Sri Lankan passport

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The front cover of a non-biometric Sri Lankan passport.
Issued by	Sri Lanka
Type of document	Passport
Purpose	Identification
Eligibility requirements	Sri Lankan citizenship
Expiration	10 years for adults and 3 years for minors (below 16 years of age).

Sri Lankan passports are issued to citizens of Sri Lanka for the purpose of international travel. The Department of Immigration and Emigration is responsible for issuing Sri Lankan passports.

Immigration and Emigration Department has began to issue biometric passports according to international standards with effect from 10 August 2015^[1]

Types

Diplomatic Passport (Light Red ) - Issued to Sri Lankan diplomats, top ranking government officials and diplomatic couriers.
Official Passport (Red ) - Issued to individuals representing the Sri Lankan government on official/state business
Ordinary Passport (Maroon ) - Issued for ordinary travel, such as vacations and business trips
- Valid for all countries
- Valid for specified countries
Emergency Certificate (Silver )
- Valid for India and Nepal (for Pilgrimage and medical treatment)
Non Machine Readable Passports (Brown ) - Issued by Sri Lanka Missions under special circumstances

All newly issued passports for adults will have a maximum validity of ten years from the date of issue under the Immigrants and Emigrants Act, regardless of when the previous passport (if any) was issued.

Cost and Validity

Type		Valid countries	Fee		Validity
Type		Valid countries	Normal Basis (10 working days)	Urgent Basis (same day)	Validity
Ordinary Passport	For adults	All countries	රු.3,000	රු.10000	10 years
	For adults	Specified countries*	රු.1000	රු.2500	10 years
	For Minors (below 16 years of age)	All countries	රු.2000	රු.5000	3 years
	For Minors (below 16 years of age)	Specified countries*	රු.1000	රු.1500	3 years
Official Passport		All countries	රු.3000	රු.10000	10 years
Diplomatic Passport		All countries	රු.3000	රු.10000	10 years
Emmergency Certificate		India & Nepal	රු.500	N/A	2 years (can be extended for further two years)
Non Machine Readable Passport & Temporary Travel Document		N/A	N/A	රු.2500	valid only for one way travel to Sri Lanka

Specified countries* = Bahrain, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, India, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Maldives, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

In case of a lost passport, a fine of රු.10,000 charge in addition to the passport fee.

Identity information page

The Sri Lankan passport includes the following data:

Photograph of the holder (digital image printed on page)
Type ('PA' or 'PB' for Ordinary Passport, 'PC' for Official Passport and 'PD' for Diplomatic Passport)
Country code ('LKA' for Sri Lanka)
Passport No. (Starting with 'M' or 'N' for Ordinary Passport, 'OL' for Official Passport and 'D' for Diplomatic Passport)
Surname
Other Names
National Status ('SRI LANKAN')
Date of Birth (DD/MM/YYYY)
Sex 'M' for Male and 'F' for Female
Place of Birth (only the city or town is listed)
Date of Issue (DD/MM/YYYY)
Date of Expiry (DD/MM/YYYY)
Profession
ID No. (National Identity Card Number)
Holder's Sign (digital image printed on page)
Authority Colombo (digital image printed on page)

The information page ends with the Machine Readable Zone.

Biometric Passport

From the 10 August 2015, all newly issued passports are to be enabled with Biometric interfaces to allow holders to be applicable for 'Visa Waiver Programmes' (VWP) available in certain countries. The passport is valid like the Machine Readable PP for 10 yrs. from issuance.

Citizens interested to receive this or renew their existing passport are to be photographed by authorized photo studios around the island and be present for "fingerprint scanning' at the office in Colombo and other major cities. A list of authorized studios are available here.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: (as at 10/08/2015)

All passport applicants irrespective of age should use passport Application Form K 35A
All passport applicants including children should provide digital photograph through Authorized photo studio
Fingerprints will be collected from all applicants above 16 years at the head office and three regional offices in Sri Lanka
Applicants submitting passport applications through Sri Lanka Diplomatic Missions overseas could do so without providing fingerprints and digital photograph. Holders of such passports could provide fingerprints on their first arrival in Sri Lanka at the head office or any of the regional offices of the Department.
Inclusion of children in parents passport will NO longer be allowed and children will be issued separate passports
Children below 16 years of age whose passports are issued after 10 August 2015 are required to provide fingerprints to the Department upon reaching the age of 16 years. Holders of such passports living abroad should do so upon first arrival in Sri Lanka.
No Emergency Certificate (EC) shall be issued for applicants below 60 years

Sri Lankan Passport for a Dual Citizen

Sri Lanka allows dual citizenship. However, under the 19th amendment of that country's constitution. An individual who holds citizenship in both Sri Lanka and another country can obtain a Sri Lankan passport.

An individual who holds citizenship in both Sri Lanka and another country can obtain a Sri Lankan passport by submitting the following documents.

(Download printable versions of the Application Forms here)

Completed Application Form
Photo studio acknowledgement
Dual Citizenship Certificate with a photocopy. (A copy of payment receipt for citizenship Registration may be accepted)
Foreign passport with any Sri Lankan passport if there is (with photocopy of Bio data pages)
National Identity Card with a photocopy.
Birth Certificate with a photocopy.

