Bangladesh does not have any domestic laws and policies that provides refugee status to the asylum seekers. So, the question of derivative refugee status for accompanying family members of recognized refugees is irrelevant to the context of Bangladesh. The country deals with the asylum seekers or refugees under ad hoc framework which is usually framed with consultation and support from international organizations like UNHCR. During the later mass influx of 2017, to manage the Rohingya refugees the Government of Bangladesh signed a MoU with UNHCR under which the Rohingya refugees were termed as ‘Forcefully Displaced Myanmar Nationals’ by the Government of Bangladesh and UNHCR recognized them as refugees on a prima facie basis. In contrast Rohingya refugees who arrived in the 1990s and members of their families are the only profile the Government of Bangladesh considers as “refugees” following joint registration by the Government of Bangladesh and UNHCR, and an RSD-like process conducted in 1998/99 known as the Individual Family Questionnaire (IFQ). Except for these refugees, the domestic legal framework does not provide refugee status to any asylum seekers or refugees let alone the accompanying family members of recognized refugees. UNHCR as the UN agency dealing with the refugees in Bangladesh can conduct RSD under its mandate based on different SOPs framed for a different profile of urban refugees. The SOP states that once the authenticity of their family ties is confirmed in protection interviews and approved by the protection officer, all family members will be granted derivative status and recognized as refugees. So, though the domestic legal framework is silent, the recognition of refugee status by UNHCR under its mandate, will result accompanying family members receiving derivative refugee status although this is not recognized in national law and policy.