Another one from NZ

World_Refugee

Well travelled kiwi boy here. The next great journey I hope to be India and Bangladesh. Do we cover Bangladesh on here? Was introed to this site by a great mate. Hope to get to know you all. CHEERS!

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Jasmin

Hi 'World-refugee', you'll like this site, good to see you on here. It covers just about everything, I know because I've asked just about every kind of question at one time or another.

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Aishah

Welcome, World Refugee! And yes, I'm sure you'll find something on Bangladesh if you go to 'Crossing the Borders' Forum.

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World_Refugee

Great because I got some REALLY stupid questions to ask. Hey does this place cover Bangladesh too? (See theres 1 now) hehehehe

oh, thanks aishah. Ill go and look now...

zoltan

I'm happy to answer questions about b/desh if you have any to ask.

Love the place & intend going back later this year.

Cheers
Zoltan

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brownboy66

Kia Ora Refugee - and welcome to IM. Hope you enjoy the site.

happy travels.

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World_Refugee

zoltan, thanks. I would like to know about living there permentaly like what unskilled jobs a forginer can get thats not teaching english. also what long term visas are there etc? And what the cost of renting a place is and is it easy for a forginer? Thanks.

brownboy, cheers!

Swapnil

Welcome to IM World_Refugee ...hope you'll find all the information you needed regarding India & Bangladesh here ..!

World_Refugee

Thank you swapnil you guys are so friendly!

zoltan

OK... to answer as best I can:
- Permanent residence may be near impossible to obtain for a foreigner. If you were to have a job there, you may be able to get a long-term visa but that would be the extent of things.

- Employment for an unskilled person would again be near impossible. You have many people who live on less than US$1 per day in the outer regions of the country and, at the ship wrecking yards. Unemployment numbers are quite high and for you to get a job as a labourer, office worker, builder, etc. would again be near impossible.

You would need to have a job provided by a company before you went there to work. If you tried to obtain a job with a tourist visa, you'd be out of the country quickly.

- U.S. citizens excepted, the visas are generally very short. Ones for Aussies are only 30 days. I believe that trade agreements between the US & Bangladesh sweetened visas for people from the U.S. who can get much longer stays.

- Rentals would vary depending on where you want to live - if it's in Dhaka central, you could rent a hotel room (small but comfortable) for US$6 per night. Further out, the prices drop.

But at the end of the day, if you want to live there long term, are not a US citizen, have no job, I'd say that you're looking at only getting tourist visas for around 1 month and you'd have no chance of getting long term residency.

Cheers
Zoltan