Entry Requirements

Country information

You would like to know, if a visa is required, certain vaccinations are recommended or other entry requirements apply? Then please enter the destination country.

Entry Requirements

Country information for Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka Arrival Card

Presenting the Sri Lanka Arrival Card is one of the basic requirements for entry into Sri Lanka. All travelers, regardless of nationality and purpose of travel, are strongly recommended to register for entry online, otherwise the entry process will be unnecessarily delayed. Registration is possible a maximum of 7 days before departure via the website of the Department of Immigration and Emigration. Please note that the Arrival Card is not a visa!

Exceptions:

  • Persons travelling through Sri Lanka in transit without leaving the transit area.
  • Sri Lanka citizens travelling through the land checkpoints.

Business Visum will gladly take care of the registration for you. 

Your advantage: Eliminate any deadline pressure and instruct us directly as soon as your journey is finalised. We will reliably keep an eye on the above-mentioned registration deadline for you!

You can book our Service as usual via the Easy Access booking portal.

Entry into Sri Lanka requires a visa. BUSINESS VISUM can apply for an electronic visa for business* as well as tourist travel purposes.

Relevant benefits to the embassy visa:

  •  no original documents are required for e-visa applications
  •  the processing time of the authorities is only approx. 2 working days

The printed E-visa confirmation must be carried along upon entry and presented to the immigration officer together with the passport used for the application.

The e-visa is valid from the date of issue for 3 months. The allowed period of stay is generally 30 days with multiple entries.

*Participation in meetings and negotiations, workshops and seminars, training, participation in art-, music- and dance events, participation in a symposium.

Please read more details about this and other services in the overview below.

Choose from our services for Sri Lanka

E-Visa

E-Visa

Have you decided to apply for an e-visa? 

The procedure is as follows:

  1. Enter an order via our EASY ACCESS portal under this link and upload the following documents:
     
    • Passport (data page)
       
  2. Your documents will be checked immediately. In case of discrepancies or missing information you will receive feedback from our eService Team.
     
  3. As soon as the e-visa is available, you will receive it as a PDF file by e-mail or as download.

Important to know:

You can adjust our processing time according to your individual needs! Simply make your selection: Relax (6 working days or more), Express (2 to 5 working days) or Today (within 24 hours (only on working days)). 

Plus the processing times of the authorities of currently 2 working days.

Tariff information:

Servicenet Price excl. VATFinal price incl. 19% VAT                
Relax service59.90 €71.28 €*
Express service89.90 €106.98 €*
Today service124.90 €148.63 €*


*the price is per visa plus credit card fee 9.88 € incl. VAT (net = 8.30 €). In addition there are the consular fees of currently 40 USD (business) or 35 USD (tourist) (different fees apply for some nationalities).

Photo Service

Photo Service

You want to ensure that your photo meets the requirements of the embassy and that your visa is approved without delay due to different quality or format requirements?

Then use the BUSINESS VISUM photo service!

We ask you to consider:  The photo must meet the official biometric requirements for the purpose of applying for a visa.

You can recognize a biometric photo by the following criteria:

  • The background is monochrome (white/light grey) and shows no objects or patterns.
  • The head position is aligned to the camera (automated biometric identification of the face and iris of the eye would be possible).
  • The facial expression of the person portrayed is neutral to serious (if you smile, your mouth must be closed!).
  • The view is directed directly forward into the camera (neither to the side nor up or down!).

Simply send us the photo digitally. We process photo sizes, duplicate and print your passport photos in the required number and quality.

An excerpt from our price list:

  1. duplicate photo = 21.90 € incl. VAT (net = 18.40 €)
  2. edit photo = ab 37.49 € incl. VAT (net = 31.50 €)
  3. print photo = 21.90 € incl. VAT (net = 18.40 €)
     
Translations

Translations

In cooperation with consulates and embassies, documents may have to be submitted to the national representations in the respective official language of the target country. These can be documents in connection with the application for a special visa (certified invitations, marriage certificates, extracts from the commercial register, etc.) or documents submitted for legalisation (powers of attorney, certificates of origin, commercial invoices, etc.).

Not everyone has a translator at hand right away. Depending on the document and the specifications of the target country, the latter must be approved as a sworn translator. Particularly in the area of documents to be certified, professional work is essential, since inaccuracies are not recognised by the authorities.

BUSINESS VISUM supports you with certified and sworn translators in all areas, regardless of the source and target language. Very uncomplicated and very fast.  If the documents have to be submitted directly to a consulate, you have the advantage of short distances and services from a single source.

Insurance

Insurance

Travel health insurance of Hanse Merkur

The Embassy of the Russian Federation and some other Eastern European countries, and in exceptional cases China, require proof of travel health insurance when applying for a visa.

You can take out such insurance through our partner CARE CONCEPT AG.

