India lifts e-token from all visa centres in Bangladesh

No Bangladesh national with a confirmed air, bus or train ticket to India will require an e-token or online appointment date to apply for a tourist visa from Feb 1.

The date of journey should be within one month of the date of submission of the visa application, the Indian High Commission said in a statement on Sunday.

The walk-in tourist visa scheme was launched first in October 2016 for female travellers and their family members, and thereafter extended to all Bangladesh travellers from Jan 1 in Dhaka.

Now it is extended further to the remaining eight visa application centres in Rajshahi, Rangpur, Sylhet, Chittagong, Khulna, Jessore, Mymensingh and Barisal.

"This initiative is part of the ongoing efforts to streamline, liberalise and ease the process of securing Indian visas," the high commission statement reads.

Further details are available at www.ivacbd.com.