Sri Lanka Police Clearance Certificate (PCC) Fee Calculator

A Sri Lanka PCC bound for foreign use is a small assembly line. Each step is run by a different authority and has its own gazetted fee. The calculator above totals seven line items, each of which maps one-to-one onto a published rupee figure. Nothing is invented; if a number on the receipt doesn't match a number on a government site, the calculator is wrong and the "Source verified" badge flips to "Recompute mismatch".

1. Sri Lanka Police administrative fee. Sri Lanka Police charges Rs 1,000per certified copy at Police HQ, Mt Lavinia. Paid via a People's Bank deposit slip or cash at the counter. Up to five copies in a single application — order extra copies up front rather than queuing twice.
2. MFA Apostille or consular legalisation.Since Sri Lanka's accession to the 1961 Hague Apostille Convention took effect on 31 January 2025, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Consular Affairs Division issues an Apostille for documents bound for any Hague Contracting Party — the destination country is then legally required to accept it without further attestation. The fee is Rs 600 per document. For non-Hague destinations (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran and a handful of others), the MFA instead issues a consular legalisation at the same Rs 600 tariff, and you take the PCC onward to the destination country's embassy in Colombo for a further (separately priced) attestation. The country picker auto-snaps the path so you don't pay for the wrong step.
3. Certified translation. When the receiving authority wants the certificate in a different language, the Department of Cultural Affairs maintains a panel of sworn translators. English (Sinhala or Tamil → English) is roughly Rs 750 per page; foreign languages (Arabic, Korean, Japanese, etc.) sit around Rs 2,500 per page on average. PCC is a single page, so per-page and per-copy are the same figure here.
4. SLBFE registration (migrant-worker route). Foreign-employment departures bundled through the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment add a registration line at roughly Rs 17,000 for a first contract. SLBFE actually publishes a tiered schedule — domestic workers, skilled workers and re-registrations pay different rates — so verify your tier at the counter.
5. Express and courier surcharges. Police HQ runs a same-day track for walk-in applicants who arrive before 10 a.m. with all supporting documents; the surcharge is Rs 1,500. Sri Lanka Post Speed Post within-island delivery adds a flat courier line. Neither applies to embassy-routed applications, and the calculator zeros the lines automatically when they can't apply.
6. Mission consular bundle (abroad route). If you apply through a Sri Lankan diplomatic mission, the mission cashier collects a bundled fee covering the Police PCC retrieval from Colombo plus the attached MFA Apostille. Each mission gazettes its own fee in the host-country currency; the LKR-equivalent shown on this page (roughly Rs 25,000 per copy) is an indicative-rate average across the highest-volume missions (London, Sydney, Dubai, Riyadh, Tokyo) and should be treated as a planning figure rather than the exact cashier total.
7. Cross-check.A second, closed-form formula recomputes the grand total without walking the line items. If the two numbers disagree by even a rupee, the "Source verified" badge flips. That guards against silent breakage when a fee is revised — the page either matches the published schedule or tells you it doesn't.

• Sri Lanka Police — Police Clearance Certificate service page
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs — Consular Services (Apostille + legalisation)
• HCCH — Apostille Convention status table (Hague membership roster)
• Department of Cultural Affairs — Sworn-translator fee schedule
• Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment — Registration schedule
• Sri Lanka Post — Speed Post within-island tariff
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs — Sri Lankan diplomatic missions (per-mission fee pages)

Sri Lanka acceded to the 1961 Hague Apostille Convention with effect from 31 January 2025. The country lookup table on this page mirrors the HCCH status roster on 2026-05-16. Fees are gazetted under the Police Ordinance, the Foreign Employment Act No. 21 of 1985, and successive MFA service circulars. This page is reviewed on every gazette revision and at minimum once per quarter.