The summer time holidays might be over however Britons are nonetheless travelling, Mallorca for instance is having fun with a god begin to the off-season. And, the Foreign Office has issued a £125 alert to all British passport holders. A brand new replace posted on X, previously Twitter, addresses travellers from the UK who’re already overseas. It reads: “Lost your passport overseas? If your passport is misplaced, stolen or broken, you’ll want an Emergency Travel Document to get residence.
“They price £125 & can often be collected after 2 working days.” A graphic accompanying the alert merely advises: “Keep your passport protected”. The FCO states: Travel urgently from overseas with out your UK passport. An emergency journey doc enables you to journey from overseas if you must journey urgently and can’t use your UK passport. It is often solely legitimate for one single or return journey.
You can journey via a most of 5 nations. You can apply for an emergency journey doc if all the next apply:
you’re a British nationwide
you’re outdoors the UK
you must journey inside 6 weeks
your UK passport has been misplaced, stolen, broken, is full, has just lately expired or is with HM Passport Office or a overseas embassy
you can not renew or exchange your UK passport from overseas earlier than you journey
you could have had a legitimate UK passport that was issued on or after 1 January 2006
If you haven’t had a passport issued on or after 1 January 2006
If you haven’t had a UK passport that was issued on or after 1 January 2006, you’ll often want to use for a UK passport as a substitute of an emergency journey doc.
You may have the ability to get an emergency journey doc if all the next apply:
you could have, or are eligible for, British nationality
you’re outdoors the UK
you must journey inside 6 weeks
you could have an pressing and unplanned cause to journey as a consequence of distinctive circumstances
Exceptional circumstances could embody if: your little one was born unexpectedly
you want pressing medical therapy that you just can not entry with out journey to a different nation
you want to attend the funeral of a detailed relative
If you haven’t had a UK passport that was issued on or after 1 January 2006, you can not get emergency journey paperwork for actions equivalent to holidays, weddings, household occasions and job interviews. You’ll have to clarify and supply proof to indicate why your journey is pressing and important. Applications are assessed on a case by case foundation.
