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. Check with the embassy, high commission or consulate to find out which consular services are available.

Legalisation

Fee number	Consular service	Cost
1	Legalising a signature or seal:
(i)	Standard Service in the UK	45.00£45
(ii)	Standard Service in the UK (Next Day)	40.00£40
(iii)	Digital (e-Apostille)	35.00£35
(iv)	Urgent Service in the UK	100.00£100
(v)	Overseas Service (in addition to direct costs, if any)	40.00£40

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£50
(ii)	in any other language	50.00£50
3	Signing a declaration of existence (except if required by a department of HerHis Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom)	25.00£25
4	Administering an oath, declaration or affirmation	50.00£50
5	Witnessing a signature	25.00£25
6	Certifying a copy of a document	25.00£25
7	Uniting documents and Marking of Exhibits	25.00£25
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£50

Nationality

Fee number	Consular service	Cost
9	Administering an oath of British Citizenship under the British Nationality Act 1981	100.00£100

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£50
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£50
(ii)	in any other language	50.00£50
12	Solemnising and administering oaths for consular marriage; or registering or converting a civil partnership into marriage	150.00£150
13	Administering an application for the registration of a birth or a death	150.00£150
14	Making an addition to or correction in the consular register as necessary	25.00£25
15	Issuing a certified copy of an entry in the consular register	50.00£50
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£50
(ii)	the naturalisation, registration or renunciation records kept by a consular officer	50.00£50

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£150

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£150

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£125
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£125
21	Arranging, exceptionally, for currency to be made available against the deposit of funds:
(i)	£0.01 – £99.99	10.00£10
(ii)	£100 – £499.99	25.00£25
(iii)	£500.00£500 or more	50.00£50

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£150

Multilingual standard forms

Fee number	Consular service	Cost
23	Issuing a multilingual standard form	11.00£11

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.