Europe

Insurance

 

We recommend that you obtain comprehensive travel and medical insurance before travelling.  You should check any exclusions, and that your policy covers you for the all activities you want to undertake.  For more general information see Travel insurance.

If things do go wrong when you are oversees then this is How we can help.

Registration

Register with our LOCATE service to tell us when and where you are travelling abroad or where you live abroad so our consular and crisis staff can provide better assistance to you in an emergency. 

Emergency Passports

The British Consulate-General, Düsseldorf is the only passport issuing post within Germany.  However Emergency Passports (EPs) can be obtained from either the British Embassy Berlin, the British Consulates-General,  Munich and Düsseldorf, or the Honorary-Consul office Hamburg (arranged by calling the British Embassy Berlin).

An Emergency Passport is a piece of paper valid for 1 journey to the UK.  This paper is usually surrendered on arrival to the UK and you must then obtain a new passport from your nearest Passport Office in the UK.

A call centre now handles all passport enquiries. If you wish to speak to an operator please call Careline on 0044 208 082 4723 or from Austria 0044 208 082 4724 between 08:00 and 17:00 GMT Monday to Friday. Alternatively please email consular.section@duesseldorf.mail.fco.gov.uk.

 

Money

 

Since 15 June 2007 new legislation on the controls of cash entering or leaving the EU apply in all Member States.  Any person entering or leaving the EU will have to declare the cash that they are carrying if this amounts to 10,000 euros or more; this includes cheques, travellers' cheques, money orders, etc.  This will not apply to anyone travelling via the EU to a non-EU country, as long as the original journey started outside of the EU nor to those travelling within the EU.