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.
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 |
Notarial and related matters
| 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 |
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) | 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.