UK help and services in Nigeria

Services if you're visiting, studying, working or living in Nigeria. Includes information about trading with and doing business in the UK and Nigeria.

Emergency help for British nationals in Nigeria

Get help if you're the victim of crime, you've been arrested, or are affected by a crisis abroad.

Passports and emergency travel documents in Nigeria

Includes how to cancel a lost passport, renew a passport and apply for an emergency travel document.

Travelling to Nigeria

Includes travel advice and how to get married abroad.

Coming to the UK from Nigeria

Get a visa to study, work or visit the UK.

Living in Nigeria

Includes how to access healthcare, get a document legalised, lists of lawyers and how to vote abroad.
  • Use the online service to get a UK document legalised.

  • Information for British citizens moving to or living in Mali, including guidance on residency, healthcare and driving.

  • Information for British citizens moving to or living in Nigeria, including guidance on residency, healthcare and passports.

  • FCDO travel advice for Nigeria. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.

  • List of English-speaking medical facilities for British nationals in Nigeria.

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

  • 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

  • Find out how to vote in UK elections if you move or live abroad, including eligibility, registering to vote and renewing your registration.

Tax, benefits, pensions and working abroad in Nigeria

Includes how to pay tax, claim State Pension and get tax credits abroad.

Birth, death and marriage abroad in Nigeria

Includes how to get married, list of funeral directors and how to register a birth abroad.

News and events in Nigeria

Find out about the UK government's diplomatic, security and development work in Nigeria.

Trade and invest: Nigeria

Includes investing and setting up a business in the UK and doing business in Nigeria.

British embassy or high commission in Nigeria

Includes contact details, opening hours and consular fees and local services.