Living in Sierra Leone

Includes how to access healthcare, get a document legalised, lists of lawyers and how to vote abroad.

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• Get your document legalised

  Use the online service to get a UK document legalised.

• Professional services if you are abroad

  Find English-speaking lawyers, doctors and medical facilities, interpreters and translators, and funeral directors overseas.

• Sierra Leone travel advice

  FCDO travel advice for Sierra Leone. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.

• Sierra Leone – List of Lawyers

  List of English speaking lawyers and translators/interpreters.

• Sierra Leone: doctors

  List of English speaking medical facilities for British nationals in Sierra Leone.

• UK benefits if you’re going or living abroad

  Find out what benefits you might be able to receive while you’re abroad and how to export them from the UK or claim them while abroad

• When someone dies in Sierra Leone

  The process when a British national dies in Sierra Leone, including registering the death, funerals and cremations, and bringing the person’s body to the UK.