Je voulais savoir si quelqu'un sait (et est sur si possible...) si il est possible d'obtenir un visa Indien au Bangladesh, a Dacca ou ailleurs...
Je n'arrive pas a trouver de reponse ferme et recente a ce sujet sur le forum.
Il y a bien plusieurs ambassade et consulats indiens au Bangladesh, mais je n'arrive pas a etre sur qu'ils delivrent bien le visa indien pour les etrangers.
Bref, si quelqu'un a fait cette demarche recement et peut me renseigner c'est cool...
Je suis actuelemt a Dwarka, je dois quitter le pays d'ici un mois et demi et j'irai bien faire un tour au Bangladesh en demandant un nouveau visa. Mais j'ai pas trop envie d'etre coince la bas et de devoir sortir du Bangladesh par avion
Merci d'avnces et beaux voyages
Arnaud
Arnaud
le voyage aussi a ses raisons que la raison ignore...
as tu eu une reponse a ta question cela minteresee? sais tu sil y a une frontiere terrestre douverte dans le nord du bangladesh et si un visa de transit existe pour linde? car nous souhaitons aller au nepal par le nord du bangla via linde et en stop
Et tu as bien fait, parce que pour renouveller son visa Indien à Dakha, c'est une merde sans nom !!!! Je suis en plein dedans... Completement kafkaien !
Pour ceux qui seraient tentés de faire la même chose, voici quelques explications sur le processus d'obtention du visa indien au Bangladesh.
Tout d'abord il faut savoir que les étrangers sont traités au même régime que les hordes de locaux qui tentent d'obtenir un visa indien. Donc si vous espérez obtenir un visa en 3 jours, ce n'est pas au Bangladesh qu'il faut aller.
Il faut remplir une application "online" puis tenter d'obtenir un RV pour deposer votre demande. Vous ne pourrez même pas déposer votre demande en dehors du jour de ce RV. Le probleme est d'obtenir cette fameuse date, que le systeme est censé pour donner. Et votre application n'est valable que pendant 5 jours, donc si apres de multiples essais, vous n'avez toujours pas obtenu de date, vous n'avez plus qu'à recommencer le processus et refaire une application.... Et il faut savoir que cette date peut etre 3, 4, 5, ou 6 semaines apres la création de votre demande.
Il y a 3 centres de demandes de Visa : Dhaka, Chittagong, et Rajshahi. J'ai fait mes premieres demandes à Dhaka, et n'ai jamais pu obtenir de date de RV. J'ai tenté d'aller à l'Ambassade (High Commission) pour expliquer que je n'avais pas beaucoup de temps, et que je n'avais pas reussi à obtenir de date, peine perdue. La nana des services m'a juste répondu "keep trying"...
J'ai donc fait une demande à Chittagong, et obtenu un RV pour 5 semaines aprés, m'obligeant à rester au Bangla 3 semaines de plus que prévu, et à demander une extension de visa bangla. A Chittagong, j'ai été reçu plutot cordialement, et n'ai pas eu de problemes pour obtenir le visa.
Donc, ce qu'il faut savoir : si vous voulez tenter d'aller obtenir votre visa indien au Bangla, prenez-vous y à l'avance (genre 5 ou 6 semaines avant -- vous pouvez bien sur le faire même d'Inde puisque tout se passe par internet jusqu'à l'obtention de cette fameuse date de rendez-vous.
Sinon, il y a aussi l'autre piste du bakchich... Il parait qu'il y a des "intermédiaires" spécialisés qui peuvent vous avoir votre visa en 3 ou 4 jours à condition de racker... C'est un choix (éthique...).
En fait d'intermédiaire spécialisé, en France ça s'appelle VSF (ou autres), et au lieu de "racker" on paie pour un service, est-ce que cela change l'éthique ? Tu crois que parce que tu es dans un pays en voie de développement, on va t'offrir ce service pour tes beaux yeux bleus (ou verts, ou gris, mais pas noirs) Et quand bien sûr tu demandes un visa depuis l'étranger pour un pays voisin, tu vas devoir de mélanger à la horde de locaux, qui sont aussi des étrangers pour le pays pour lequel ils ont besoin d'un visa, qu'est-ce que tu crois, qu'on va te dérouler un tapis rouge ?
Quand je parle d'intermédiaires spécialisés, je ne parle pas d'officines officielles qui tarifient, effectivement, un service (ils font toutes les démarches pour toi, et à ta place, ce qui dans certaines circonstances et un gain de temps trés appréciable, et le paiement est alors justifié.) Non, je parle d'un moyen de "sauter la pile" en soudoyant ceux qui ont le pouvoir de t'octroyer le visa en 3 jours, plutot que d'attendre que le "systeme" t'accorde une date de RV dans 2 mois.
Ben non, je ne suis pas certain que dans les ambassades françaises, par exemple, toutes les demandes de visa de visiteurs étrangers soient traitées de la même maniere et selon le même processus. Enfin, ce serait interessant de se poser la question de pourquoi il y a eu de problemes (apparemment) pour faire renouveller son visa indien à Katmandou, et que c'est un cauchemar à Dhaka ? (et surtout encore plus intéressant d'obtenir les réponses).
En parlant d'Ambassades (ou plutôt consulats) françaises, il est intéressant d'aller faire un tour dans les files d'attente des visiteurs étrangers qui attendent un visa et d'entendre leurs commentaires...
Peut-être. Mais n'ayant pas eu moi-même cette expérience, je ne pourrais en parler.
Je suis venu exposer ici mon expérience de visa indien au Bangladesh. Pas autre chose.
Sauf que non, ce ne devrait pas être la même. De même que je ne crois pas que ce oit la même pour un indien ou un Bangladeshi, et un américain ou un australien qui demande un visa de touriste en France.
Il y a plein de raisons tout à fait justifiables pour lesquelles les demandes de visa des citoyens venant de pays "supposés pauvres" ou en voie de développement sont étudiées avec plus d'attention et de précautions que celles venant de citoyens venant de pays "supposés riches". Je sais assez que cela peut être problématique car les généralisations négatives font pas mal de victimes. J'ai moi-même dû écrire un jour à l'Ambassade française à Delhi pour protester contre le refus de visa pour un ami indien (ledit ami a finalement eu son visa quelques jours plus tard, comme quoi...)
C'est mon 4me visa de touriste en Inde, et oui, je pense, ne vous en déplaise, que le systeme devrait opérer une distinction entre les 50 000 millions de visas de travail/ business en Inde demandés par des citoyens bangladeshis et la petite vingtaine de demandes de renouvellement de visas de touristes non bangladeshis.
Mais bon, réjouissons-nous, l'Inde va proposer à partir de Septembre des visas "on arrival" à la grande majorité des citoyens du monde, ce que ni la France ni les autres pays européens ne sont près de faire (encore une fois, pour des raisons bien précises).
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