If an Indian citizen with a valid passport is willing to pay 1,800-2,000 rupees, he or she can get a Bangladeshi visa for a month sitting at home.

India announces that it would accept only valid Machine Readable Passports (MRP) for visa from September 1.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Malaysia are three of the largest destinations for Bangladeshi expatriate workers.

The parliamentary standing committee on home affairs asks the respective ministries to make sure that all the Bangladeshi expatriates are provided with machine readable passports within the November 24, 2015 deadline.

Malaysian IRIS Corporation Berhad must enroll 5,000 Bangladeshi expatriates in Saudi Arabia every day to give them Machine Readable Passport or face actions, expatriates' welfare and overseas employment minister says

THIS paper has highlighted the plight of our expatriate workers over the non-issuance of machine readable passports (MRPs) a number of times.