{"id":150760,"date":"2025-07-18T16:10:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T23:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=150760"},"modified":"2025-07-18T16:10:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T23:10:55","slug":"temporary-driving-licences-for-foreigners-to-be-issued-at-airport-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/07\/18\/temporary-driving-licences-for-foreigners-to-be-issued-at-airport-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"TEMPORARY DRIVING LICENCES FOR FOREIGNERS TO BE ISSUED AT AIRPORT NEXT MONTH"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka plans to launch a programme next month to issue temporary driving licences to foreign visitors directly at the airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Motor Traffic Commissioner General Kamal Amarasinghe told Hiru News that a proper plan needs to be implemented within the Katunayake Airport premises for this initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the new system, temporary driving licences valid for a minimum of 14 days onwards can be issued to foreigners arriving in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Commissioner General further stated that when issuing these temporary driving licences, attention will be paid to the validity period of the foreign visitor&#8217;s original driving licence and the vehicle categories included in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka plans to launch a programme next month to issue temporary driving licences to foreign visitors directly at the airport. Motor Traffic Commissioner General Kamal Amarasinghe told Hiru News that a proper plan needs to be implemented within the Katunayake Airport premises for this initiative. Under the new system, temporary driving licences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150760","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=150760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}