Sri Lanka has secured the position of having the third strongest passport in South Asia, according to the latest Henley Passport Index for 2025. Ranked 96th globally, the Sri Lankan passport now ...

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 ...

The Immigration and Emigration Department has announced that the 24-hour one-day passport issuing service for the public, ...

People in Sri Lanka have been scrambling to obtain passports in an attempt ... "I felt like I need to go abroad, with the situation here it is difficult to live," Madhishanita, a passport applicant, ...

Offering citizens visa-free access to 44 countries : Singapore ranks first in list: Sri Lanka has been ranked 95 offering its citizens visa-free access to 44 countries in the world by the latest ...

COLOMBO, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka's Department of Immigration and Emigration was setting up an online appointment system for passport applications, according to an announcement by the ...

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 ...