Bangladeshi passport holders need a Malaysia eVisa approved before departure. Applied for entirely online from Dhaka, Chattogram or anywhere else — no embassy visit, no agent queue. Applications from Bangladesh are assessed closely, and this page explains exactly what evidence to prepare.
30 days
Maximum stay per visit
90 days
eVisa validity from approval
3–7 days
Typical processing time
Any port
Entry point accepted
100% online
No embassy visit
Important for Bangladeshi citizens
Applications from Bangladesh are among the most closely assessed Malaysian Immigration receives, and refusals are almost always about the evidence file rather than the traveller. Bank statements covering three to six months, a genuine employment letter and a confirmed return ticket are the three documents that decide most cases. Prepare them before you start rather than during the application.
Overview
Malaysia and Bangladesh are bound together more tightly than the tourism figures alone suggest. Malaysia has been one of the largest destinations for Bangladeshi workers for three decades, Kuala Lumpur has a substantial Bangladeshi community, and the trade and remittance corridor between the two countries runs in both directions. For Bangladeshi visitors the country is a four-hour flight away, Muslim-majority, English-speaking in practice, and far cheaper than the Gulf or Singapore.
That closeness does not extend to visa-free access. Bangladesh is on Malaysia's visa-required list, and Bangladeshi citizens must hold an approved visa before boarding. The eVisa system replaced the embassy queue for tourist and business visits — the entire application is completed online, with documents uploaded rather than submitted in person, and the approval emailed as a PDF.
The practical difficulty is not the form but the file. Bangladesh is one of the nationalities where Malaysian Immigration examines financial and employment evidence in detail, because the visitor route has historically been misused to enter the labour market. That is not a judgement on any individual applicant, but it does mean a thin application gets refused where the same trip with a properly documented file gets approved. Almost everything on this page is about getting that file right the first time.
At a glance
Eligibility
Yes — every Bangladeshi citizen needs a visa to enter Malaysia, for any purpose and any length of stay. There is no visa-free allowance, no visa on arrival at Kuala Lumpur, and no transit exemption that lets you leave the airport. The visa must be approved before you board, and airlines at Dhaka will not check you in without it.
For tourism, family visits and business trips, the eVisa is the route. It covers the Single Entry Tourist visa, the Multiple Entry visa and the Business visa, all applied for online with documents uploaded rather than lodged at the High Commission. For a normal holiday or a visit to relatives in Kuala Lumpur, the Single Entry Tourist eVisa is what you need.
It does not cover work, and this distinction matters more for Bangladesh than for almost any other nationality. Employment in Malaysia requires a Visit Pass (Temporary Employment) arranged by a licensed Malaysian employer through the official recruitment channel, with the calling visa issued in Malaysia before you travel. An eVisa used to enter and then look for work is a serious immigration offence, and it is the specific pattern that causes applications from Bangladesh to be scrutinised in the first place.
Study is separate too. A course at a Malaysian college or university requires a Student Pass arranged through the institution and Education Malaysia Global Services, applied for well before travel. You cannot arrive on a tourist eVisa and convert it.
Every traveller needs their own eVisa, including babies and children, each linked to that person's own Bangladeshi passport. A child cannot be added to a parent's application.
Which one to choose
Three products, all applied for the same way online. The right one depends on how many times you intend to enter Malaysia and why you are going.
A one-off holiday, a family visit, or a first trip to Malaysia.
Regional itineraries that dip in and out of Malaysia, and frequent visitors.
Meetings, conferences, trade fairs and site visits. Not valid for paid work.
Stay & validity
A Single Entry Tourist eVisa is valid for 90 days from the date it is approved, and that is the deadline by which you must arrive in Malaysia. Once you enter, you are granted a stay of up to 30 days, stamped in your passport. These are two different clocks and confusing them is the most common misreading of the scheme.
The Multiple Entry eVisa runs for three or six months from approval and permits unlimited entries with each visit capped at 30 days. For Bangladeshi business travellers making regular trips to Kuala Lumpur, it removes the need to reapply for every visit, but expect the supporting evidence to be examined more closely than for a single tourist entry.
