Consulate General of Bangladesh

This review is for the LA Consulate. These guys are worse than the government workers in Bangladesh! Their website provides incorrect information, and outdated forms that cannot legally be filed, nobody ever picks up the phone, and THEY LOST MY PASSPORT when I sent it in to be renewed. Reading the other reviews, they only seem to treat you well if you’re a foreigner… There was only one person who spoke to me nicely, answered all my questions, and was doing his job. I called the Washington, DC Consulate for help in utter desperation when I found I couldn’t reach anyone at the LA office — amazing. Professional, accurate, and efficient. Even the NYC office (although many years ago) was not great, but not like this.

Those lousy workers are even lazy enough to pick up the phone. I asked & they said they have a different phone number than the one posted on their own website!
I wanted to renew my passport validation. A young guy with beard gave me a form. After filling up the whole damn thing, someone else from the counter told me that it’s a form to get Visa. So I had to fill out another form. No apology or any regret from that dumb@#$!
They don’t take cash, only money order (which is ⁴⁄₅ blocks away from them). And since they don’t have any parking (I guess you’ll have to park the car almost 2 blocks away from the office), you have to walk to the nearest 7Eleven to do the money order. And this location doesn’t give cash back, have to use their ATM which will charge you (and your bank as well). And You’ll need to put some money for the money order as well!
All together it’s hassle. And No one cares, cause it’s Bangladeshi office. They’ll run how they wanna run this. Why? Cuz it’s Bangladeshi office! It’ll never be fixed, even after they bring whole new team. Why? You know why!

Awful! Awful! Awful! Not sure if it even matters to these jokers if they receive bad reviews. To begin with, the place literally stinks of urine. I’m appalled at the fact that the phone system has no answering service or even a voice mail at a country’s government office. I called about 20 times in 3-​day period to get information but no answer — the phone kept ringing and ringing. When I got my visa a couple of months back, they handed me the visa in 10 minutes after turning in the application. This time my son’s visa had to wait until next day because the receptionist said they went by rules. I guess the rule was broken during my 1^st visit when I took a friend along who knew the consul general (or someone). Needless to say, this is a true reflection of how the country Bangladesh is governed by these idiots and crooks. It starts from top (consul general) and goes down the chain here. These employees are priviledged to serve in this country for a while but forget or lack proper training how to serve people. These 8 or 10 morons at the desk and inside office seemed totally lost and disorganized, and one of them wanted me to complain for hypocrisy. So here we go…

The service I received here was amazing, upon arriving a gentleman named Ashik assisted me, he was very polite and made clear to me what I needed in order to obtain a visa. This was my first time going to the Bangladesh consulate and upon reading the reviews I wasn’t sure what to expect, but ism glad I went and I will recommend this place to whoever needs a Bangladesh visa. i also liked how promptly I received my visa and the office called me to notify me that it has arrived, they even offered to have it mailed to my home, but since I didn’t live far I went to pick it up.

Awesome Service !!! Very different than Washington DC. and New York. Every time I have called or gone to this consulate I have gotten ROYAL treatment. Everybody is very knowledgeable and extremely polite. Always a «very helping» attitude. In one occasion, I messed up with some paperwork (totally my fault). They called me personally and worked with me over an hour to resolve my issue. I can’t ask for anything more. My cousin flew out here from St. Louis, Missouri to get his MRP done after he got runaround from Washington DC. and New York. He was very happy he did that. Now, I do like to see some improvement for the office itself (decorations, reading materials etc.) in the lobby area to reflect more about Bangladeshi culture.

I received stellar service at the Consulate of Bangladesh.
I don’t know if being a cute girl had anything to do with it… sorry to the 1 star reviews below me!
I made sure to be informed before going, talked to someone personally and asked them nicely if it was true I could get the visa the same day (tourist visa), they assured me that as long as I dropped it off early, I could pick it up later the same day.
I went in with all the documents ready and organized, asked to speak to the person I spoke to on the phone, i handed over the documents, including the money order.
I came back at 4 and picked up the Visa.
Perfect.
Great service, and very helpful and attentive staff!

Such horrible service. You can stand at a window staring at the guy behind the counter and he will not give you the time of day until you flash some cash.
I once went to pick up my sister’s passport, which sat on the counter behind the glass partition, just beyond my reach. The employee (once he decided to look up at me) refused to hand it to me, claiming that «sar ekhono ashen nai» («the sir/​boss isn’t in yet») and he didn’t have the authority to hand me the passport. I knew he was bsing, and if it weren’t for the glass partition, I would’ve just grabbed the passport and run. Frustrated, I called my dad (who grew up in Bangladesh) for advice, and he asked if I brought $ 20 with me. Confused, I displayed the bill and without hesitation, «sar ei matro dhuksen» («the sir/​boss just came in»), so the passport was handed over to me.
It’s incredible that the widespread corruption endemic to Bangladesh would be transplanted to their LA consulate along with their photos of Dhaka skyscrapers and Royal Bengal tigers. I am really disappointed in the government of my family’s homeland.

My mother needed to contact the Consulate General of Bangladesh to find out specifics for selling land in Bangladesh. The Embassy has 2 locations in the US: NYC and LA. Being the loving & dutiful daughter, my mom asked me to call the Embassy and I obliged. I explained to her that on a previous occasion, I tried to call the Embassy and spoke to someone who understood zero English.
We did a three way call or total phone for old school peeps. I started talking in English and brohan couldn’t understand a word I was saying. I spoke very slowly and enunciated. Frustration for a good 5 minutes. My Bengali is alright (kind of lame actually), so finally my mom started speaking in Bengali. Brohan could only communicate in Bengali and sounded relieved. My mother (who’s English skillz are not so hot) speaks better English than the dude that works for the Embassy in Los Angeles.
Consulate General of Bangladesh — you bring me shame. Great, now Los Angelinos will think my people are uncouth.
FYI: You need a visa to travel to Bangladesh.