Sri Lanka: SL on alert of misuse of visit visas by asylum seekers from Afghanistan to seek asylum in Europe

COLOMBO, 05 September 2021, (TON): The Sri Lanka Defence Ministry has alerted the Immigration and Emigration Department that there would be possibilities that certain foreigners especially from Afghanistan may attempt to enter Sri Lanka using Visit Visas and seek political asylum in Europe through the UNHCR Office in Sri Lanka.

A senior defence official told media that when a large number of Afghan nationals sought political asylum in several Western countries, they might use Sri Lanka to fulfill their requirement similar to the previous occasions.

The official said “there had been several instances in the past where such foreigners had used Sri Lanka to seek asylum in foreign countries.”

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