Minister Vijitha Herath says that the stock of new foreign passports received in Sri Lanka will be distributed from today (21).
He claims that this will end the queues for passports.
With the 750,000 foreign passports ordered soon to run out, another passport crisis is likely.
Therefore, it was decided in the special cabinet meeting held on the 11th to go to a procurement process for providing normal passports and import more passports according to a tender procedure.