Foreign students' visa
Zoha, On e-mail
Nowadays lot of foreign students, especially students from Nepal are coming over to Bangladesh to pursue higher studies in different public and private universities as well as in the medical/dental colleges. They initially come on three months student visa and later on go to the passport office for extension of it. Unfortunately, our visa office people instead of helping them to get extension as stipulated in the Ministry of Home Affairs letter no. sha:ma:/bahi-2/1a-1/90/662,dated 10-6-2001 allegedly make the best use of their unscrupulous tricks to earn some quick bucks. By doing that these people not only spoil the image of the country but also discourage the prospective students to come over to Bangladesh. When these students are supposed to get visa for the duration of their study period on production of required certificate from the educational institutes and subject to clearance by the SB, they are unnecessarily made to wait for the whole day till they get fed up and please the right persons. I suggest that the government investigate the matter and a separate enclosure may be set up only for the extension of visa to the foreign students. We have already stooped too low as a nation in the eyes of the world community, being champion in corruption repeatedly and also in brutality by killing political opponents in broad daylight. I feel this is high time that someone from somewhere started a campaign for change. The sane elements in passport office can also show us the light. May God bless our beloved country and the majority of its innocent people.
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