Consular services fees
Fees charged for services at British embassies, high commissions and consulates, including certification, legalisation and emergency travel document fees.
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) charges a fee for the consular services provided by embassies, high commissions and consulates.听
You鈥檒l pay the same fee for each service in every country and will get an official receipt when you pay.
Fees are charged in British pounds. Consular exchange rates are set by the FCDO in the UK and reviewed each month. When you pay for a service by card, we collect the fee in British pounds.听
Not all services are available in every location.
Costs are shown in British pounds. You can convert fees to local currency using the current consular exchange rate.
Legalisation
| Fee number | Consular service | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Legalising a signature or seal: | 听 |
| (i) | Standard Service in the UK | 拢45 |
| (ii) | Standard Service in the UK (Next Day) | 拢40 |
| (iii) | Digital (e-Apostille) | 拢35 |
| (iv) | Urgent Service in the UK | 拢100 |
| (v) | Overseas Service (in addition to direct costs, if any) | 拢40 |
Notarial and related matters
| Fee number | Consular service | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Preparing any certificate, declaration or document not listed elsewhere in this table: | 听 |
| (i) | in English | 拢50 |
| (ii) | in any other language | 拢50 |
| 3 | Signing a declaration of existence (except if required by a department of His Majesty鈥檚 Government in the United Kingdom) | 拢25 |
| 4 | Administering an oath, declaration or affirmation | 拢50 |
| 5 | Witnessing a signature | 拢25 |
| 6 | Certifying a copy of a document | 拢25 |
| 7 | Uniting documents and Marking of Exhibits | 拢25 |
| 8 | Supplying certified copies of documents which form part of the records of a court which is, or was formerly, established under the Foreign Jurisdiction Acts 1890听and 1913, for each page | 拢50 |
Nationality
| Fee number | Consular service | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | Administering an oath of British Citizenship under the British Nationality Act 1981 | 拢100 |
Births, marriages, civil partnerships and deaths
| Fee number | Consular service | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | Receiving notice of an intended marriage, civil partnerships or overseas relationship | 拢50 |
| 11 | Issuing a certificate that no impediment to an intended marriage or civil partnership has been shown to exist, or issuing any local equivalent document for an intended marriage or overseas relationship in accordance with local law: | 听 |
| (i) | in English | 拢50 |
| (ii) | in any other language | 拢50 |
| 12 | Solemnising and administering oaths for consular marriage; or registering or converting a civil partnership into marriage | 拢150 |
| 13 | Administering an application for the registration of a birth or a death | 拢150 |
| 14 | Making an addition to or correction in the consular register as necessary | 拢25 |
| 15 | Issuing a certified copy of an entry in the consular register | 拢50 |
| 16 | Making a search in: | 听 |
| (i) | the consular register of births, deaths, marriages or civil partnerships where the number or date of entry is not provided | 拢50 |
| (ii) | the naturalisation, registration or renunciation records kept by a consular officer | 拢50 |
Legal proceedings
| Fee number | Consular service | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| 17 | Forwarding a request to a local authority for the taking of evidence or the service of a document (including affecting service of a document in relation to proceedings in which state immunity is in issue) and returning any evidence received of service or attempted service of a document (provided by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office in proceedings where state immunity is in issue) | 拢150 |
Maritime services
| Fee number | Consular service | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| 18 | Providing or administering a service not otherwise covered in this Schedule in relation to shipping, seamen and related matters, for each hour or part hour (to include travel time if performed away from the consular premises) and in addition to direct costs, if any | 拢150 |
Emergency assistance
| Fee number | Consular service | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | Administering an application for, and if successful providing, an Emergency Travel Document (in addition to direct costs, if any | 拢125 |
| 20 | Exceptionally, administering an application for, and, if successful providing an Emergency Passport, on occasions when it is not possible to provide an Emergency Travel Document (in addition to direct costs, if any) | 拢125 |
| 21 | Arranging, exceptionally, for currency to be made available against the deposit of funds: | 听 |
| (i) | 拢0.01 鈥� 拢99.99 | 拢10 |
| (ii) | 拢100 鈥� 拢499.99 | 拢25 |
| (iii) | 拢500 or more | 拢50 |
Other services
| Fee number | Consular service | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | Providing the services of a consular officer or a consular employee in relation to any other service which the consular post or diplomatic mission has agreed to undertake, for each hour or part hour (to include travel time if performed away from the consular premises) and in addition to direct costs, if any | 拢150 |
Multilingual standard forms
| Fee number | Consular service | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| 23 | Issuing a multilingual standard form | 拢11 |
How fees are calculated
We calculate fees based on how much it costs to run our services around the world.
Consular assistance is funded by a small premium included in the price of every British passport and from the fees we charge for the services listed here.
Fees are approved by the Privy Council and laid before Parliament. The fees are levied under the Consular Fees Order 2016, as amended.
Updates to this page
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Updated emergency assistance fees 19 and 20.
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First published.