Sri Lanka Visa Overstay Penalty Calculator

Sri Lanka charges overstay penalties under the Immigrants and Emigrants Act No. 20 of 1948, with the current amounts set by Gazette Extraordinary No. 2337/10 (21 June 2023)and published on the Department of Immigration & Emigration (DIE) Visa Fees page. The penalty depends only on how many whole days you exceeded your visa or ETA validity, in three flat bands:

1. Count the overstay days. Subtract your visa/ETA expiry date from your departure date to get whole calendar days. Leaving on or before the expiry date is not an overstay. If your ETA is valid through 1 June and you fly out on 11 June, that is 10 overstay days.
2. Apply the penalty tier. Days 1–7 fall inside a 7-day grace window and carry no penalty. From 8 to 14 days the penalty is a flat US$250. At 15 days or more it rises to a flat US$500. The bands are flat, not per-day, so a 9-day and a 14-day overstay both cost US$250.
3. Add the applicable visa fee.The DIE charges the overstay penalty “in addition to the applicable visa fee.” That base fee depends on your visa category and nationality group: tourist US$50 (US$20 for SAARC), business US$55 (US$30 for SAARC), and residence US$200. A child under 12 on a tourist visa pays no base fee. Within the grace period nothing extra is due, so this calculator only adds the base fee once a penalty applies.
4. Read the total. The total payable is the penalty plus the applicable visa fee, shown in USD. The counter at Bandaranaike International Airport bills in USD, so the rupee figure here is an editable planning estimate using a reference rate — the airport applies the official rate of the day.

Two independent code paths compute the penalty — an inline threshold check and a walk of the published tier table — and the calculator only shows its “Gazette tier verified” badge when both agree, guarding against an off-by-one at the 7/8 and 14/15 boundaries. Every figure is a named constant tied to the DIE source and re-checked under a dated LAST_VERIFIED cadence.

• Department of Immigration & Emigration — Visa Fees & overstay penalties
• Sri Lanka ETA — official visa fee schedule
• Parliament of Sri Lanka — Consultative Committee note on the revised overstay Orders

The current US$250 / US$500 tiers were set by Gazette Extraordinary No. 2337/10 (21 June 2023), an Order under the Immigrants and Emigrants Act No. 20 of 1948. Amounts were last cross-checked against the DIE and ETA pages on 2026-07-10. This tool is informational and not legal advice — the Department decides each case, including any detention, deportation or blacklisting.