Episode: KPN 10-01-2025 

Govt can’t scrap police verification for passports due to Rohingya – Home Advisor Jahangir

The government cannot scrap the police verification system required for issuing passports in Bangladesh due to difficulties connected to the displaced Rohingya, says Home Advisor Jahangir Alam Chowdhury.

“At one point, we thought about withdrawing the police verification process and issuing passports based on just NID cards,” he said.

“The police verification system sometimes causes difficulties for people as they get their passport late. We can’t scrap the verification system at this time due to the Rohingya people. But, this [harassment] has decreased and is not as bad as it was before,” the advisor told the media after visiting the Department of Immigration and Passports on Monday.

If it was possible to do it with only an NID, the government would like to end the police verification system, Jahangir said.

“The [National] ID cards also come to our ministry.”

The advisor said the government would take a different recommendation on the matter from the Police Reform Commission into consideration.

“There are foreign nationals residing in Bangladesh without a visa and working too. They must get visas by Jan 31,” the home advisor said.

If not, the foreigners would face legal consequences, he said. “If detained, we will send them back abroad [to their home countries].”

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