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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. 

You’ll 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. 

Not all services are available in every location. Find out which services are available at each embassy, high commission or consulate.

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:  
(i) Standard Service in the UK 45.00
(ii) Standard Service in the UK (Next Day) 40.00
(iii) Digital (e-Apostille) 35.00
(iv) Urgent Service in the UK 100.00
(v) Overseas Service (in addition to direct costs, if any) 40.00
Fee number Consular service Cost
2 Preparing any certificate, declaration or document not listed elsewhere in this table:  
(i) in English 50.00
(ii) in any other language 50.00
3 Signing a declaration of existence (except if required by a department of His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom) 25.00
4 Administering an oath, declaration or affirmation 50.00
5 Witnessing a signature 25.00
6 Certifying a copy of a document 25.00
7 Uniting documents and Marking of Exhibits 25.00
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 and 1913, for each page 50.00

Nationality

Fee number Consular service Cost
9 Administering an oath of British Citizenship under the British Nationality Act 1981 100.00

Births, marriages, civil partnerships and deaths

Fee number Consular service Cost
10 Receiving notice of an intended marriage, civil partnerships or overseas relationship 50.00
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:  
(i) in English 50.00
(ii) in any other language 50.00
12 Solemnising and administering oaths for consular marriage; or registering or converting a civil partnership into marriage 150.00
13 Administering an application for the registration of a birth or a death 150.00
14 Making an addition to or correction in the consular register as necessary 25.00
15 Issuing a certified copy of an entry in the consular register 50.00
16 Making a search in:  
(i) the consular register of births, deaths, marriages or civil partnerships where the number or date of entry is not provided 50.00
(ii) the naturalisation, registration or renunciation records kept by a consular officer 50.00
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) 150.00

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 150.00

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 100.00
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) 75.00
21 Arranging, exceptionally, for currency to be made available against the deposit of funds:  
(i) £0.01 – £99.99 10.00
(ii) £100 – £499.99 25.00
(iii) £500.00 or more 50.00

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 150.00

Multilingual standard forms

Fee number Consular service Cost
23 Issuing a multilingual standard form 11.00

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

Published 31 May 2024

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