Embassy appointments and fees for attestation

Every Bangladesh mission abroad runs its own consular counter, publishes its own fee schedule and manages appointments its own way. That is the fact people most often get wrong: they read a fee or a booking process for one mission, turn up at another, and find neither matches. This page explains how to work out the answer for your mission, and deliberately publishes no figures at all.

The short answer

Fees and appointment rules vary by mission and change without notice. Check the schedule published by the mission covering where you live, on the day you pay.
Confirm the payment method before you travel. Being turned away for the wrong form of payment is the most common wasted trip in this whole process.
Confirm the service is offered at all for your document type before you book — not every mission attests everything.
Work out your legalisation route first, or you may be booking a step you do not need: see apostille vs embassy attestation.

Which mission is yours

Missions cover defined territories — an embassy or high commission in the capital, plus consulates covering particular states or regions. You are normally expected to use the one covering your address, and using the wrong one can mean a refusal at the counter rather than a helpful redirection.

If you have moved recently, check which mission covers your new address before assuming it is still the one you used last time. And if you hold documents issued in a third country, confirm which mission handles those, since the answer is not always the one covering where you live.

How appointments generally work

Missions typically require an appointment for consular services, booked through whatever system that mission uses. Some counters take walk-ins for some services; many do not. Slots can be scarce around holidays and school breaks, which is exactly when the diaspora travels, so book earlier than feels necessary.

Before you book, get three things straight:

That the mission performs the service you need, for your document type.
Whether you must attend in person, whether someone may attend for you, and whether the service can be done by post.
What must already be done to the document before the appointment — an earlier link in the legalisation chain, a notarisation, a translation. Read document checklists and build the list from the mission’s own published requirements.

Missions close on the public holidays of both Bangladesh and the host country, and those two calendars do not overlap. Check the mission’s holiday notice against your travel plans rather than assuming a working week.

Fees: check, do not assume

Missions publish current fee schedules. They differ between missions, they differ by service, and they are revised from time to time. For that reason this site publishes no consular fee figures whatsoever — a stale number here would be worse than no number, because you would act on it.

What to establish before you go:

The exact fee for your exact service, from the mission’s own published schedule.
Whether fees differ per document, per copy or per page.
The accepted payment method, precisely. Consular counters often refuse personal cheques or cards and require a specific instrument made out in a specific name and exact amount. Get the payee name spelled exactly as the mission writes it.
Whether the fee is refundable if the application is refused. Usually assume it is not.
Whether return postage or courier is a separate charge you must arrange.

If someone quotes you a fee without asking which mission and which service, they are quoting from memory. Do not act on it.

Using an agent

Agencies will handle attestation for a fee on top of the consular charge. Some are genuinely useful for the running around; none of them can make a mission accept a document it would otherwise refuse. If you use one, ask for the consular fee and their service fee separately and in writing, keep copies of everything before you hand originals over, and be sceptical of any promise of a guaranteed turnaround. Nobody outside the mission controls the mission’s queue.

Plan for the trip, not just the appointment

If your nearest mission is a flight away, cost the day realistically: travel, the appointment, and the real possibility of a second visit because something was missing. That is the argument for over-preparing the bundle — see the checklist page — and for asking every question by email in advance.

If you are also renewing travel documents on the same trip, check whether both services can be booked on one visit; the passport cluster covers that side.

What we could not verify

Every fee. No consular fee figure appears on this page by design.
Processing and turnaround times for any mission or service.
Appointment systems, booking URLs and walk-in policies — these are mission-specific and we do not reproduce them.
Which services each mission offers, including whether it attests your document type after the March 2025 change.
Accepted payment instruments and payee names.
Jurisdiction boundaries between missions.

This page is general guidance, not legal advice. Confirm everything above with the mission itself before you travel or pay.