A traveller on his quest to visit all countries of the world, holding a Bangladeshi passport.

The story of Guy With The Green Passport began on 19 April 2018, when I decided to document my travel, something which I did not do before. I created a Facebook page with the same name as this site and started to share my experiences in Australia, as I was on a tour to Australia then.

Soon after that, I started receiving several questions, mostly about my Australian visa application. So I shared a detailed post on the same topic, which many found helpful. From the messages I received and the people I spoke to in the weeks after, I realised something: travellers from Bangladesh and other countries with weaker passports can find information about every aspect of travel from guides, blogs and vlogs created around the world — but guidelines for visa applications are what they cannot find easily.

Most established travel blogs, vlogs and even guidebooks are created by western travellers. They cover what to see, where to stay, where to eat and how to reach — but they forget one of the biggest barriers for travellers like us: the visa. And I don't blame them; I doubt they even realise a visa can be an issue at all.

So over the last several years I have been writing mostly about visa application guidelines as well as my own experiences, and the Guy With The Green Passport community has grown across Bangladesh and other countries facing the same problems.

I am not a full-time traveller, nor a digital nomad. I run a regular business in Bangladesh and, like most of you from this part of the world, I have to find time to travel. But I always try to make the most of the time I find.

I hope the information shared here will help and inspire people from countries like ours to travel and explore the world.

Cheers & happy travels!

Susmit Paul Aranya