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When someone dies abroad: advice by country

Local rules and procedures, including registering the death, funerals and cremations, and bringing the person’s body or ashes to the UK.

From:
Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Published
18 May 2016
Last updated
4 October 2022 — See all updates

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Updates to this page

Published 18 May 2016
Last updated 4 October 2022 + show all updates

  1. Bereavement guidance added for Dominican Republic

  2. Guidance for Japan added.

  3. We have added the bereavement pack for Poland

  4. Added Lithuania bereavement pack

  5. Updated collection with Slovakia bereavement pack

  6. Added Cuba Bereavement Pack

  7. Bahamas was added

  8. Updated March 2018

  9. Added Georgia bereavement pack to collection

  10. Updated January 2018

  11. Amended October 2017

  12. Belarus added

  13. Added St. Lucia

  14. Bereavement guida for Macedonia added

  15. Added information for Malta

  16. Added Jamaica to list

  17. Bereavement information added for Iceland, Malawi, Madagascar and Greece

  18. Bolivia - bereavement pack/information added

  19. Belize - bereavement pack/information added

  20. Added information for Finland.

  21. First published.

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