COI Report March 2012 - UK Border Agency - Home Office

SRI LANKA 7 MARCH 2012
registered with the police. In all, 10,820 families were registered. On 5 th October 2008,
registration was extended to people from the three districts of Eastern Province. Figures
showed that 4,449 persons from 1,419 families had migrated from the East over the same 5year
period.
The Department of Census and Statistics is currently conducting the 2011 Census of Population
& Housing. Their website does not indicate when the results of this census will be published,
see: http://www.statistics.gov.lk/PopHouSat/CPH2011/index.php
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Second Secretary (Migration)
This letter has been compiled by staff of the British High Commission in Colombo
entirely from information obtained from the sources indicated. The letter does not reflect
the opinions of the author, nor any policy of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The
author has compiled this letter in response to a request from UKBA and any further
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270 The main text of this COI Report contains the most up to date publicly available information as at 3 February 2012.
Further brief information on recent events and reports has been provided in the Latest News section
to 2 March 2012.