Enabling ease to apply for Indian Visa, Rajnath Singh inaugurates largest Visa Center in Dhaka

Dhaka, July 14: Having a successful bilateral meeting with the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Home Minister Rajnath Singh headed to inaugurate the Indian Visa Application Centre at Jamuna Future Park in Dhaka and handed over passports with Indian visa to a couple of visa applicants.

The Home Minister was accompanied by his counterpart Asaduzzaman Khan to the Jamuna Future Park. This new India Visa Application Center (IVAC) at Jamuna Future Park will replace all the existing IVACs (Motijheel, Uttara, Gulshan and Mirpur Road) in Dhaka in two phases. The existing e-token (appointment) system for submission of Indian visa applications has been simultaneously withdrawn.

The new IVAC in JFP will replace the existing IVACs in Motijheel and Uttara from July 15. The remaining two IVACs in Dhaka (Gulshan and Mirpur Road) will also be shifted to IVAC, JFP by August 31. There will be only one IVAC at JFP for all categories of visa applications without a prior appointment in Dhaka.

 

The new IVAC in JFP is a model visa center, said the Indian high commission in Dhaka. Located in an 18,500 square feet commercial area, the IVAC will have facilities like computer-generated token vending machines (expected waiting time will be indicated), comfortable seating arrangements in an air-conditioned waiting area, coffee and soft drinks vending machines, food kiosks and as many as 48 countries for submission of applications.

Separate counters will be reserved for senior citizens, women and business applicants. A special help desk and counter for services, including printing, photocopying etc. will be accessible at cost prices. The location of the new IVAC inside a spacious and secure shopping mall is expected to provide comfortable and seamless visa services to applicants and is expected to reduce waiting time considerably.

The consolidation of visa application services at the JFP and the provision of amenities reflect the continuing efforts of the High Commission of India, in collaboration with its outsourced partners, the State Bank of India, to further streamline the Indian visa application process and strengthen people-to-people contacts between India and Bangladesh.