Eligible Persons

Non-nationals either on temporary visit to Sri Lanka or intending to visit Sri Lanka

Type of Account

These accounts may be opened only in the form of savings accounts in designated foreign currencies such as -

• US Dollars
• Singapore Dollars
• Canadian Dollars
• Sterling Pounds
• Australian Dollars
• Euro
• Swiss Francs
• Hong Kong Dollars
• Japanese Yens
• New Zealand Dollars
• Swedish Kroners
• Danish Kroners
• Norwegian Kroners
  
  Permitted Credits (Deposits)

• Inward Remittances received in favour of the account holder.
• Foreign currency in the form of travellers’ cheques, bank draft or designated foreign currency notes brought into the country by the account holder on declaration to Sri Lanka Customs as applicable during the visitor’s temporary visits to Sri Lanka and tendered in person to the Authorized Dealer, provided that the travellers’ cheques have been issued outside Sri Lanka and the Bank drafts endorsed in the name of the account holder.
• Interest accruing on the funds held in the account.
• Transfers from FCBU account of the account holder or the company on whose behalf temporary visit to Sri Lanka is undertaken.

Permitted Debits (Withdrawals)

• Withdrawals in Sri Lanka Rupees for local disbursements.
• Withdrawals in foreign currency.
• Outward remittances.

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