Your Bangladeshi passport must be valid for at least six months from your date of arrival, with at least one blank page for the entry stamp. Bangladesh's e-passports are issued for five or ten years; check the expiry date before applying, because the eVisa is tied to the passport number and does not transfer to a renewed document. A reissued passport means a fresh application at full cost.
The eVisa cannot be extended once issued. If you want to stay longer than the 30 days granted on arrival, you must leave Malaysia and apply again from outside. There is no in-country extension route for eVisa holders and no discretion at the immigration office to grant one.
Overstaying carries compound fines charged per day, and beyond a short overstay the consequences escalate to detention, deportation at your own expense and a blacklisting that blocks re-entry for years. Malaysia enforces this consistently with Bangladeshi nationals. Read the date on your entry stamp before leaving the counter, and treat it as fixed.
Pricing
Live fees for Bangladeshi passport holders, shown all-in — the Malaysian government charge and our service fee together, with nothing added later.
Your nationality is pre-selected as Bangladesh
Requirements
Everything Bangladeshi passport holders need before starting an application. The first five items apply to every applicant; the rest are specific to your nationality.
Passport bio-data page — a clear colour scan showing your photograph, full name, date of birth, passport number and expiry date, with at least six months of validity remaining
Recent passport-style photograph — white background, full face visible, taken within the last six months, with no headwear other than for religious reasons
Confirmed return or onward flight ticket showing you will leave Malaysia within the permitted stay
Proof of accommodation for the whole of your visit — hotel bookings, or an invitation letter and address if you are staying with family or friends
A credit or debit card to pay the Malaysian government fee and our service fee together, plus an email address you can access while travelling
Applications from Bangladesh are assessed more closely than average, and an incomplete file is the single biggest cause of refusal. Prepare these before you start.
Simple process
Four steps, entirely online, with our team checking every field before anything reaches Malaysian Immigration.
Enter your passport details exactly as printed, choose your visa type and upload your photograph and supporting documents. Most applicants finish in under fifteen minutes.
Our team checks your photograph, passport number, name spelling, itinerary and supporting documents against Malaysian Immigration requirements before anything is submitted.
Your application goes to the Department of Immigration Malaysia with the government fee paid, and we track its status until a decision is issued.
The approved eVisa is emailed to you as a PDF. Print a copy and keep it with your passport — airlines and immigration officers both ask to see it.
Malaysia eVisa applications from Bangladesh typically take five to ten working days, longer than the three-to-seven-day standard quoted for most nationalities. The extra time reflects the closer assessment applied to the market rather than any backlog, and applications with a complete evidence file move through it noticeably faster than those that trigger a document request.
Apply three to four weeks before you travel. This is the single most useful thing on this page. A document query on a Bangladeshi application is common and entirely survivable, but only if there is time to answer it — applicants who apply a week before departure routinely lose their flights, not because they were refused but because the clock ran out.
Prepare the financial evidence before you begin rather than during. Statements need to be stamped by the bank, cover a genuine three to six months, and show a pattern consistent with the trip you are describing. Assembling them mid-application, under time pressure, is how applicants end up submitting the thin file that gets queried.
Bangladesh is two hours behind Malaysia, so a query raised in Kuala Lumpur during their working day reaches you the same morning. Watch the email address you applied with — including its spam folder — for the whole processing period, because a request answered within a day rarely costs you the trip.
On arrival
An approved eVisa gets you on the plane. This is what happens once you land — including the arrival card that catches out more travellers than the visa itself.
Every traveller must submit the MDAC online within three days before arrival. It is not part of the eVisa, it is not optional, and airlines increasingly check it at the gate. It takes a couple of minutes and must be done for each traveller individually.
Malaysia issues the eVisa as a PDF rather than attaching it to the passport chip. Airline staff at check-in and the immigration officer on arrival both ask to see it, so carry a printed copy as well as the file on your phone.
The automated gates at KLIA are for Malaysian citizens, residents and a small number of registered categories. Visitors arriving on an eVisa are seen at a staffed counter, where the passport is stamped with the date of entry.
The officer may ask where you are staying, how long you intend to remain and how the trip is funded. Having your hotel booking, return ticket and, if you are visiting family, their address to hand makes this a thirty-second conversation.
