{"id":133884,"date":"2023-04-22T14:30:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T21:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=133884"},"modified":"2023-04-22T14:31:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T21:31:03","slug":"travellers-to-sri-lanka-alerted-about-fraudulent-visa-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/04\/22\/travellers-to-sri-lanka-alerted-about-fraudulent-visa-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"Travellers to Sri Lanka alerted about fraudulent visa websites."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The High Commission of India in Colombo has issued an advisory for travellers to Sri Lanka on fraudulent visa websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Controller General of Immigration &amp; Emigration of Sri Lanka has warned travellers to Sri Lanka about misleading websites that charge exorbitant fees for Sri Lanka ETA (Electronic Travel Authorization) visas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The high commission noted that the Immigration &amp; Emigration Department is the \u2018issuing authority\u2019 of Sri Lanka ETA visa and the correct link for its website is as follows:&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigration.gov.lk\/\">https:\/\/www.immigration.gov.lk\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thereby, the travellers are advised to use only the official Sri Lankan government website for ETA visa:<strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eta.gov.lk\/slvisa\/\">http:\/\/www.eta.gov.lk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The High Commission of India in Colombo has issued an advisory for travellers to Sri Lanka on fraudulent visa websites. The Controller General of Immigration &amp; Emigration of Sri Lanka has warned travellers to Sri Lanka about misleading websites that charge exorbitant fees for Sri Lanka ETA (Electronic Travel Authorization) visas. The high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}