As a part of the initiatives of the Foreign Affairs Ministry to take its consular services to the people, without having to travel to Colombo, the formal opening of the second Regional Consular Office - in Matara - will take place on Friday (15) at 10.30 am.
Foreign Affairs Minister Tilak Marapana and Finance and Mass Media Minister Mangala Samaraweera will open the office in the presence of Ministers, Deputy Ministers and Members of Parliament representing the Southern Province.
Consular services to be extended to the public would include attestation of birth, marriage and death certificates, educational and other legal documents for their use abroad, extending assistance to family members of Sri Lankans stranded abroad, facilitation of redress and compensation claims of families of migrant workers, and repatriation of human remains from abroad.
The Regional Consular Office is located at No.391, Anagaraika Darmapala Mawatha, Matara.
A regional Consular Office has been functioning in Jaffna since January 2017.
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