Online Sri Lankan visas soon

• Sri Lanka will shift its visa issuance operations to the internet in the new year "as early as possible." This means that the visa-on-arrival facility will not be available from the time that the online visa process begins
• It was on August 27 that Sri Lanka first announced suspension of visa-on-arrival facility extended to citizens of 79 countries, including India. The announcement was to take effect from September 30. The reasoning was to extend the visa-on-arrival facility only to those countries that reciprocate this facility. Travellers from Singapore and Maldives were exempt from this since both these countries reciprocate. Citizens of these countries are exempt from the new online process too.