Maldives visa for Bangladeshi students: the IMUGA portal
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Maldives Immigration grants a tourist visa on arrival, with no pre-approval, but every foreigner must submit the Traveller Declaration on the IMUGA portal within 96 hours before arrival 1. The tourist page is dated 10/09/2026 and applies to all foreigners, with no rule specific to Bangladesh 1. Other visa types are applied for on the IMUGA portal 1.
The student visa
A Maldives Immigration news item dated 10 November 2020 says that from 15 November 2020 customers could apply for all visa types, including the Student Visa, through IMUGA 3. That item is old. It gives no student documents or fees, and the other pages read do not either 3. Email applications stopped being processed from 11 November 2020 3.
Tourist entry rules
If you travel as a tourist, Maldives Immigration asks for a passport with a machine-readable zone (MRZ) and at least one month of validity 1. It also asks for a full itinerary with confirmed return tickets, a prepaid confirmed booking at a registered facility and enough funds, or a sponsorship approved by Maldives Immigration 1. A yellow fever certificate is needed if you arrive from, or recently passed through, an affected country 1.
Checking status and contact
The IMUGA portal offers visa services, the Traveller Declaration with QR verification and queue token status 2. The official e-Visa check page asks for a passport number and a date of birth 4. The Maldives Immigration call centre is 1434, open 8:30am to 2:00pm, Sunday to Thursday 2.
Have your passport number and date of birth ready for the status check on this page.
Sources
Every numbered citation above links to one of these official pages.
