Plain answers to what applicants ask most while making their visa sketch map. Facts about the embassy's rules come from the embassy's own website, with links.
For a family reunion (spouse) visa, the German Embassy Dhaka asks for an individual sketch map of four addresses: your present address, your permanent address, your spouse's address in Bangladesh, and the Kazi Office where the marriage is registered. On top of each page write which address it is (e.g. ‘Present Address of applicant’), then the complete address, a description of how to reach the home from Dhaka (in Bangla or English), and a road map with the means of transport (e.g. bus, car, CNG).
Write the way in four parts: 1) from the German Embassy (Baridhara) by CNG or Uber to a Dhaka bus stand, railway station or launch terminal; 2) from there by bus, train or launch to your district or upazila; 3) from there by auto-rickshaw, rickshaw or easy-bike to a named crossing or bazar; 4) how to recognise the house (gate colour, the mosque or shop next to it). Use short sentences, so that a stranger can follow them.
You can make a sketch map even when the village has no road, house or ward numbers. Write the house name or whose house it is (care of), the village or para, union, thana or upazila, post office and post code, and district. If you do not know the ward number, leave it empty. To show the house, name a nearby crossing, bazar, school or mosque, and drop a pin exactly on the house. The pin adds a QR code to the PDF that opens the house in Google Maps.
In the Google Maps app, press and hold on your house until a red pin drops. Two numbers such as ‘23.79762, 90.42226’ (the coordinates) appear in the search box or the card at the bottom. Copy them and paste them into the ‘Paste a Google Maps link’ field of Sketch Map Maker. The short maps.app.goo.gl link from ‘Share’ cannot be read: open it in a browser and copy the full link from the address bar, or set the pin on the map yourself.
A sketch map is a page that shows the way from the embassy to your home, clear enough for a stranger to find the house. Put on it the full address, phone numbers, step-by-step directions (by CNG, bus, train or rickshaw), a map with the route, a Google Maps link and QR code, and a few photos of landmarks. Make one page per address. You can make it free on this site: enter the address and drop a pin, pick the route, add photos if you like, then download the A4 PDF and print it.
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