Verified as of August 2026. Visa rules change without notice. Confirm every requirement on the official portal or with the relevant embassy in Dhaka before you apply or book anything.
Short answer. On an ordinary Bangladeshi passport you need a visa arranged in advance for both countries. Jordan does not accept Bangladeshi nationals through its online eVisa system, so the route is an application to the Jordanian mission. Egypt has a reported conditional visa on arrival for Bangladeshis who already hold a valid, used visa or residence permit from Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom or a Schengen state. Everyone else applies at the Embassy of Egypt in Dhaka. That conditional rule is contested between sources, and we could not confirm its current status on an Egyptian government page.
If you only read one more paragraph, read this one: several pages currently ranking for this search say plainly that a Bangladeshi passport gets a visa on arrival at Cairo, with no condition attached. The Daily Star reported the facility as conditional on what is already in your passport, and reported it with an end date. Those two versions cannot both be safe to act on, and the cost of picking the wrong one is being denied boarding in Dhaka.
The two routes at a glance
| Egypt | Jordan | |
|---|---|---|
| Online eVisa for a Bangladeshi passport | Egypt runs an official e-visa portal at visa2egypt.gov.eg, and the eligible-nationality list is held on that portal. We could not confirm Bangladesh on it. | Not available. Bangladesh is among the nationalities excluded from Jordan’s eVisa program, as reported across the Jordan visa sources checked. |
| Visa on arrival | Conditional and contested. Reported as open only to holders of a valid, used Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, US, UK or Schengen visa or residence permit. | Not the published route for Bangladeshi nationals. |
| The route to plan on | Application to the Embassy of Egypt in Dhaka, in person. | Application to the Jordanian mission handling Bangladesh. |
| Passport validity | At least six months beyond your intended departure from Egypt. | At least six months, per the requirement lists published for Jordan. |
Sources named inline through this article, checked August 2026. Where a claim comes from a news report or a commercial visa site rather than a government page, this article says so instead of hiding it.
Egypt: the conditional on-arrival rule, and why you should not board on it
Here is the rule as reported. The Daily Star reported that the Egyptian government introduced an on-arrival visa for Bangladeshi citizens, available only to those carrying valid, used visas or residence permits from Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom, or European countries of the Schengen area, and usable at any Egyptian port of entry.
Read the condition word by word, because every word narrows it:
- Valid. Not expired.
- Used. A visa you were granted but never traveled on is not the same thing as a visa you have actually entered on.
- Visa or residence permit. A residence permit from one of those countries counts in its own right.
- From that specific list. A visa from anywhere else, including any Gulf state, does not appear in the reported condition.
Now the part that no page ranking for this search mentions. The facility was announced as time-limited. Reporting on it describes the arrangement as applicable until a stated month at the initial stage, with the possibility of extension through talks between the two countries. That is a very different thing from a standing entry rule. An arrangement that runs to a date and is renewed by negotiation can lapse quietly, and when it lapses, every guide on the internet keeps describing it for months afterwards.
We tried to settle this against an Egyptian government source. The official e-visa portal at visa2egypt.gov.eg describes the application steps but did not surface an eligible-nationality list we could read, and no Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs or Embassy of Egypt in Dhaka page confirming or withdrawing the conditional on-arrival facility could be retrieved for this article.
So here is the honest instruction. Do not treat the on-arrival route as your plan. If you hold one of the qualifying documents and want to use it, call the Embassy of Egypt in Dhaka and ask them directly whether the facility is currently in force, and separately confirm with your airline that they will board you on it. Airlines carry the fine when a passenger is refused entry, which is why the check-in counter is often stricter than the border.
Egypt: applying at the embassy in Dhaka
For everyone without a qualifying visa or residence permit, the route is a paper application submitted in person. The Embassy of Egypt in Dhaka is published as being in Gulshan 2, Dhaka.
The document set that the published requirement lists agree on:
- A completed application form
- A valid Bangladeshi passport with at least six months of validity beyond your intended departure from Egypt
- Recent photographs meeting the specification the embassy sets
- Proof of accommodation, such as a hotel booking, or an invitation letter from a host in Egypt
- A return or onward ticket showing you intend to leave before the visa expires
- Evidence of funds for the trip
- Travel medical insurance, which appears on most published lists
Two notes on validity that you will see quoted widely. The short-stay Egyptian visa is commonly described as valid for 90 days with a permitted stay of up to 30 days on a single entry, and a multiple-entry version as valid for 180 days. Treat those as the general shape rather than as your own numbers. The validity and permitted stay printed on the visa you are issued are the only figures that govern your trip.
We do not publish a fee. A non-refundable application fee applies and is published by the embassy; ask them for the current figure when you confirm the checklist.
Jordan: why the eVisa is not open to you
Jordan runs an online eVisa, and a large share of the pages ranking for Jordan visa searches are built around it. Bangladesh is among the nationalities excluded from that program, as stated across the Jordan visa sources checked for this article. If a site invites you to apply for a Jordan eVisa with a Bangladeshi passport, either it has not updated its eligibility list or it is selling you a submission service for a route you cannot use.
