MRP Pilferage 2 top passport men involved Finds probe; 11 MRP project staff still in hiding A probe pointed finger at 13 people, including two passport office high-ups, for the pilferage of machine readable passports (MRP) at Agargaon office. The names of Major Mohammad Shariful Islam, an assistant director of MRP project, and Mohammad Abdullah ... Read more
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70,000 cases pending with Special Branch
Police verification for passport 70,000 cases pending with Special Branch About 70,000 applications for fresh Machine Readable Passports have been awaiting police verification report for a long time. Of the pending passports, 899 applicants have been waiting for more than one year, 2,525 for six months, 5,582 for two months, 15,682 for more than 15 ... Read more
Govt to issue MRPs before getting police clearance
The government has asked the passport and immigration department to issue new Machine Readable Passports (MRPs) in 15 days for emergency and in 30 days for regular before getting police verification reports to contain sufferings of the passport seekers home and abroad. The decision came on Sunday at a meeting held at the Prime Minister’s ... Read more
Army given charge of passport printing
The Bangladesh Army-led ongoing machine readable passport project has been given the responsibility of passport printing, storing and quality control after over two thousand passport booklets went missing from Agargoan passport office recently, said sources in the Department of Immigration and Passports. ‘Under the office order, one army officer was entrusted with the whole procedure ... Read more
Row over decision to give manual passport
Undocumented Workers in KL Row over decision to give manual passport Experts and officials are surprised at the government decision to provide three lakh undocumented workers with manual passports, instead of machine-readable ones, to get them legalised in Malaysia. Expatriates’ welfare and overseas employment ministry made the decision despite insistence of high-ups and experts that ... Read more
Expats get MRP service
Introduced in 4 missions; 2 others in process Bangladesh has introduced machine-readable passport (MRP) service in Singapore, Malaysia, Abu Dhabi and Dubai missions as part of its effort to provide Bangladeshi expatriates with the service in its 65 missions worldwide. The service will be introduced in Jeddah and Riyadh missions next month, considering