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Check your Sri Lanka ETA route, passport validity, permitted stay and visa cost, then build the document checklist for your trip.
This checklist works out which Sri Lanka entry route applies to you, tests your passport against the six-month validity rule counted from the date of arrival, compares your planned stay with the 30-day tourist admission, and totals the ETA fee for your party. Sri Lanka issues an Electronic Travel Authorisation before travel that is converted into a visa at the airport, so the passport, onward ticket and funds checks still happen at the counter after approval. Use it to build the folder before you book, not after.
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Counts six months from your arrival date and names the exact day your passport must reach.
Shows that the fee-waiver scheme removes the payment, not the ETA application itself.
Adds child, business, currency-declaration and yellow-fever items only when they apply to you.
Yes. The fee-waiver scheme Sri Lanka has run since October 2024 removes the payment for around forty nationalities, but an approved Electronic Travel Authorisation is still required before you board. Airlines check the approval at the gate, and the waiver list is revised by cabinet decision, so confirm it on the official immigration portal.
A tourist ETA admits you for 30 days from the date of arrival with double entry. Longer stays are handled by extending inside the country at the Department of Immigration and Emigration in Colombo before the 30 days run out, on payment of the extension fee — not by asking for a longer ETA in advance.
At least six months from the date you arrive, and you should also have two blank pages for stamps. The six months are counted from arrival rather than departure, which catches people whose passport would still be valid on the day they land but expires part-way through the trip.
Both can be demanded, by the airline at check-in and by immigration on arrival. A confirmed onward or return booking is the item most often missing, and officers ask about funds when the stay is long or the ticket is one-way — a card with available balance or a recent statement covers it.