New Embarkation and Disembarkation cards launched

The Department of Immigration and Emigration, Sri Lanka, the merit award winner at the Taiki Akimoto 5S awards further demonstrated its commitment to continuously increase its level of service quality and productivity by embarking on an initiative to launch newly designed Embarkation and Disembarkation cards for this year, in partnership with Sri Lanka Telecom Mobitel, the National Mobile Service Provider and a fully owned subsidiary of Sri Lanka Telecom.

The launch took place recently at the Trans Asia Hotel. Foreign dignitaries from British, USA, Canadian, Royal Norwegian, Chinese and Maldivian High Commissions and Heads of Government authorities were present.

This initiative came about as a result of the Department of Immigration and Emigration’s efforts in introducing a new and advanced border control system. Controller General, Department of Immigration and Emigration P.B. Abeykoon said, “This has been a long- standing wish of us and we hope that these cards with bar codes, which can be scanned, would make it much easier to obtain passenger data and information.

There has been an increase in passenger movement with over five million arrival and departure passengers per year.