diff --git a/app/jobs/data_import_job.rb b/app/jobs/data_import_job.rb
index d8bbeb992..4149ee16f 100644
--- a/app/jobs/data_import_job.rb
+++ b/app/jobs/data_import_job.rb
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ class DataImportJob < ApplicationJob
     raw_data = file.read
     utf8_data = raw_data.force_encoding('UTF-8')
     clean_data = utf8_data.valid_encoding? ? utf8_data : utf8_data.encode('UTF-16le', invalid: :replace, replace: '').encode('UTF-8')
+    clean_data = clean_data.delete_prefix("\xEF\xBB\xBF")
 
     CSV.new(StringIO.new(clean_data), headers: true)
   end
diff --git a/spec/fixtures/data_import/with_bom.csv b/spec/fixtures/data_import/with_bom.csv
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8b1850620
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/fixtures/data_import/with_bom.csv
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+name,email,phone_number
+Ahmed,ahmed@example.com,+971501234567
diff --git a/spec/jobs/data_import_job_spec.rb b/spec/jobs/data_import_job_spec.rb
index 19178b177..88b268ef6 100644
--- a/spec/jobs/data_import_job_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/jobs/data_import_job_spec.rb
@@ -91,6 +91,20 @@ RSpec.describe DataImportJob do
         expect(invalid_data_import.account.contacts.first.name).to eq(csv_data[0]['name'].encode('UTF-8', 'binary', invalid: :replace,
                                                                                                                     undef: :replace, replace: ''))
       end
+
+      it 'will strip UTF-8 BOM and import contacts correctly' do
+        bom_data_import = create(:data_import,
+                                 import_file: Rack::Test::UploadedFile.new(Rails.root.join('spec/fixtures/data_import/with_bom.csv'),
+                                                                           'text/csv'))
+
+        described_class.perform_now(bom_data_import)
+        expect(bom_data_import.account.contacts.count).to eq(1)
+
+        contact = bom_data_import.account.contacts.first
+        expect(contact.name).to eq('Ahmed')
+        expect(contact.email).to eq('ahmed@example.com')
+        expect(contact.phone_number).to eq('+971501234567')
+      end
     end
 
     context 'when the data contains existing records' do