Amid growing queries on visa status of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and others, the United States (US) has said the visa records are confidential under US law.
“Visa records are confidential under US law; therefore, we do not discuss the details of individual visa cases,” a spokesperson at the US Embassy in Dhaka told reporters on Tuesday following multiple queries, UNB reports.
Many journalists reached out to the US officials reportedly to confirm the United States has revoked Sheikh Hasina’s, her sister’s, the former government’s ministers, advisors and officials’ US visas.
On 5 August, demonstrators converged in Dhaka defying the curfew and forcing Hasina to step down and leave the country. She is currently in India.
“Our understanding is that after a meeting with leaders of the security establishment, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina apparently made the decision to resign. At very short notice, she requested approval to come for the moment to India. We simultaneously received a request for flight clearance from Bangladesh authorities. She arrived yesterday evening in Delhi,” said Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in “Suo moto statement” in Rajyasabha on the situation in Bangladesh on Tuesday.
British immigration rules do not allow individuals to travel to that country to seek asylum or temporary refuge, the UK Home Office told NDTV Tuesday morning, amid persistent speculation that Sheikh Hasina, now in Delhi, will fly to London to claim sanctuary.
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