Upgrade SL Passport, enable people to travel to 190 countries without VISA

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Ratata Hetak CSR programme today requested the speaker to take action to uplift the grade of the Sri Lanka Passport while enabling people to travel to at least 190 countries without a VISA.

The organiser of the Ratata Hetak programme, Sarath Kalugamage, said a letter in this regard was sent to the speaker.

"According to the International Ratings on Passports, Sri Lanka's passport stands at the lowest position. "As an Asian country, Japanese can travel to 190 countries without a visa, but, can we do so without a visa," the letter said.

Kalugamage mentioned that he strongly emphasizes that the political authorities of this country are fully responsible for this. No government that has come to power since independence has paid attention to this. The reason for this is that they have the power. They use their diplomatic passports to fulfill their travel needs.

"In such a backdrop, it has become inevitable that Sri Lankans with a lot of skills are utterly disappointed. They cannot stay or leave the country. The Speaker, can play a key role in this matter than the Foreign Minister," he said.

In general, almost every country pays due attention to the request of a speaker, as Kalugamage mentioned in his letter.

The Speaker has the courtesy to invite all ambassadors to Parliament for a meeting and to make an open request, both verbally and in writing, to all Sri Lankans to have the opportunity to travel and work without a visa, he said.

Therefore, as a civil activist, I kindly request that you focus your attention on doing that for the people of the country, Kalugamage said. (Chaturanga Samarawickrama)

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Comments - 8

Ram Thursday, 09 June 2022 05:16 AM

This is a fat hope for all of us Sri Lankans. We will never ever get the right to travel on a SL PP to more than 50% of the countries without visa

Yahapala Thursday, 09 June 2022 05:47 AM

This could be only a Daval heenayak. Never ever to be happening in our life time..

Mohamed Thursday, 09 June 2022 06:49 AM

Good move, please consider and act immediately

Chaminda Thursday, 09 June 2022 07:39 AM

Very good suggestion. Also the exam title GCE (O/L) and GCE (A/L) should be changed to worldwide accepted title. General Diploma (O/L) High School Diploma (O/L) and General Diploma (O/L) High School Diploma ( A/L)

Gehan Thursday, 09 June 2022 09:04 AM

No chance.....we're known throughout the world as a nation of kleptos. They're making it difficult for Lankans to enter to preserve their way of life!

Ron Thursday, 09 June 2022 09:17 AM

Its not the quality of passport; its about the country.

Gee Thursday, 09 June 2022 11:26 AM

Japan and Singapore are the only passports that give visa free travel to 190 countries. Even EU countries, USA, UK, NZ, AUS etc still only give about 185. You really think the government can make the Lankan passport the best in the world? No chance. Currently Lankan passport gives 41 and will continue to get worse

Adwani Thursday, 09 June 2022 11:29 AM

"As an Asian country, Japanese can travel to 190 countries without a visa, but, can we do so without a visa," The great question is: Are we Japanese??? Our government rejected Japan when Japan advised SL to stop all corrupt practices, SL refused conditions imposed by Japan on Loans to be utilized without corrupt deals. Now the new PM is struggling to repair relationship with Japan.

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