Care Concept AG specializes in insuring people abroad. Germans and Austrians can be insured worldwide as well as foreigners in Europe. The insurance products include health, accident and liability insurance cover as well as assistance services such as the organization of medically necessary repatriation from abroad to the home country.

We recommend our clients, who will be in Russia for as many stays per year of up to 56 days each, to take out an international health insurance with the "Care Holiday" tariff. This rate costs only 10.90 € per year for travellers up to the age of 64 years.

But other rates such as "Care Travel" or "Care Expatriate" (for employee assignments up to 5 years) could also be interesting for you. With all tariffs, our partner takes care to offer you a very good price-performance ratio.

In any case, it is important for you: The application form can be completed quickly and easily in just a few steps. The insurance confirmation is sent directly to BUSINESS VISUM, so that we can immediately start or continue with the visa application without any loss of time.

Visit the website of our partner CARE CONCEPT for more information.

There you can immediately start filling out the insurance application.

Have you decided to apply for an e-visa? 

The procedure is as follows:

  1. Enter an order via our EASY ACCESS portal under this link and upload the following documents:
     
    • Passport (data page)
       
  2. Your documents will be checked immediately. In case of discrepancies or missing information you will receive feedback from our eService Team.
     
  3. As soon as the e-visa is available, you will receive it as a PDF file by e-mail or as download.

Important to know:

You can adjust our processing time according to your individual needs! Simply make your selection: Relax (6 working days or more), Express (2 to 5 working days) or Today (within 24 hours (only on working days)). 

Plus the processing times of the authorities of currently 2 working days.

Tariff information:

Servicenet Price excl. VATFinal price incl. 19% VAT                
Relax service59.90 €71.28 €*
Express service89.90 €106.98 €*
Today service124.90 €148.63 €*


*the price is per visa plus credit card fee 9.88 € incl. VAT (net = 8.30 €). In addition there are the consular fees of currently 40 USD (business) or 35 USD (tourist) (different fees apply for some nationalities).

You want to ensure that your photo meets the requirements of the embassy and that your visa is approved without delay due to different quality or format requirements?

Then use the BUSINESS VISUM photo service!

We ask you to consider:  The photo must meet the official biometric requirements for the purpose of applying for a visa.

You can recognize a biometric photo by the following criteria:

  • The background is monochrome (white/light grey) and shows no objects or patterns.
  • The head position is aligned to the camera (automated biometric identification of the face and iris of the eye would be possible).
  • The facial expression of the person portrayed is neutral to serious (if you smile, your mouth must be closed!).
  • The view is directed directly forward into the camera (neither to the side nor up or down!).

Simply send us the photo digitally. We process photo sizes, duplicate and print your passport photos in the required number and quality.

An excerpt from our price list:

  1. duplicate photo = 21.90 € incl. VAT (net = 18.40 €)
  2. edit photo = ab 37.49 € incl. VAT (net = 31.50 €)
  3. print photo = 21.90 € incl. VAT (net = 18.40 €)
     

In cooperation with consulates and embassies, documents may have to be submitted to the national representations in the respective official language of the target country. These can be documents in connection with the application for a special visa (certified invitations, marriage certificates, extracts from the commercial register, etc.) or documents submitted for legalisation (powers of attorney, certificates of origin, commercial invoices, etc.).

Not everyone has a translator at hand right away. Depending on the document and the specifications of the target country, the latter must be approved as a sworn translator. Particularly in the area of documents to be certified, professional work is essential, since inaccuracies are not recognised by the authorities.

BUSINESS VISUM supports you with certified and sworn translators in all areas, regardless of the source and target language. Very uncomplicated and very fast.  If the documents have to be submitted directly to a consulate, you have the advantage of short distances and services from a single source.

Travel health insurance of Hanse Merkur

The Embassy of the Russian Federation and some other Eastern European countries, and in exceptional cases China, require proof of travel health insurance when applying for a visa.

You can take out such insurance through our partner CARE CONCEPT AG.

Care Concept AG specializes in insuring people abroad. Germans and Austrians can be insured worldwide as well as foreigners in Europe. The insurance products include health, accident and liability insurance cover as well as assistance services such as the organization of medically necessary repatriation from abroad to the home country.

We recommend our clients, who will be in Russia for as many stays per year of up to 56 days each, to take out an international health insurance with the "Care Holiday" tariff. This rate costs only 10.90 € per year for travellers up to the age of 64 years.

But other rates such as "Care Travel" or "Care Expatriate" (for employee assignments up to 5 years) could also be interesting for you. With all tariffs, our partner takes care to offer you a very good price-performance ratio.

In any case, it is important for you: The application form can be completed quickly and easily in just a few steps. The insurance confirmation is sent directly to BUSINESS VISUM, so that we can immediately start or continue with the visa application without any loss of time.

Visit the website of our partner CARE CONCEPT for more information.

There you can immediately start filling out the insurance application.