All applicants holding ordinary passports will be requested to have their fingerprints collected.

The following applicants can be exempted from fingerprints collection:

(1)  Applicants under the age of 14 or over 70; 

(2)  Diplomatic passport holders, or applicants eligible for diplomatic, official and courtesy visas;

(3)  Applicants who already had their fingerprints collected within the past five years at the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Bangladesh with the same passport;

(4)  Applicants who suffer from 10 fingers mutilation or whose fingerprints cannot be collected;

(5) Applicants who apply for single and double entry business (M), tourism (L), family visit (Q2), transit (G), and crew (C) visas from August 9 to December 31, 2023.