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FCDO travel advice for Sri Lanka. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.

• Updated: 14 October 2025

• Warnings and insurance

  Before you travel No travel can be guaranteed safe. Read all the advice in…

• Entry requirements

  This information is for people travelling on a full ‘British citizen’…

• Safety and security

  This guide also has safety advice for regions of Sri Lanka. Terrorism…

• Regional risks

  Northern Sri Lanka There is a visible military presence across the north.…

• Health

  Before you travel check that: your destination can provide the healthcare…

• Getting help

  The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) cannot provide…

Information for British citizens moving to or living in Sri Lanka, including guidance on residency, healthcare and passports.

• Updated: 27 January 2022

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

• Updated: 2 September 2025

Updates, news and events from the UK government in Sri Lanka

• Updated: 15 August 2017

Advice and guidance on the health needs of migrant patients from Sri Lanka for healthcare practitioners.

• Updated: 18 April 2016

• Updated: 2 September 2025

• Updated: 19 June 2023

Information on security and political risks which UK businesses may face when operating in Sri Lanka.

• Updated: 19 June 2023

Core Group Statement for the Interactive Dialogue on the Report of OHCHR on the Human Rights Situation in Sri Lanka. Delivered by the UK's Permanent Representative to the WTO and UN, Kumar Iyer.

• Updated: 8 September 2025

UK Statement for the Interactive Dialogue on the Report of OHCHR on the Human Rights Situation in Sri Lanka. Delivered by the UK's Human Rights Ambassador, Eleanor Sanders.

• Updated: 8 September 2025