Travelling & Living Overseas
Travel advice and tips for British travellers on staying safe abroad and what help the FCO can provide if something goes wrong
- Before you travel, check the FCO travel advice for the country you are visiting, or find out a bit more about passport validity and entry requirements
- read our advice for different types of traveller from backpackers to people getting married overseas
- and sign up for LOCATE, our consular registration service.
Behind the scenes in the Corfu Vice Consulate
Our Vice Consul in Corfu, Sarah Ticherou is blogging about her experiences helping British nationals on the Greek island.
Staying safe and healthy abroad
Everything you need to know to prepare for a stress-free trip abroad.
- Travel checklist
- Travel Health
- Travel insurance
- Driving abroad
- Travel money
- Eat and drink safely
- Tropical cyclones
- Terrorism abroad
- River and sea safety including piracy
How we can help if things go wrong
What if something goes wrong while you’re abroad? Find out how we can help, and what you should do next.
- Information for forced marriage victims
- Sick or injured abroad
- Arrest or detention
- Victims of crime
- Rape and sexual assault abroad
- Coping with death abroad
- Missing persons
- Parental child abduction
Travel advice relevant to you
Different types of traveller need different advice so we've created some checklists aimed at specific groups of people.
- World cup qualifiers travel advice
- Backpackers
- Women travellers
- LGBT travellers
- Disabled travellers
- Winter, water and extreme sports
- Overseas weddings and civil partnerships
- Hajj pilgrims
- Visiting friends and family abroad
- Travelling abroad for medical treatment
- Cruise ship passengers
Be a responsible tourist
We'd like everyone to have care-free holidays but it's important to be aware of things for your own benefit and that of others.
Travel advice by country
In depth advice for every country in the world, updated regularly for all British travellers.
Passport and entry requirements
This page offers guidance on issues you might encounter at passport control - such as how much validity you need on your passport, and what kinds of things might impede you at the immigraiton desk.
Living overseas
Some advice on moving abroad including how the British embassy can help, and links to other useful web pages.
Births, marriages and deaths
Comprehensive information on the services we offer for registering births and deaths and information and forms for overseas weddings or civil partnerships
About the Know Before You Go Campaign
The FCO’s successful campaign to promote travel advice to British travellers. Includes a full list of KBYG campaign partners.
Our publications
Here you will find a range of information leaflets on offering advice on all aspects of travel.
Did you know?
You won’t get stranded abroad if your holiday company goes bust - if it’s registered with an approved travel industry body like ABTA or AITO.
Help & Support
For assistance abroad you can call our Consular Assistance team in London on:
020 7008 1500
or email:
More numbers can be found on our Contact Us page
