On this page you'll find information on how to contact the FCO depending on what your enquiry is about.
If you are a British national currently abroad that requires the following:
- Renew or replace a British passport.
- To report a lost or stolen British passport.
- Emergency travel documents.
- Information on passport fees.
Please see our
Passport information page for details and contacts.
The Foreign & Commonwealth Office DOES NOT handle visa operations.
Please contact the UK Border Agency for the following:
- Student visa applications
- Visa appeals
- Indefinite leave to remain
- Residency in the UK
- Settling in the UK
- Visas for visiting the UK
- Visas for partners and families
Any enquiries we receive relating to visas will not be processed by the FCO.
If you are a British national currently abroad that requires the following:
- Renew or replace a British passport.
- To report a lost or stolen British passport.
- Emergency travel documents.
- Information on passport fees.
Please see our Passport information page for details and contacts.
Information on
ATAS
If you are going to use British documents overseas, for business or personal reasons, you’ll probably be asked to have your documents legalised before they can be accepted. Legalisation is the official confirmation that a signature, seal or stamp on a document is genuine.
Please see our
legalisation pages for further information and contact details.
The Foreign Office and all British Embassies offers a
registration service for British nationals visiting or residing in a foreign country.
Contact the FCOFor all enquiries and questions regarding the UK's foreign policy and the FCO's administration and objectives, please use our
feedback form.
Would you like to make an FOI request?
Please see our Access to Information website and details of how to make an FOI request.
Please use our feedback form if you are a British national abroad seeking the following help and assistance.
- Passport, documents and legal issues.
- Victims of terrorist attacks, natural disasters, crime and assault abroad.
- Hospitalisation, imprisonment, stranded abroad.
- Child abduction, kidnapping, missing persons.
Please see the
Historians page for further information and contact details.
For all enquiries and questions regarding the UK's foreign policy and the FCO's administration and objectives, please use our feedback form.
Foreign & Commonwealth Office,
King Charles Street,
London.
SW1A 2AH
For general enquiries phone our switchboard on 020 7008 1500.
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