The Indian Visa Application Center (IVAC) has
started offering limited appointment slots for Bangladesh nationals requiring
urgent medical and student visas.
The IVAC has been offering the service from its at five locations in Dhaka,
Chittagong, Rajshahi, Sylhet and Khulna, according to the IVAC official
website.
Besides, these five IVAC have also opened limited appointment slots for
urgent cases where Bangladesh students and workers need to travel to third
countries and for which they already have visa appointments with foreign
embassies in India.
In view of the current situation, IVAC is currently processing only limited
number of visas of emergency and humanitarian nature.
“For other pending applications, we are returning the passports keeping in
view that many applicants may need their passport back for other needs,” read
the website.
Once the IVAC returns to normal operations after the normalization of
security situation, it will process the pending applications and ask the visa
seekers
to resubmit their passports if visa application are approved.
Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha