Travel Desk: Passport is required for travel from one country to another country or for any other urgent work. It is not possible to travel to other countries without a passport. Therefore, according to the calculations of the Directorate of Immigration and Passports of Bangladesh, about two and a half million people have passports till April 2019. A full-fledged Directorate of Immigration and Passports was established in 1973 after independence. Since then, Bangladesh has basically had a tri-color passport, which has been used as a symbol indicating three different types and uses.

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Mohammad Abu Saeed, a director of the Bangladesh Immigration and Passport Directorate, said that in the beginning there were three types of passports, ordinary or general passport, special or special passport and diplomatic or diplomatic passport. The special passport was also known as the Indian passport as it was issued only for travel to India. Until 2010, Bangladeshi ordinary passports were green, and diplomatic passports were red. Besides, the color of the Indian passport was also red, but it was a slightly different color than the diplomatic passport.

Until 2010, all passports of Bangladesh were handwritten. In 2010, according to the instructions of the International Civil Aviation Organization ICAO, Machine Readable Passport or MRP was introduced, and special passports or passports only for going to India were abolished. The color of passports of different countries of the world is different. However, whatever color the passport is issued by the country, it must take the passport color and design clearance from the International Civil Aviation Organization ICAO. But in general there are different shades of these four colors red, blue, green and black in the world.

While green color passports are in general for all in Bangladesh, there are two more colors i.e. blue and red passports in the country. Now let's find out which color passport for whom - Green passport: Director of Immigration and Passport Directorate Saeed said, green passport is called ordinary passport. This passport is for all common citizens and government employees of Bangladesh. In this case, this green passport is for all citizens of Bangladesh both by birth and marriage. A green passport requires a visa from the respective country to travel abroad.

Blue passport: Blue colored passport is called official passport. This official passport is used when an official or employee travels outside the country for government work. This passport requires approval or Government Order (GO) from the concerned government office. Holders of this blue passport can travel to at least 27 countries without a visa.

Saeed said, before 2010, there was no blue passport, until that year government approval was given by hand writing inside the green passport. However, if the government employees want to travel abroad without government work, then they cannot use the blue passport. Red passport: Red passport It is called diplomatic or diplomatic passport.

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The Head of State, Prime Minister, Members of the Cabinet, Members of Parliament and their spouses will receive this passport. In addition, judges of higher courts, vice-chancellors of public universities, heads of public service commissions, secretaries of ministries and officials of Bangladeshi missions abroad get red passports. Those who have red passports do not need any visa to travel abroad. They get an on-arrival visa after landing in the respective country. Diplomatic passports are red in color in all countries.