Dhaka, Nov. 7 -- Syedur Rahman, a Bangladeshi who left the country nearly 20 years ago and acquired US citizenship, had surrendered his Bangladeshi passport. A few years ago, when he returned to Bangladesh intending to sell his ancestral property in Hemayetpur, Savar, he was unable to pay the required land revenue, as he had neither a Bangladeshi passport nor a National ID card.

Even during his time abroad, and later upon his return, he could not legally authorise anyone to manage his property. Therefore, he welcomed the recent amendments to the Power of Attorney regulations as "good news".

In February, the interim government revised the Power of Attorney rules, removing the mandatory requirement for a Bangladeshi passport to complete t...