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Applications for British passports to be received in Sylhet

Staff Correspondent, Sylhet
A pilot project for receiving applications for British passports in Sylhet was launched yesterday.
Addressing a press conference at a city hotel in connection with the launching of the project, British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Stephen Evans said the project would run for six months on experimental basis.
Replying to a question he said the people concerned will be supplied with new British passports as well as the
renewal of expired ones will also be done here within 10 days.
He sought media cooperation for making the pilot project a success.
Evans said Bangladeshi origin community has been playing a laudable role in the developmentof British society forlong.
“We are proud of their contribution in the field of British economy, industry and other sectors, he said, adding these people are also contributing enormously to make Bangladesh a prosperous country too.
The high commissioner said the existing close relation between the peoples of Bangladesh and the UK was established by those who had their journey from this region in the early 18th century.
By now. the Bangladeshi origin community has been integrated into the British society in a big way, he added.
He said of the half a million British-Bangladeshis, about 70,000 to 80,000 people do stay in Sylhet at any time of a year.
“We have things to do for their betterment," he added.
Services at the regional
office of the British High Commission in Sylhet has been improved to a great extent, he said, adding, "We will make further improvement."
The envoy said Sylhet is important to the UK as more than 90 percent of Bangladeshi origin people are from this region.
“I am also proud of this community for their massive contribution In the local bodies of the UK, he added.
About the forced marriages among the UK immigrant families and others, he said these are declining now.