All visas must be applied online through the Immigration ETA portal. Before you apply for your visa, you need to have a confirmed hotel booking, pre-purchased PCR tests and a mandatory COVID-19 Insurance Cover paid for through your ‘Safe and Secure Level 1’ hotel when making your booking.

• The hotel will issue a reference number which you need to include in your visa form under the section ‘Contact Details’.
• There you will be asked for ‘Address in Sri Lanka’, under which you need to indicate your hotel name, address and the reference number issued.

• Yes, you will need to pay USD 12 for a 1 month’s cover of USD 50,000 offered by People's Insurance PLC. This is a mandatory requirement when applying for your visa. Each guest, including children, should purchase the insurance, including children.
• Pay your COVID-19 insurance premium of A USD 12 to your 'Certified Safe and Secure Level 1 hotel' when you are making your hotel booking. They will issue you a reference number (once paid for both Insurance and PCR tests), which you will need to process your visa.

Any vaccination accepted by the country of origin is acceptable under the vaccinated route.

Children below 12 years are permitted to accompany their parents/ guardians who are fully vaccinated.

• Children 2 years and above are required to do one PCR test on arrival
• Children below 2 years are exempted from PCR tests. However, if the parents/ guardians develop symptoms or result in positive PCR test reports, the children will undergo PCR tests as well.

At the airport, on arrival - please produce the following:

• Negative COVID-19 PCR report (in the English language) taken within 72 hours before flight
• Original copy of the vaccination certificate (In the English language)
• Completed Health Declaration Form

Once at the certified, Safe & Secure Level-1 hotel, an on-arrival PCR test is performed (for 24-48 hours). Guests are permitted to use all the facilities of the Certified Safe & Secure Level-1 hotels once PCR test results are negative.

On receipt of a negative PCR test report, guests are permitted to leave the bio-bubble.

The respective Level-1 hotel doctor will issue a discharge document upon verifying the status of vaccination and PCR test results.