Bangladesh’s National Security Adviser (NSA) Khalilur Rahman used his residential address in Connecticut, United States, while applying for the diplomatic passport that was issued to him in December 2024 after he took up the job of High Representative to the Chief Adviser on Rohingya Issues the previous month.
For the diplomatic passport (No. DC80091**) issued to him on December 4, 2024, Khalilur Rahman used 1, Quaker Ln, Greenwich, CT 06831 as the permanent address. Khalilur Rahman used the name ‘Roger Rahman’ for his Facebook account.
Khalilur Rahman was born on April 1, 1954. His birth registration was done at Bangladesh’s consulate general in New York, on December 3, 2011. It was issued to him the same day. The birth certificate number issued to Khalilur Rahman was 19540008403000070.
Khalilur Rahman was born to Abdur Rahman and Walida Rahman in Dhaka. At that time, Khalilur Rahman lived at House 59, Road 4, Block C, Banani, Dhaka. Documents show that so far four passports have been issued in Khalilur Rahman’s name by Bangladeshi passport-issuing authorities.
While passports bearing the numbers AA55074** and BL02351** expired long ago, the most recent ordinary Bangladeshi passport that he held, while living in the United States, bears the number EJ01478**. For this ordinary passport, Khalilur Rahman had also used 1, Quaker Ln, Greenwich, CT 06831 as the permanent address.
The same address was used for the diplomatic passport application form which was submitted to the passport-issuing authorities on December 2, 2024, after he was appointed as High Representative to the Chief Adviser on Rohingya Issues. The diplomatic passport in his name is machine readable.
Khalilur Rahman, who landed in Dhaka from the US in November 2024 before assuming charge as High Representative to the Chief Adviser on Rohingya Issues, applied for leave to return to Connecticut. A document (of December 15, 2024) accessed by Northeast News shows that Khalilur Rahman went on “leave” from December 20 to 31 “for a period of 12 days”.
When Khalilur Rahman applied for the passport bearing the number AA55074*, he submitted his birth registration number 19540008403000070 and provided the Banani address. When this passport (presumably) expired, Khalilur Rahman applied for a fresh one in 2016. He used the same information in the application form while still living in the US. A passport bearing the number BL02351* was issued to him.
He then applied for a third passport in 2021 when, barring the new residential address (1, Quaker Ln, Greenwich, CT 06831), the rest of the information provided in the application form remained the same. The mobile phone numbers (for himself as well as his spouse Nurun Nahar Rahman) were provided in the application form.
While Khalilur Rahman claimed recently that he does not possess a US passport, he has never possessed a Bangladesh National ID (NID) card, which appears to have come in the way of opting for E-passports for which NID is a required document.
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Non-possession of a Bangladeshi NID card makes Khalilur Rahman ineligible to vote in elections in Bangladesh. On her part, Khalilur Rahman’s spouse, Nurun Nahar Rahman, is a registered voter in Connecticut, which makes her a US citizen who is eligible to vote in American elections.
