Home Minister: Issue of reintroducing MRPs in USA to be reviewed

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said the government will review the issue of reintroducing machine readable passports (MRPs) in the USA in the greater interest of Bangladeshi citizens for a certain period of time alongside continuing the existing e-passports.

The Home Minister was speaking at an interactive session with officers of Bangladesh Embassy in Washington DC on Friday afternoon, said a press release on Saturday, reports BSS.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman is now leading a Bangladesh delegation to the United States to join the third United Nations Chief of Police Summit (UNCOPS) and other programs.

He also said the e-visa will be introduced soon. We are going to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) very soon and we are hopeful that we would be able to start issuing e-visa within six months of the inking of the MoU, he added.

Asaduzzaman Khan said the distribution of National Identity (NID) cards has been handed over to the Home Ministry at the directives of the Honourable Prime Minister so that all the citizens of the country get its facilities.

The ministry will start work in full swing on the project and will also undertake a plan so that the expatriates get the NID cards from Bangladesh missions abroad, he mentioned.