Lucy receives Bangladeshi passport
Lucy Helen Frances Holt has received Bangladeshi Passport as a Bangladeshi national.
She received the Bangladeshi Passport BW0562236 issued at June 25, 2018 on Friday last.
Shafiq Zaman, joint Secretary , Ministry of Commerce delivered that passport to her at the residence of Oxford Mission area of the City. Dipali Bayen, Rahima Sultana Kajol and some of mission staffs were with her.
`I am very excited receiving my expected Bangladeshi passport as a Bangladeshi national', Lucy expressed her joy.
`I would like to die in this soil that I loved very much,' she added.
Lucy Helen Frances Holt is a British citizen who was living in Bangladesh for 57 years.
She was seeking Bangladeshi Citizenship since long.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina during her visit on February 10 at Barisal was handed over the British Passport of Lucy Holt with free-visa at the public meeting ground of Barisal Bangabondhu Udyan on February 8 afternoon.
But after a long process she at least received Bangladeshi citizenship.
Lucy Helen Francis Holt, born in St Helens, England on December 16, 1930, is one of the nuns at the Barisal Oxford Mission Church.
Even though she was supposed to return home two years later, the sister was mesmerized by Bangladesh’s natural beauty and its people.
Since then, she has worked around the country.
Living in Bangladesh for the past 57 years, Sister Holt had joined Oxford Mission Church of Barisal at the age of 30 and spent most of times here.
A silent witness of Bangladesh’s War of Independence in 1971, Lucy Holt writing to her relatives asked them to support the tortured people of the then East Pakistan in their liberation war against oppression of Pakistani occupants.
Sister Holt had treated wounded freedom fighters and people during that time serving at Fatema Hospital of Jessore and other places, according to church officials and locals.
Lucy Holt, thanking Prime Minister and Bangladesh government for giving her long term multiple entry free-visas, said she wants to take her last breath in Barisal and so selected place of her grave here.
