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Migrant Blocked Account (MBA)?
Non-Resident Blocked Account (NRBA)?

If you have a Non-Resident Foreign Currency (NRFC), Resident Non-National Foreign Currency (RNNFC), 
Resident Foreign Currency (RFC) accounts or an account maintained in the O -Shore Banking Unit (OBU), 
you can obtain an EFTC and you can use such EFTC for any transaction permitted under the accounts.

Foreign Exchange Earners’ Account (FEEA) 

From your MBA, you can deposit your allowances into a Non-Resident Foreign Currency (NRFC)
account or to one of your overseas accounts.

If you did not buy the property with money you sent to Sri Lanka from overseas, 
you can take the money received from the sale as a part of the migration allowance.



• Shares in companies incorporated in Sri Lanka (both listed and unlisted)
• Units in Unit Trusts
• Treasury bonds
• Treasury bills
• Sri Lanka Development Bonds
• Debentures
• Deposits (i.e. Special Foreign Investment Deposit Accounts -SFIDA)
• Setting up of places of business in Sri Lanka
• Immovable property
• Lending money to Sri Lankan companies (under general or special permission)