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Sri Lanka: country policy and information notes

Guidance used by UK Visas and Immigration to make decisions in asylum and human rights applications.

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Country policy and information note: minority religious groups, Sri Lanka, August 2021

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Country policy and information note: sexual orientation and gender identity, Sri Lanka, November 2021

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Country policy and information note: Sri Lanka medical treatment and healthcare, July 2020

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Report of a Home Office fact-finding mission to Sri Lanka, January 2020

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Report of a Home Office fact finding mission: treatment of Tamils and people who have a real or perceived association with the former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), July 2016

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Country policy and information notes (previously known as country information and guidance reports) are used by UK Visas and Immigration officials to make decisions in asylum and human rights applications.

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Published 9 December 2016
Last updated 14 April 2023 + show all updates
  1. Information on Tamil separatism updated. The guidance has been updated in section 5.4 to reflect the fact that there is no longer a requirement for decisions to be reviewed by a second pair of eyes.

  2. Updated the country policy and information note on Tamil separatism.

  3. Add updated country policy and information note on 'Sexual orientation and gender identity, Sri Lanka, November 2021' and an accessible HTML version.

  4. Updated country policy and information note: minority religious groups.

  5. Added updated country policy and information note on Tamil separatism.

  6. Removed 'Country policy and information note: Tamil separatism, Sri Lanka, May 2020' as it is out of date.

  7. Added updated country, policy and information note (sexual orientation and gender identity)

  8. Country policy and information note: Sri Lanka medical treatment and healthcare, July 2020 added.

  9. Updated country policy and information note: Tamil separatism, Sri Lanka, May 2020.

  10. Report of a Home Office fact-finding mission to Sri Lanka added.

  11. Guidance on journalists, media professionals and human rights activists removed as out-of-date.

  12. Replaced 'Sri Lanka- Sexual Orientation and gender identity and expression' with revised version.

  13. Information on religious minority groups published.

  14. Added new country policy on sexual orientation and gender identity.

  15. Added new country policy on media professionals.

  16. Updated guidance on 'Tamil separatism'.

  17. Updated guidance on 'Tamil separatism' and new guidance added on 'Report of a Home Office Fact finding mission, July 2016'.

  18. First published.