable passport, the Embassy gave 30 working days for express and 45 for regular (Embassy MRP page).

Renewing a Bangladeshi passport in the USA

A renewal is an e-passport application like any other, with your most recent passport and a copy of its data page. The Embassy, Los Angeles and Miami add a limit: a passport with more than one year of validity left is not renewed unless a document shows a real need (Embassy, Los Angeles, Miami).

For a child, the passport can only be the five-year one.

Miami asks for a 3R photo on a gray background for a child under six, and for a parent’s or guardian’s NID or passport copy when the passport is collected (Miami page). The pages we read do not say who must accompany a minor at the enrollment, so ask your office.

The old machine-readable passport

The Embassy’s page on reissuing a machine-readable passport (MRP) says the service was being phased out and would run on a very limited scale until 30 June 2025. The page has not been updated since February 2025, and it still lists who may apply. (source)

That page lists residents of Alaska, Hawaii and the five territories among the people who could still apply for an MRP reissue by mail. Anyone else applies for the e-passport, and a handwritten passport can only lead to an e-passport (Embassy MRP page).