For student visa, applications should be submitted at the UK Visa Application Centers (VAC) in Dhaka, Sylhet, and Chittagong run by VFS Bangladesh Pvt. Ltd.

Address of VAC:

VAC Dhaka Office
Saimon Centre, 1st floor
Gulshan Commercial Area
Road # 22, House # 4A
Dhaka 1212

Office timing
Sunday-Wednesday: 08:00-13:00, 14:00-16:00
Thursday: 08:00-14:30
With the exception of public holidays
Telephone: 8851988, 8851987-9
Fax: 8851989
E-mail: info.ukbd@vfshelpline.com

VAC Sylhet Office
Garden Towers, 1st Floor
Shahjalal Bridgelink Road
Sylhet 3100

Office timings
Sunday-Thursday: 08:00-13:00 (Submission)
14:00-16:00 (Passport Collection)
With the exception of public holidays
Telephone: 0821-810117 ( 08:00-13:00)
Fax : 0821-810118
E-mail: info.ukbd@vfshelpline.com

VAC Chittagong Office
Chamber House, 4th Floor
38 Agrabad C/A, Chittagong.

Office timing
Sunday-Thursday: 08:00-14:30
With the exception of public holidays
Telephone: 031-2511210
E-mail: info.ukbd@vfshelpline.com

1. For student visa you have to pay BDT 15225, in favour of \"British High Commission\".
2. All visa fees will need to be paid at designated branches of BRAC Bank Ltd.
3. Alternatively, an applicant has the option to turn in with a pay order demand draft of the exact visa application fee amount in favor of the \"British High Commission\" but bank drafts only from Standard Chartered, HSBC, Sonali Bank, South East Bank or BRAC Bank are acceptable. The applicants also have the option to purchase a Banker\'s Draft at the UK Visa Application Centre. There is a Bank processing fee of BDT 150 when paying the visa application fees in cash at the Bank Counter inside the Visa Application Centre. 4. Applicants will be given a receipt (which will be valid for 30 days from the next working day).
5. The receipt should then be submitted with an application form to one of the Visa Application Center (VAC) or the British High Commission\'s commercial partner VFS Center

All persons applying for UK visas, irrespective of nationality, will have to apply in person to one of the VACs to have their finger scans and digital photograph taken.

1. One recent, passport-sized (45mm x 35mm), colour photograph. The photograph should be:
a. Taken against a light coloured (white, off-white etc.) background
b. Clear and of good quality and not framed or backed
c. Printed on normal photographic paper
d. Full face without sunglasses, hat or other head covering unless for cultural or religious reasons