The published route is an application to the Jordanian mission, with the familiar set: a passport valid at least six months, the completed form, recent photographs, proof of accommodation, a return flight ticket, travel insurance, and evidence of sufficient funds.
One practical caution specific to Jordan. Bangladesh does not host a full Jordanian embassy handling every consular function in the way that, say, India or Thailand does, and several of the sources describing “the Jordan embassy in Dhaka” are directory pages rather than the mission itself. Before you assemble documents, confirm which mission is accredited to Bangladesh for visas and where your application is physically submitted. Bangladesh’s own Embassy in Amman publishes consular information for the other direction and is a reasonable place to start asking.
The pattern: what is already in your passport decides your route
This is the real lesson of the Egypt row, and it repeats across this cluster.
For a growing number of destinations, the question is not “what does a Bangladeshi passport get” but “what else is stamped in this particular Bangladeshi passport”. Egypt’s reported on-arrival facility turns on holding a used Western visa. Turkey’s e-Visa is conditional in exactly the same way, requiring a valid Schengen, US, UK or Ireland visa or residence permit. The Saudi tourist visa route has its own version of the same shortcut.
The practical consequence is worth stating plainly. Your first approved visa to a major destination is worth more than the trip itself, because it changes which doors open next. If you are early in this and choosing where to go first, the visa-free and visa-on-arrival list for a Bangladeshi passport is the right place to start, and the Gulf states guide covers the region most Bangladeshi readers try before Egypt.
What we could not verify, stated plainly
Good visa content should tell you where it is thin. On this topic, three gaps:
- No Egyptian government page confirming, extending or withdrawing the conditional on-arrival facility for Bangladeshi nationals could be retrieved in August 2026. Everything above about that rule traces to news reporting and to secondary visa sites, not to Cairo.
- Sources directly contradict each other on whether an ordinary Bangladeshi passport, with no Western visa in it, is issued a visa on arrival at Cairo. Some commercial pages say yes. The conditional reporting says no. We are not resolving that for you, because we cannot, and because a wrong answer here costs you the price of a ticket.
- Transit through Cairo is its own question. Layover rules, the airside transit area, and Egypt’s free 96-hour transit program for certain nationalities and carriers are separate from the tourist visa. If your itinerary connects through Cairo, ask your airline in writing whether you may remain airside on a Bangladeshi passport for your specific connection time.
None of that is a reason to avoid Egypt. It is a reason to get your answer from the embassy and your airline rather than from any article, including this one.
FAQ
Do Bangladeshi citizens need a visa for Egypt?
Yes. On an ordinary Bangladeshi passport a visa is required for Egypt. The Daily Star reported a conditional on-arrival facility for Bangladeshis holding a valid, used visa or residence permit from Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom or a Schengen country. That facility was reported as time-limited and we could not confirm its current status on an Egyptian government page, so plan on applying at the Embassy of Egypt in Dhaka unless the embassy tells you otherwise.
Can Bangladeshis get an Egypt e-visa online?
Egypt operates an official e-visa portal at visa2egypt.gov.eg, and the eligible-nationality list is maintained on that portal rather than reproduced reliably elsewhere. We could not confirm Bangladesh on that list in August 2026. Check the portal itself, and be careful: a large number of lookalike sites use government-style names and charge a service fee on top.
Is Jordan giving eVisas to Bangladeshi passport holders?
No. Bangladesh is among the nationalities excluded from Jordan’s eVisa program, according to the Jordan visa sources checked for this article. The route for a Bangladeshi applicant is an application to the Jordanian mission accredited to Bangladesh, with the standard document set.
What documents does the Egyptian embassy in Dhaka ask for?
The published lists agree on a completed application form, a passport valid at least six months beyond your departure from Egypt, recent photographs to the embassy’s specification, proof of accommodation or an invitation letter, a return or onward ticket, evidence of funds, and travel medical insurance. Confirm the current checklist with the embassy in Gulshan 2 before you assemble anything, because published lists go out of date and the embassy’s own version is the one that counts.
How much does an Egypt visa cost for a Bangladeshi?
This guide does not quote a figure. A non-refundable application fee applies and is published by the embassy or displayed by the official portal during the application. Ask the embassy for the current amount when you confirm the document checklist.
Checked August 2026. Sources named inline: The Daily Star, for the report that Egypt introduced an on-arrival visa for Bangladeshi citizens limited to holders of valid, used visas or residence permits from Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom and Schengen countries, and for the report that the facility carried an initial end date extendable by talks between the two countries; Egypt’s official e-visa portal visa2egypt.gov.eg, for the application-step structure and for the fact that the eligible-nationality list is held on the portal itself; and the published requirement lists and directory entries for the Embassy of Egypt in Dhaka (Gulshan 2) and for Jordan’s eVisa exclusions, which are secondary sources and are identified as such in the text. No Egyptian government confirmation of the current on-arrival status could be retrieved, and this is stated in the article rather than papered over. No fee is quoted for either country and no processing time is promised. Review interval: 90 days. This is documented process, not immigration advice, and no one can promise an application will be approved.