UK, US & Schengen Visa Fees From Sri Lanka, in Rupees

Consular fee plus any separately-charged biometric fee, for one adult, converted at the reference rates of 2026-09-26. Visa application centre service fees are deliberately left out: they are not published for every mission, and excluding them is the only way these rows compare like with like.

Canada's rupee figure includes the CAD 85 biometric fee, because a Sri Lankan applicant always pays it. Sources: the fee schedules listed at the bottom of this page. Verified 2026-09-26.

A visa is never one fee. It is a consular fee set by the issuing government in its own currency, sometimes a separate biometric fee, a service fee charged in rupees by whoever runs the submission centre in Colombo, and optional premium services. This calculator adds those four things in that order and converts only the parts that need converting.

1. Resolve the fee row

Destination plus visa type selects one row holding the per-person fee for each age band, any family maximum, the biometric fee and its age window, the published premium services, and a source URL for every figure. No row ships without a primary source: if a mission's fee could not be read from its own publication, the row carries no number rather than an estimate.

2. Charge each age band its own fee

The five age bands exist because the thresholds genuinely differ. Under Article 16 of the EU Visa Code the Schengen short-stay fee is €90 from age 12, €45for ages 6 to 11 and nothing below 6. The UK and the US charge a newborn the adult fee. Canada charges every age the same visa fee but only charges biometrics from 14. A single “children” field cannot express all three, so the bands are written out per mission rather than derived from a rule.

3. Apply the family maximums

Canada has two, and they trigger at different party sizes: the visitor-visa fee is capped at CAD 500 for a family of five or more applying at the same time and place, and biometrics at CAD 170 for a family of two or more. A couple with two young children therefore hits the biometric cap and not the visa cap — the single most common mistake in agent quotes. The formula is min(perPerson × applicants, familyMax), applied only once the party reaches the cap's threshold.

4. Convert once, not band by band

The foreign-currency amounts are summed exactly, converted once, and only then rounded to the rupee: lkr = round((consular + biometrics + extras) × rate). Converting each band separately and adding the rounded pieces drifts by a few rupees on a family application, which is why the total is computed from one multiplication. The rate defaults to the mid-market cross-rate on 2026-09-26 and you can type your own; the page states the rate beside every rupee figure.

5. Add the rupee charges without converting them

The visa application centre publishes its service fee in rupees, tax inclusive, per application — Switzerland's Colombo centre states its charge as inclusive of VAT at 18% and SSCL at 2.5%. Converting a rupee-denominated fee through an exchange rate would be wrong twice over, so it is added as-is and multiplied by the number of applications.

6. Check the answer twice

The total is recomputed by a second, independent route: the party is expanded into a list of individual applicants, each one is charged on their own, the caps are applied to those sums, and the result converted once. The first method multiplies a band count by a band fee; the second walks people. They share no arithmetic, so when the badge says the recount agrees it is evidence rather than a restatement. Both are reconciled by hand against five worked examples recorded in the data module, including the two Canadian cap boundaries.

What the tool will not do is invent a number. Agent and consultant charges, flights, insurance, medicals, translations, the UK health surcharge, the US SEVIS fee and Australian credit-card surcharges are all real costs; the page names each one where it applies and never folds it into a total it cannot source.

• UK Home Office — Home Office immigration and nationality fees, 8 October 2026
• GOV.UK — Standard Visitor visa: apply
• GOV.UK — Student visa: fees
• GOV.UK — Immigration Health Surcharge: how much you pay
• US Department of State — Schedule of Fees for Consular Services, Nonimmigrant and Special Visa Fees (88 FR 18245)
• U.S. Embassy in Sri Lanka — Visas
• IRCC — Citizenship and immigration application fees: fee list
• European Commission — Schengen visa fee increased 11 June 2024 (Visa Code Article 16)
• Australian Department of Home Affairs — Visa Pricing Estimator
• Central Bank of Sri Lanka — Daily Indicative Exchange Rates

Every consular fee on this page was read from the source above on 2026-09-26 and is reviewed every 90 days. Two things are deliberately missing. Visa application centre service fees: the centres publish them only on their own Sri Lanka pages, which refuse automated reading, so you enter the figure they quote you. And the Australian subclass 600 charge, which Home Affairs publishes only through its pricing estimator. In both cases an unsourced number would have been worse than an honest gap.

This page is about Sri Lankans travelling out. For whether you need a visa at all, see the visa-free countries finder. For foreigners coming to Sri Lanka, see the ETA visa fee calculator and the visa extension fee calculator. For the passport itself, the passport fee calculator. For today's rate rather than the dated one used here, the LKR exchange rate tracker.