US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Julie Chung has confirmed that there has been no change to the travel advisory issued by the US Department of State for Sri Lanka recently.
Ambassador Chung noted that the U.S. Department of State regularly issues travel advisory updates to enable U.S. citizens to make informed decisions about international travel.
“The Travel Advisory issued for Sri Lanka on October 9 remains at Level 2. There was no change to the advisory level,” Ambassador Chung added, in a post on ‘X’.
The clarification comes as several recent reports claimed that the U.S. Department of State has revised its travel advisory for Sri Lanka.
However, the travel advisory was updated last week only to include landmine risks, as lands in the war-affected Northern part of Sri Lanka had been released to the public after several years.
The U.S. Department of State’s travel advisory on Sri Lanka: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/sri-lanka-travel-advisory.html (Newswire)
The @StateDept regularly issues travel advisory updates to allow U.S. citizens to make informed international travel decisions. The Travel Advisory issued for Sri Lanka on October 9 remains at Level 2–there was no change to the advisory level. https://t.co/MuygWSuEdt
— Ambassador Julie Chung (@USAmbSL) October 15, 2025