Migrants sent home $2.18 billion in the first month of 2025

Behind this staggering number lies a grim reality: young lives extinguished far too soon, leaving behind grieving families and communities

The number is a record high, reveals statistics from Wage Earners’ Welfare Board

The Kuala Lumpur Immigration Department arrested 176 illegal immigrants, including 71 Bangladeshi nationals, during a raid in the Jalan Alor area of Bukit Bintang on Wednesday night, reports Malaysia’s national news agency Bernama.

Frustration is mounting among the over 18,000 Bangladeshis who missed a deadline to fly to Malaysia for work around eight months ago.

The Bangladesh High Commission in Malaysia has announced an extension of the Migrant Repatriation Programme for undocumented Bangladeshi nationals, allowing them to return home under revised provisions set by the Malaysian government

Canada's Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has announced that it will no longer accept new applications under this scheme from 2025 onwards, leaving many Bangladeshi families in uncertainty

The decline in the number of Bangladeshi migrant workers is a wake-up call for the country's policymakers and stakeholders

A total of 1,011,856 people went abroad, a decrease of 293,597 compared to 1,305,856 people in 2023, according to BMET.

Remittance inflow also broke single-month record in December

Written complaints accusing diplomatic staff of misbehaving with expatriates will be investigated by the foreign ministry, and guilty officials will face dismissal and legal action, said Prof Asif Nazrul yesterday.

They said it will be the largest organisation of expatriates, with the aim of establishing the dignity and fair rights of expatriates

he syndicate was reportedly led by three Bangladeshi men.

However, November’s inflow of $2.2 billion was 8.16% lower than the previous month

Only 26,834 female workers went to Saudi Arabia between January and September 2024, down from 41,327 workers during the same period last year

Migrant Bangladeshis sent home $2.39 billion in October

The first batch of 54 Bangladeshi expatriates were repatriated today from Lebanon amid an ongoing conflict in the Middle Eastern country

Bangladesh embassy in Lebanon started collecting information on the migrants in the Middle Eastern country as Dhaka has decided to evacuate those who want to return home amid Israel's attacks on Lebanon

Repayments will be made from the remittances sent home

At least 45 people have died after two migrant boats sank off the coast of Djibouti, the UN's migration agency said Tuesday