Power of attorney for Bangladesh from the USA: signing before a consular officer or a notary

A power of attorney for land, shares or a bank account in Bangladesh is signed in person before a consular officer at the Embassy or a consulate general, with your photo and thumbprint on it. The Embassy attests only a special power of attorney, for a specific purpose. The fee is $55 in Los Angeles and New York.

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

The Embassy explains the two kinds: a general power gives broad authority over property, accounts and court cases; a special power covers one task.

To protect the person giving the power, it attests only special powers (Embassy page). The offices do not draft the document: you prepare it, attach the photos and sign it in front of the officer.

Signing at the office

Every person who signs has to come. New York asks for the application form, two photos of each person, the original document and a set of copies, proof of ownership of the property, a Bangladeshi passport, NID or birth certificate for each person, and a U.S. photo ID (New York page).

New York’s pages disagree on how you pay at the counter. A notice from the Ministry’s site, in force from 1 October 2026, says fees paid in person are taken only by debit or credit card, with money orders kept for mail and the consular camps.

On bdcgny.org, the English text of the power-of-attorney page and the checklist of the e-passport page still ask for a money order or a certified check. (sources: 1 in Bengali, 2, 3)

Office	Regular	Urgent	Extra pages
New York	$55	$85	$5 each after five
Los Angeles	$55	$85	Not stated
Miami	$55	$85	$5 each after five

The fees are each office’s own (New York, Los Angeles, Miami). New York delivers the next day and says its attested power is valid for three months.

If you cannot come in person

The Embassy and Los Angeles describe two steps for someone who cannot appear: a U.S. notary, then the authentication of the notary’s commission by the Secretary of State of your state, before the office attests it (Embassy page, Los Angeles page).

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)

Miami adds a deadline that matters in Bangladesh: an attested power has to reach the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for authentication within two months, and the whole process has to be finished within four months of the attestation (Miami instructions).

Selling or buying land

Bring the mutation, inheritance certificate or deed (RS, CS and BA) as proof of ownership, as New York asks (New York page).

Several people sign

The Embassy’s rule applies to each one: all signatories appear in person (Embassy page).