Battered by economic crisis, Sri Lankans seek passport to a better life

Currency depreciation, inflation of more than 33 percent, and worries of prolonged political and economic uncertainty is pushing many to migrate.

R.M.R Lenora stood in a snaking queue outside Sri Lanka’s Immigration and Emigration Department headquarters for two days last week, hoping to get a passport and, with it, a chance to leave a country wilting under an economic crisis.