Last Change:
05/27/2024
The Registration of Foreigners Rules
Year: 1966
Type: Domestic law
Rights Category: Freedom of movement, Documentation
Description
The Registration of Foreigners Rules, 1966 provides the government with the authority to issue Rules requiring registration of foreigners entering, exiting, and/or residing in Bangladesh. The Rules define the procedures relevant to the registration of foreigners, pursuant to the aforementioned Act. This includes the requirement for any foreigner to report their presence to a prescribed authority, upon entry and following any transit, of any foreigner about to leave Bangladesh to report their date of intended departure, and to provide proof of identity.
Selected provisions
(1) Every foreigner entering Bangladesh shall, subject to sub-rule (2), present in person to the appropriate Registration Officer, prescribed by rule 7 a report in Form B (hereinafter referred to as a registration report) of his arrival in Bangladesh.
(2) Every registration report shall be made in writing, in the English language and in duplicate, shall contain a true statement of the foreigner's intended address in Bangladesh and of all the other particulars specified in Form 'B' and shall have affixed to it a photograph of the foreigner, which shall be overstamped with the stamp of the Registration Officer on both parts of the report:
Provided that a pardanashin woman who is accompanied by a male companion may present the registration report through her male companion and may not affix a photograph to the report:
Provided further that in the case of a foreigner whose occupation in such as to necessitate frequent travelling and who is not likely to return within a reasonable time to the district in which he is at any time living, the office of the Registration Officer of the district in which he first registers upon his arrival in Pakistan may be given as, and shall be deemed to be, his address in Bangladesh.
(3)Copies of Form B shall be supplied by the Bangladeshi visa issuing authority at the time of the grant of visa or by the Registration Officer in Bangladesh.