In reply to a reporter’s query if the SOP will be used to facilitate bringing back BNP’s acting chairman Tarique Rahman, who is living in the UK, the home minister said, "We will try our best"

Oman has suspended the issuance of visas across all categories for Bangladeshis from Tuesday, the Royal Oman Police (ROP) has said

Brac helps man return to his family after being stranded in Pakistan

Hundreds of aspirant migrant workers had to wait for several hours yesterday in long queues to submit their biometric information at the Visa Service Centre for Saudi Arabia in the capital’s Jamuna Future Park, enduring various sufferings

Stakeholders in the labour migration sector should discuss the regularisation of sub-agents or middlemen under the newly enacted Overseas Employment and Migrants (Amendment) Act, 2023, said Anisul Islam Mahmud, chairperson of the parliamentary committee on expatriates' welfare ministry, today

Rescue ship Ocean Viking has saved 438 migrants in distress in the Mediterranean over the last two days, the organisation that runs it, SOS Mediterranee, said on Friday

From now on Bangladeshi citizens with transit visa will be able to stay four days in Saudi Arabia and perform umrah and migrants living there would be able to take their families to the kingdom for three months’ stay.

The body of one of the eight Bangladeshi migrants feared missing after a boat from Italy to Libya capsized in the Mediterranean has been found while two others are believed to be alive, their family members said.

The government does not want to accept the country's labour migration and remittance sector as a 'priority' sector, Barrister Shameem Haider Patwary, chairperson of Bangladesh Parliamentarians' Caucus on Migration and Development, said today

With numerous job opportunities and the scope to earn a decent living, Japan has emerged as a lucrative labour market for skilled Bangladeshi migrant workers.

Bangladesh for the first time has sent seasonal farm workers to the UK under its Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme

Speakers at a dissemination workshop today said the social cost borne by elderly parents of migrant workers is an under-addressed area in the country’s labour migration discourse, stressing adequate government measures to this end

Italy has agreed to take skilled workers from Bangladesh under a bilateral migration and mobility arrangement, particularly for Italian construction, shipbuilding and hospitality sectors.

Around 47 percent Bangladeshi migrant workers in the Maldives do not receive the wages promised to them, according to a recent study.

Only 53 percent of the Bangladeshi migrant workers in Maldives receive promised wage and their average monthly income is Tk 35,147..The information was revealed in a new study by the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU).

Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad yesterday held discussions with Malaysian officials for sending more migrant workers, stressing upon safe and orderly migration

The Malaysian human resources ministry transferred two of its top officials in connection with the recent recruitment of Bangladeshi and Nepalese workers

Stranded without work for months, hundreds of South Asian migrants in Malaysia say they are losing hope after failing to find jobs promised to them by recruitment agents in exchange for thousands of dollars in fees..At a students' dormitory about 40 km (25 miles) from the capital, Kuala Lu

Authorities in northwest Mexico rescued 113 kidnapped migrants of different nationalities, including Bangladeshis, from a building along the border with the United States, the state prosecutor's office said.

Coastguards have retrieved 41 bodies from Tunisian waters, a national guard official said yesterday, raising the number of victims of migrant shipwrecks off the country's coast to 210 in 10 days