Date of publication:

07/02/2025

Bangladesh

Do domestic laws and policies require the State to provide administrative assistance in the context of family reunification when assistance by the authorities of the country of origin is not possible?

ANALYSIS

Assessment by population

Assessment by population
Refugees
Asylum-seekers
Analysis

Domestic laws or policies of Bangladesh do not address the states’ responsibility to provide administrative assistant in the context of family reunification. The laws or policies in Bangladesh do not address the family reunification of the refugees or asylum seekers at all. Even if assistance by the authorities of the country of origin is not possible, the domestic laws or policies do not provide any administrative mechanism for family reunification. However, under its mandate UNHCR has been providing support in some cases of family reunification in Bangladesh. Usually, in the context of Bangladesh UNHCR provides the verification and documentation support to the sponsoring agencies to ensure whether the person of concern is registered within the UNHCR system and sometimes providing an attestation certificate. In terms of administrative assistance in the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char, UNHCR advocates with the Camp-in-Charge (CiC) to manage the exit pass from the camps so that the person of concern faces less difficulty in the administrative procedures. UNHCR also advocates to the concerned ministries for managing the other required documents for ensuring proper travel and exit of the PoC from the territory of Bangladesh.