Research Subject: This study provided a brief discusion on the international labor migration, remitances and their contribution to migrant sending households in rural Bangladesh. Aproach: Remitances sent by migrants have become a major source of income for many households in Bangladesh. Remitances enable the migrant households to improve their living standard, invest on education, health care and other family welfare activites. Purpose: This study atempted to examine the development impacts of labor migration and remitances on migrant sending familes in the context of Bangladesh. Central Questions: The research questions dealt with the drivers of migration; general paterns of spending and investing remitances within households; efect in incomes of the returne migrants’ households; and impact of remitances on the socio-economic wel being of the migrant households. Methodology: The methodology used in this study was qualitative in nature, using in-depth interviews with the migrants and their household members. Results: The study found that migration and remitances could have mixed impacts on migrant sending households. It helped the households to sustain their livelihod and improve their living conditons. However, the study did not find any convincing prof regarding the impact of remitances on sustainable livelihod solution for migrant sending households.