Sri Lanka will soon be offering the ‘free visa on arrival’ facility to foreigners, beginning with nationals from EU countries and USA and UK.
The facility was earlier planned to be offered to EU, UK, USA, SAARC countries and a few other selected countries from May 1 but was put on hold due to the Easter Sunday blasts.
Sri Lanka currently offers ‘on arrival visa’ only to citizens of Singapore, Nepal and the Maldives. Earlier, the island provided on arrival visa to many other countries, similar to the policy introduced by Singapore. However, that decision was halted eight years ago.
In the aftermath of Easter Sunday blasts, the Foreign Ministry is working on completely getting travel advisories removed.