The Consular Section offers help which is appropriate to the individual circumstances of each case, including:

• issue emergency travel documents;
• providing information about transferring funds;
• providing appropriate help if you have suffered rape or serious assault, are a victim of a crime or are in hospital;
• helping people with mental illness;
• providing details of local lawyers, interpreters, doctors and funeral directors;
• doing all we properly can to contact you within 24 hours of being told that you have been detained;
• offering support and help in a range of other cases, such as child abductions, death of relatives overseas, missing people and kidnapping;
• contacting family or friends for you if you want and
• making special arrangements in cases of terrorism, civil disturbances or natural disasters