The Dhaka Times Desk You may be surprised to see such news. But the story is true. You can go to 50 countries without a visa if you only have a Bangladeshi passport!
If this incident is true then you can be proud as a Bangladeshi no doubt. The reason is that you can travel to at least 50 countries with just a Bangladeshi passport without a visa. Recently financial sector advisory firm Arton Capital has compiled a list of influential passports. And it has been seen that the position of Bangladesh is 67th.
According to Orton Capital's controlled PassportIndex.org website, Bangladeshi passport holders can travel to 50 countries without a visa. In some of these countries, Bangladeshi passport holders do not require any visa. In almost all the rest of the countries, you have to get an 'on arrival visa' upon reaching there. And, a couple of countries have different arrangements.
Passport Index.org lists the passport implications of various countries. The list is based on the number of times passport holders of a country travel to other countries without a visa.
Countries that can be visited and stayed without a visa are:
# Bhutan within Asia Continent (As many days as desired)
# Sri Lanka (30 days)
# Kenya within the African continent (3 months)
# Malawi (90 days)
# Seychelles (1 month)
# Dominica within the Americas (21 days)
# Haiti (3 months)
# Granada (3 months)
# St. Kitts and Nevis (3 months)
# Saint Vincent and Grenada Islands (1 month)
# Turks and Caicos Islands (30 days)
# Montserrat (3 months)
# British Virgin Islands (30 days)
# Fiji within the Oceania continent (6 months)
# Cook Islands (31 days)
# Nauru (30 days)
# Palau (30 days)
# Samoa (60 days)
# Tuvalu (1 month)
# Nuu (30 days)
# Vanuatu (30 days)
# Macronesia Tilparashtra (30 days) is one of them.
Also the countries where visa on arrival is available are:
# Asia to Azerbaijan (30 days, fee $100)
# Georgia (3 months)
# Laus (30 days, fee $30)
# Maldives (30 days)
# Macau (30 days)
# Nepal (60 days, fee $30)
# Syria (15 days)
# East Timor (30 days, fee $30)
# within the African continent Burundi, Cape Verde, Comoros, Djibouti (1 month, fee 500 Djiboutian francs)
# Madagascar (90 days, free 140,000 mga)
# Mozambique (30 days, fee $25)
# Togo (7 days, fee 35,000 XDF)
# Uganda (3 months, fee $30).
However, some opportunistic officers may harass you to earn two-pie by saying that you don't have a visa or you will have a problem at the time of departure to Bangladesh airport. Anyone who wants to visit these countries can get more information while buying tickets. And you must have the return ticket and hotel booking paper.
If you have any doubts about this, you can check it by searching on Google. Embassies of all countries have e-websites, you can check the information from there. If it's a different language, use Google Translator.