Malaysia's immigration authorities have arrested 52 immigrants, including 16 Bangladeshis, for not having valid documents.

Over 230 undocumented Bangladeshi migrant workers have been in the pipeline to return home from crisis-hit Lebanon, under a voluntary repatriation programme of the Bangladesh Embassy in Beirut.

About 16,000 Bangladeshi undocumented migrant workers have so far been regularised in the Maldives under a programme of the Maldivian economic development ministry, according to the Bangladesh High Commission in Malé.

Five Bangladeshi nationals were detained in northeastern Indian state Assam’s Dhubri by the Border Security Force along the border with Bangladesh on charges of entering the country without valid papers, a BSF official said today (August 29, 2022).

Some 37 Bangladeshis were reportedly nabbed by the Malaysia Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) as they tried to enter the country illegally by boat in waters off Kuala Sepang in Selangor.

Malaysian Immigration Police last night (May 27, 2022) detained 51 foreign nationals, including Bangladeshi migrant workers, for not possessing valid documents.

Four illegal immigrants from Bangladesh were arrested while trying to cross over to Nepal from the border state of India’s Uttar Pradesh, police said today.

The Tunisian navy said on Saturday (May 14, 2022) it rescued 81 migrants, including 32 Bangladeshis, who had set out for Europe from Libya on a barely seaworthy vessel, Arab News reports.

More than 500 Bangladeshis have been detained by Libyan police off the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

As many as 114 Bangladeshis returned home yesterday in a chartered flight from Libya.

As many as 114 Bangladeshi nationals returned home from Libya today, under the International Organization for Migration’s Voluntary Humanitarian Return Programme.

The body of one more Bangladeshi migrant, who was among the seven to have died from hypothermia while crossing the Mediterranean Sea to enter Italy illegally, arrived home today.

The body of a youth, one of the seven Bangladeshis who died from hypothermia on a boat carrying migrants while crossing the Mediterranean Sea to enter Europe illegally, arrived home today.

Seven Bangladeshi migrants, who died of hypothermia on a boat from Libya towards the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa on January 25, have been identified.

Seven Bangladeshi migrants who were on a boat from Libya heading for the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa have died of hypothermia, Agrigento Prosecutor Luigi Patronaggio said in a statement on Tuesday.

The Recalibration Programme for Repatriation of Undocumented Immigrants has been extended until June 30, says Immigration director-general Datuk Seri Khairul Dzaimee Daud.

Bangladesh is deepening its ties with the Maldives, a small South Asian island nation, as part of its greater objective of regional integration in South Asia in the areas of trade, connectivity, migration and tourism.

A Bangladeshi immigrant has been found dead in the Dragonja Valle area near the Slovenia-Croatia border.

At least nine Bangladeshi nationals including the kingpin of a human trafficking gang have been arrested from India’s Uttar Pradesh.

Twenty Bangladeshi nationals were apprehended today from the Anandapur locality of Kolkata for allegedly staying in India without legal documents, an Indian police official said.