Sri Lanka Visa Fee Calculator (ETA — Tourist, Business, Transit)

A Sri Lanka pre-arrival visa is called an Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA). It is issued by the Department of Immigration and Emigration under the Immigrants and Emigrants Act, No. 20 of 1948 (as amended), and the Minister gazettes the fee schedule by order. Three components make up the cost on your card statement; this tool splits them out so you can verify any quoted figure.

1. Government visa fee. Looked up in a typed table keyed by (visa type, duration, entries, nationality band). For a 30-day single-entry tourist visa: USD 50 for non-SAARC, USD 20 for SAARC. Business visas are higher. Transit and the visa-exempt short-stay schemes are zero-rated. The full table lives inlib/data/sri-lanka-eta-visa-fee-calculator.tswith the portal URL and verification date in the file header.
2. Payment-gateway service fee. A flat USD 0.50per applicant on the portal's payment step. This is a card-acquirer charge, not a tax — it goes to the payment processor, not the Treasury. The on-arrival counter does not charge this fee because the counter takes cash or a direct card payment.
3. On-arrival surcharge.A flat USD value gazetted by Treasury order — currently USD 25 for tourist categories and USD 50 for business — applied only when you choose “apply at counter”. The surcharge is a price signal pushing travellers to apply online ahead of time.
4. Aggregate across the party. Per-applicant total (government fee + service fee + surcharge), multiplied by the number of applicants on the booking, gives the USD total.
5. Convert to LKR.Multiply the USD total by your chosen USD-to-LKR rate. Card-issuing banks use the rate on the day the payment posts, which is usually within 1% of the Central Bank's indicative middle rate.

The calculator runs two independent computations — a per-line aggregation and a direct portal-formula applicants × (gov + service + surcharge) × FX — and flags any mismatch. SAARC concessionary rates are sourced from the SAARC Visa Exemption Scheme arrangements maintained by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Visa-exempt status for Maldivian and Singaporean short stays follows the live exemption list published on the ETA portal; if a nationality is not on that list, the calculator falls back to the standard band lookup.

• Department of Immigration & Emigration — official ETA portal (apply here)
• Department of Immigration & Emigration — visa fees & categories
• Immigrants and Emigrants Act, No. 20 of 1948 (as amended) — Parliament of Sri Lanka
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs — SAARC Visa Exemption Scheme
• Central Bank of Sri Lanka — Daily Indicative Exchange Rates

The fee schedule on this page was last cross-checked against the official portal and the Department of Immigration on 2026-05-16. Fees can change without notice when the Minister of Public Security gazettes a new order under the Act — the portal is the legal source of truth.