Citing the results of a survey, a column in Bangladesh-based The Financial Express reported that as many as 500,000 Indians were staying illegally in Bangladesh in 2009.
[4] The Bangladesh-based The Financial Express article claims that the illegal Indian immigrants in Bangladesh were found working in different establishments such as NGOs, garments, textile, and IT, and sent money back home through hundi transfer systems.
In contrast, the unofficial figure is estimated to be significantly more[9] and the article claims that most of them came on tourist visas and tended to stay back.
In the first 10 months of fiscal year 2023-24 total outward remittances stood at $130.6 million as per the finance minister of Bangladesh.
[10] In July 2016, four thousand Indians took refuge in Lalmonirhat, Bangladesh after floods in West Bengal, India.