# Sri Lanka passport to Suriname: Visa required

Current access classification: **Visa required** — Traditional visa required before travel.

Access data checked August 24, 2026. Evidence status: **official evidence collected**.

This page concerns ordinary short visits unless an official source states otherwise. Authorities apply the current rule, and individual circumstances can change the applicable treatment.

## Evidence timeline

- **May 1, 2023 — Suriname: 21 named ordinary-passport nationalities subject to visa requirement** (Visa required)
  Government guidance identifies these 21 nationalities as outside the unilateral visa abolition from 1 May 2023, and BIBIS confirms that a visa requirement was reinstated for the 21 countries. This records a visa-required baseline, not an eVisa or visa-on-arrival route.
  - The Government directly names this closed 21-nationality cohort as excluded from the unilateral visa abolition from 1 May 2023; BIBIS confirms the visa requirement was reinstated for the 21 countries.
  - This is normalized as visa_required, not evisa: the official explanation calls the system a digital visa application system but does not establish electronically issued ordinary-tourism visas for this entire cohort. BIBIS separately says visa-required travellers may not travel without a valid visa. No visa-on-arrival route is stated.
  - The Entry Fee is a separate fee/voucher mechanism. It is not treated as a visa, ETA, eVisa or visa-on-arrival status, and it does not displace the stated visa requirement.
  - For Cuba, Dominican Republic and Venezuela, BIBIS says a tourist card was reintroduced alongside the visa for tourist, business and short-stay travel. The card is recorded only as an additional condition, not a separate normalized status.
  - The Government separately states an Entry Fee of USD 50 or EUR 50 plus a VFS Global service fee of USD 8 or EUR 8, payable at each entry; it is not a visa fee or visa category. No visa duration, entries, extension, port, admission result, health, funds or onward-travel condition is inferred. Residence, PSA, transit, CARICOM, diplomatic, service, special, official, international-organization, business, work and third-country-document exceptions are outside this ordinary visitor baseline.
  Official sources:
  - [Government of the Republic of Suriname / Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Business and International Cooperation: Government: travel to Suriname and named visa-abrogation exceptions](https://gov.sr/ministeries/ministerie-van-buitenlandse-zaken-internationale-handel-samenwerking/reizen-naar-suriname/)
  - [Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Business and International Cooperation (BIBIS): BIBIS: explanation of the visa and tourist-card procedure](https://gov.sr/toelichting-op-de-visum-en-toeristenkaartprocedure/)
  - [Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Business and International Cooperation (BIBIS): BIBIS: Entry Fee procedure and valid-visa requirement](https://gov.sr/ministerie-van-bibis-benadrukt-procedure-entry-fee/)

- **May 1, 2023 — Suriname: 21 named ordinary-passport nationalities subject to visa requirement** (Visa required)
  Current Government guidance identifies these 21 nationalities as excluded from unilateral visa abolition from 1 May 2023, and BIBIS confirms their visa requirement was reinstated. This is a visa-required baseline, not a visa-on-arrival policy or a finding of electronically issued visas.
  - The Government directly names this closed 21-nationality cohort as excluded from unilateral visa abolition from 1 May 2023; BIBIS confirms the visa requirement was reinstated for the 21 countries.
  - The Government’s E-Visa directory and BIBIS explanation establish an authorized online application service, but the opened official workflow does not state that a final ordinary visitor visa for this whole cohort is issued electronically. It is consequently normalized as visa_required, not evisa.
  - No visa-on-arrival route is stated. The separate Government Entry Fee voucher is not treated as a visa, ETA, eVisa or visa-on-arrival status, and does not displace the visa requirement.
  - For Cuba, Dominican Republic and Venezuela, BIBIS says a tourist card was reintroduced alongside the visa for tourist, business and short-stay travel. This alternate document is retained as a condition, not a separate normalized status.
  - No visa duration, entries, extension, port, admission result, health, funds or onward-travel condition is inferred. Residence, PSA, transit, CARICOM, diplomatic, service, special, official, international-organization, business, work and third-country-document exceptions are outside this ordinary visitor baseline.
  Official sources:
  - [Government of the Republic of Suriname / Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Business and International Cooperation: Government: travel to Suriname and named visa-abrogation exceptions](https://gov.sr/ministeries/ministerie-van-buitenlandse-zaken-internationale-handel-samenwerking/reizen-naar-suriname/)
  - [Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Business and International Cooperation (BIBIS): BIBIS: explanation of the visa and tourist-card procedure](https://gov.sr/toelichting-op-de-visum-en-toeristenkaartprocedure/)
  - [Government of the Republic of Suriname: Government e-services directory: E-Visa](https://gov.sr/e-services/)

## Useful links

- [HTML evidence page](https://multipassrank.com/sri-lanka-suriname-visa)
- [Sri Lanka passport access](https://multipassrank.com/passport/sri-lanka)
- [All passport requirements for Suriname](https://multipassrank.com/destination/suriname)
- [Dataset license](https://multipassrank.com/data-license)