Notification

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs would like to refer to the Ministry’s notification of 3 January 2023 that all applicants for a passport are to apply online through the G2C services system available at https://www.citizenservices.gov.bt/. The Ministry stopped the in-person passport applications with effect from 5th January 2023.  Applicants are ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade hereby informs the general public that the collection time of the Passports from the Passport Office on a working day will be as follows:   1) 09:00 am to 1:00 pm and 2) 02:00 pm to 05:00 pm   The additional time ...

NOTIFICATION The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade hereby notifies the general public that it will  facilitate the replacement of the Travel Document issued in lieu of Ordinary Passports from 01st December 2022, as notified earlier (Ref: MFA/DoP/PD-03/2022/337 dated 2nd November 2022).  The replacement will be facilitated without the ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is pleased to notify the general public that the Ministry will resume the issuance of  Ordinary Passport from 03 November 2022. In view of the sheer volume of Passport applications received so far (backlog since 20th August 2022) and the need for the backlog to ...

As part of the Civil Service Reform undertaken by the Royal Civil Service Commission, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is being restructured to make it fit for purpose and responsive to contemporary national needs. The following changes will take effect on 2nd October 2022: A new Department of Economic and ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs hereby notifies the general public that Bhutanese intending to travel to Nepal on a recently issued Travel Document in lieu of Ordinary Passport, should process for prior visa to enter Nepal from the Nepalese Embassy in New Delhi. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will assist ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs hereby notifies the general public that the Department of Protocol has started issuing a Travel Document in lieu of an Ordinary Passport as an interim arrangement from the 20th of August 2022. This measure has been taken due to the sudden increase in the application ...

The Ministry would like to inform the general public that Bhutanese travellers, both by air and road, to Bangladesh will require to process prior visa from the Embassy of Bangladesh in Thimphu. Visa on-arrival, which remains suspended, is available only to the following categories:  Foreign nationals of Bangladesh-descendants and their ...