For further information: click here to be redirected to the department's website

Note of passport

The passport contains the following note :

Sinhalese:

“

මෙය දරන්නාට අවහිර බාධාවලින් තොරව නිදහසේ ගමන් කිරීමට සහ අවශ්‍යවන ආධාර ද ආරක්ෂාව ද සලස්වා දෙන ලෙසත් අදාල වගකීම් දරන සියලු දෙනාගෙන්ම ශ්‍රී ලංකා ප්‍රජාතාන්ත්‍රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජයේ ජනාධිපති ඉල්ලුම්කර ද අපේක්ෂාකර ද සිටී.

”

Tamil:

“

இதனை வைத்திருப்பவர் தங்குதடையின்றி இலகுவாகப் பிரயாணஞ் செய்ய அனுமதிக்குமாறும் வேண்டிய உதவியையும், பாதுகாப்பையும் அளிக்குமாறும் இது தொடர்புடைய சகலரையும் இலங்கைச் ஜனநாயக சோசலிசக் குடியரசின் ஜனாதிபதி அவர்கள் வேண்டிக் கொள்கிறார்கள்.

”

English:

“

The President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka requests and requires all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance and to afford the bearer such assistance and protection as may be necessary.

”

Visa requirements

Main article: Visa requirements for Sri Lankan citizens

Countries and territories with visa-free entries or visas on arrival for holders of regular Sri Lankan passports

In 2016, Sri Lankan citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 40 countries and territories, ranking the Sri Lankan passport 96th in the world according to the Visa Restrictions Index.

References

↑ "Sri Lankan Govt. begins to issue biometric passports". 10 August 2015.

External links

Department of Immigration and Emigration - Sri Lanka

Passports

Africa

Central

CEMAC	Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Congo, Republic of the Equatorial Guinea Gabon

Angola Congo, Democratic Republic of the São Tomé and Príncipe

Eastern

Northern

Southern

Western

Mauritania Saint Helena¹

ECOWAS	Benin Burkina Faso Cape Verde Côte d'Ivoire Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Niger Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone Togo

Americas

Caribbean

Anguilla¹ British Virgin Islands¹ Cayman Islands¹ Cuba Dominican Republic Montserrat¹ Turks and Caicos Islands¹

CARICOM	Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Dominica Grenada Haiti Jamaica Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago

Central

Costa Rica Panama

CARICOM	Belize

Central America-4	El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua

North

South

Chile

Andean	Bolivia Colombia Ecuador Peru

CARICOM	Guyana Suriname

Mercosur	Argentina Brazil Paraguay Uruguay Venezuela

Asia

Central & North	Afghanistan Kazakhstan⁶ Kyrgyzstan Russia³ Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan

East	People's Republic of China Hong Kong¹¹ Macao¹¹ Japan Korea, North Korea, South Mongolia Republic of China (Taiwan)⁹

South	Bangladesh Bhutan India Maldives Nepal Pakistan Sri Lanka

Southeast	Brunei Burma Cambodia East Timor Indonesia Laos Malaysia Philippines Singapore Thailand Vietnam

West	Abkhazia⁵ ⁹ Armenia⁷ Azerbaijan⁵ Bahrain Cyprus⁷ Egypt⁸ Georgia⁵ Iran Iraq Israel Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Nagorno-Karabakh⁷ ⁹ Northern Cyprus⁷ ⁹ Oman Palestinian Authority Qatar Saudi Arabia South Ossetia⁵ ⁹ Syria Turkey⁴ United Arab Emirates Yemen

Europe

Other Europe

European Union

Oceania

Australia Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Micronesia, Federated States of Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Pitcairn Islands¹ Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu

International organizations
Defunct passports
Passport types

International organizations	European Union laissez-passer International Committee of the Red Cross Interpol United Nations laissez-passer

Defunct	British Indian Empire¹ Czechoslovakia East Germany Korean Empire League of Nations refugee (Nansen) Mandatory Palestine Rhodesia Soviet Union¹² UNMIK Travel Document Yugoslavia

Types	Biometric Camouflage Diplomatic Fake Hajj Horse Internal International Machine-readable Pet Travel document alien refugee stateless person World

¹ A) Includes Crown Dependencies, British Overseas Territories, and former British plantations, crown colonies, colonies, protectorates, protected states, mandates, trust territories and other British possessions.
B) The Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey are not part of the European Union, but Manxmen and Channel Islanders are citizens of the European Union; the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey, and Manxmen and Channel Islanders themselves (unless they qualify and apply for recognition of a change in status), are however excluded from the benefits of the Four Freedoms of the European Union.
C) The Government of the United Kingdom also issue passports to British nationals who are not British citizens with the right of abode in the United Kingdom and who are also not otherwise citizens of the European Union.

² Open border with Schengen Area.

³ Russia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. The vast majority of its population (80%) lives in European Russia, therefore Russia as a whole is included as a European country here.

⁴ Turkey is a transcontinental country in the Middle East and Southeast Europe. Turkey has a small part of its territory (3%) in Southeast Europe called Turkish Thrace.

⁵ Azerbaijan and Georgia (Abkhazia; South Ossetia) are transcontinental countries. Both have a small part of their territories in the European part of the Caucasus.

⁶ Kazakhstan is a transcontinental country. Kazakhstan has a small part of its territories located west of the Urals in Eastern Europe.

⁷ Armenia (Nagorno-Karabakh) and Cyprus (Northern Cyprus) are entirely in Southwest Asia but having socio-political connections with Europe.

⁸ Egypt is a transcontinental country in North Africa and Western Asia. Egypt has a small part of its territory in Western Asia called Sinai peninsula.

⁹ Partially recognized.

¹⁰ Not recognized by any other state.

¹¹ Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China

¹² The Soviet Union was a transcontinental country located in Eurasia

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