Flying from Kuala Lumpur to Kota Kinabalu or Kuching means passing through immigration again on arrival, even though it is a domestic flight. Your eVisa covers it, but keep your passport accessible rather than packed.
The stamp records the date you entered and the date by which you must leave. Overstaying in Malaysia carries fines, detention and a re-entry ban, and the stamp is the only record of your deadline — so read it while you are still at the counter.
Getting there
Dhaka has a solid direct link to Kuala Lumpur, served by both flag carriers and the low-cost operators, with Malaysia Airlines and Batik Air Malaysia the mainstays. Journey times are short enough that Malaysia competes directly with the Gulf as a regional destination from Bangladesh, and one-stop routings through Bangkok, Singapore and the Gulf add depth when direct fares spike.
Best time to go
Malaysia stays between about 25°C and 33°C all year, so Bangladeshi visitors will find the heat familiar and the humidity comparable to a Dhaka summer. What changes by month is rainfall, and it changes regionally — the west coast, including Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Langkawi, is driest from December to March, while the east coast islands are closed by the monsoon from November to February.
December to March is the strongest window for a first visit, lining up with the driest weather on the Kuala Lumpur–Penang–Langkawi route and with the cooler, more comfortable months in Bangladesh for the journey out. July and August also work well and sit outside the Malaysian school peak.
Fares from Dhaka spike around the two Eids and the winter holiday period, and Eid in particular affects both ends — Malaysia's own Hari Raya travel fills domestic flights and hotels for several days. If your dates are flexible, moving a week either side of Eid changes the fare noticeably.
Ramadan is worth planning around deliberately rather than avoiding. Malaysia is a Muslim-majority country, so fasting is straightforward, mosques are everywhere and the Ramadan bazaars in Kuala Lumpur are a genuine attraction. Restaurant hours shift and some attractions run reduced schedules, but for Bangladeshi Muslim travellers it is often an easier time to visit than a Western destination in the same period.
Avoid these
Most refusals are avoidable and technical rather than substantive. These are the problems that come up most often on applications from Bangladesh — we check for every one of them before submitting.
The most common refusal cause for Bangladeshi applications. A large sum credited days before applying, on an account that otherwise sits near zero, reads as funds borrowed for the application. Malaysian Immigration looks at the pattern across three to six months, not the closing balance. A modest but consistent balance is far stronger evidence than a sudden large one.
Letters without a phone number, a company address, a named signatory or a letterhead invite a verification call that fails. If your employer is small, include the trade licence and a business card alongside the letter. An unverifiable letter is worse than a plain one.
Bangladeshi applications take five to ten working days and frequently attract a document request. Applying late means the query arrives after you needed to fly. Three to four weeks is the realistic lead time, and there is no expedited route that buys you out of it.
Employment in Malaysia requires a Visit Pass (Temporary Employment) arranged by a licensed employer before you travel. Entering on a tourist eVisa to look for work is a serious offence, and it is the specific pattern that causes every Bangladeshi application to be examined more closely. It ends in detention and a long re-entry ban.
An itinerary that could belong to anyone reads as filler. A specific plan naming the places you will be on which dates, matching your hotel bookings and your return ticket, is a genuinely persuasive document and takes twenty minutes to write properly.
The MDAC is separate from the eVisa and required for every traveller, submitted online within three days before arrival. An approved eVisa does not cover it, and airlines at Dhaka increasingly check for it at the gate alongside the visa.
Passport number mistyped
By far the most common problem. The eVisa attaches to the number you enter, so a single wrong character produces an approval that does not match the document you present at check-in.
Insufficient proof of funds
Malaysian Immigration wants to see that you can support yourself for the whole visit. Thin statements, a balance deposited in a lump sum days before applying, or no statements at all are the leading cause of refusal.
A photograph that fails the check
Shadows across the face, a coloured or patterned background, glasses, or a scan cropped too tightly all cause rejection. Malaysia is stricter than most on the plain white background requirement.
Conditions
These conditions are set by the Department of Immigration Malaysia and do not vary by nationality. The 90-day validity and the 30-day stay are different things, and confusing them is the most common misreading of the whole scheme.
