A woman waits to apply for a passport at the Sri Lanka's Immigration and Emigration ... the authorisation of most applications. The online application system is backlogged for months and many ...

While an international body is overseeing this process, Sri Lanka will start using e-passports from November on wards, according to Ilukpitiya. The existing passport had been designed in 2002.

COLOMBO, June 16 (Reuters) - R.M.R Lenora stood in a snaking queue outside Sri Lanka's Immigration and Emigration Department headquarters for two days last week, hoping to get a passport and ...