Sending a body to Bangladesh from the USA: the consular certificate and the funeral home papers
Checked against the official pages on 22 October 2026. How we check.
The Embassy’s page lists the papers (Embassy page, in Bengali):
- a copy of the deceased’s Bangladeshi passport or, without one, the U.S. passport with the NVR, an NID or a Bangladeshi birth certificate;
- the death certificate;
- the disposition or transit permit from the local health department;
- four affidavits from the funeral home: the embalmer’s, non-infectious, non-contraband and sanitary.
Sending the papers
You send them to the consular wing by mail or by email, and for the original certificate you include a prepaid USPS return envelope with tracking (Embassy page, in Bengali).
The Embassy’s general page asks for a letter of non-communicable disease as well, and for scans in PDF to get an urgent answer (Embassy page).
| Office | What it does | Fee |
|---|---|---|
| Embassy | Certificate for transporting the body | Not stated |
| Los Angeles | Attests the papers the same day | No fee |
| Miami | No objection certificate for repatriation | See its requirements |
Los Angeles lists the death certificate, a certificate of no communicable disease, the permit to transport the remains and an exemplification of the birth or death record, and asks for the deceased’s Bangladeshi passport to cancel it (Los Angeles page).
Miami publishes its own list of requirements (Miami requirements).
Miami’s list for its no objection certificate has nine points: an application signed by a relative or friend, a recent photo of the deceased, the Bangladeshi passport, the birth certificate or NID, a letter from the funeral agency, the burial transit permit from the health department and the death certificate.
The family sends scans first; once the consulate has authenticated the death certificate, it calls the family in with the originals, and the certificate is issued without any fee (Miami requirements).
The original certificate comes back in a prepaid USPS envelope with tracking that you send with the papers; from outside the U.S., the Embassy takes a prepaid courier envelope (Embassy page, in Bengali).
The U.S. papers
The death certificate and the transit permit come from the state or county where the person died, and the funeral home usually orders them.
If the family will also use the death certificate in Bangladesh, for an inheritance, it can carry the state’s apostille since 30 March 2025: see apostille and attestation.
- A copy of the deceased’s passport or NVR page
- The death certificate
- The health department’s transit permit
- The funeral home’s four affidavits
- A prepaid USPS return envelope with tracking