Your approval is issued against the passport number you enter. If you renew or replace that passport before travelling, the eVisa does not transfer — you must apply again on the new document, and there is no refund on the old one.
Every person travelling needs their own eVisa, including babies and children. A child cannot be added to a parent's application, and each traveller needs their own valid passport to apply against.
A Single Entry eVisa is valid for 90 days from the date it is approved, and that is the window in which you must arrive. The stay it grants once you enter is separate and shorter — up to 30 days. The two are routinely confused.
The Malaysia eVisa is not extendable. If you want to stay longer you must leave the country and apply again from outside. Building an extension into your plans is not an option, so book the trip you actually intend to take.
Unlike India's eVisa, Malaysia's is not restricted to designated airports. You may enter through any authorised international airport, seaport or land checkpoint, which makes overland arrivals from Thailand and Singapore straightforward.
An approved eVisa gets you on the plane. The decision to admit you is made by the immigration officer on arrival, who can ask about your funds, your accommodation, your onward ticket and the purpose of your visit.
Consular services
As a fellow Commonwealth member, Bangladesh hosts a Malaysian High Commission rather than an embassy. It plays no part in issuing an eVisa — the application is completed online and decided digitally, with no interview, no appointment and no passport submission. The High Commission handles consular assistance, employment and student pass matters, and the cases where a visitor visa is not the appropriate route.
FAQs
The questions Bangladeshi passport holders ask most often about travelling to Malaysia.
Yes. Bangladesh is on Malaysia's visa-required list, so every Bangladeshi citizen needs an approved visa before boarding, regardless of the length or purpose of the visit. For tourism, family visits and business trips, the eVisa is applied for entirely online with documents uploaded rather than lodged at the High Commission.
No. There is no visa on arrival for Bangladeshi nationals at Malaysian airports, and no transit exemption that allows you to leave the airport. Your visa must be approved before you fly — airlines at Dhaka will not check you in without it, because the carrier is liable if Malaysia refuses entry.
Malaysia does not publish a fixed figure, but the account should comfortably cover your trip and show a consistent history over three to six months. The pattern matters more than the number — a steady balance is far stronger evidence than a large deposit credited shortly before the application, which is a recognised refusal trigger.
Typically five to ten working days, longer than the standard quoted for most nationalities, because applications from Bangladesh are assessed more closely. Apply three to four weeks before you travel so that a document query can be answered without losing your flights.
Up to 30 days per entry, stamped in your passport on arrival. The eVisa itself is valid for 90 days from approval, but that is the deadline to arrive rather than the length of your stay. The 30 days cannot be extended from inside Malaysia — to stay longer you must leave and apply again.
No, and attempting it is a serious immigration offence. Employment requires a Visit Pass (Temporary Employment) arranged by a licensed Malaysian employer through the official recruitment channel, with the calling visa issued before you travel. Entering as a visitor to look for work leads to detention, deportation and a long re-entry ban.
A passport valid six months beyond arrival, stamped bank statements covering three to six months, an employment letter confirming your position and approved leave, a confirmed return ticket, hotel bookings or an invitation letter, a white-background photograph and a specific day-by-day itinerary. The financial and employment evidence carries the most weight.
Yes. Every traveller needs their own eVisa regardless of age, including babies, and each is linked to that person's own Bangladeshi passport. A child cannot be added to a parent's application. Include the child's birth certificate and, where only one parent is travelling, a consent letter from the other.
Yes. The Multiple Entry eVisa is valid for three or six months from approval and allows unlimited entries with each visit capped at 30 days. It suits regular business travellers, though the supporting evidence is examined more closely than for a single tourist entry, so a clear business rationale and a record of previous compliant travel both help.
Yes. The MDAC is a separate online form submitted within the three days before you arrive, and an approved eVisa does not cover it. Each traveller submits their own, including children, and airlines at Dhaka increasingly check it at the boarding gate alongside your visa and return ticket.
Your nationality is already set to Bangladesh. Complete the form in under fifteen minutes, and our team will check every detail before it reaches Malaysian Immigration.
Other nationalities
Requirements, supporting documents and routes differ by passport. Here are the guides for other eligible nationalities.
