The Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in New York conducted a Consular Mobile Service recently on the sidelines of the 18th Annual Cricket Festival organized by the Ananda College Old Boys’ Association East Coast in the United States.

According to the Mission, the Consular Mobile Service was conducted in New Jersey on Saturday (28 June).

During the Consular Mobile Service, the Mission staff served more than 50 Sri Lankan community members residing in the Tri-states area of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut by accepting new applications for passports, dual citizenship, birth registrations, citizenship certificates, and visas. 

The Mission staff also provided information on the consular services extended to the Sri Lankan community in the Tri-State area.

The Ananda College Old Boys’ Association East Coast in the United States and the USA-Sri Lanka Chamber of Commerce assisted the Mission in organizing the Consular Mobile Service. (Newswire)

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The government has announced a new initiative to issue copies of birth, marriage, and death certificates to Sri Lankans living abroad through Sri Lankan embassies, aimed at providing greater convenience to the expatriate community.

According to the President’s Media Division (PMD), the program will be launched as a pilot project across seven selected foreign missions, including the embassies in Kuwait, Japan, and Qatar, and the consulates in Melbourne (Australia), Toronto (Canada), Milan (Italy), and Dubai (UAE).

In Sri Lanka, efforts are underway to enhance the e-BMD (electronic Birth, Marriage, and Death) database system, which is jointly managed by the Registrar General’s Department and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This will allow birth, marriage, and death certificates to be issued through foreign embassies, following a model already in place for obtaining certificates at Divisional Secretariat offices across Sri Lanka.

Under the initial phase, only approximately 45 million birth, marriage, and death certificates that have already been scanned and stored in the e-BMD system will be issued. 

These will include records for births, marriages, and deaths that have been registered since January 1, 1960. While the majority of these records will be available, there may be occasional delays in updating certificates that have been revised after their initial entry into the database. (Newswire)

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The proposal by the Minister of Foreign Affairs to establish a Sri Lankan High Commissioners’ Office in Wellington, New Zealand has received Cabinet approval. 

According to the government, the new High Commissioner’s Office is to be established to enhance diplomatic relationships between New Zealand and Sri Lanka.

Thereby, it has been recognized that it is appropriate to establish a Sri Lankan High Commissioners’ Office in Wellington, New Zealand for which the Cabinet approval has been received. (NewsWire)

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