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When someone dies abroad: advice by country

Local rules and procedures, including registering the death, funerals and cremations, and bringing the person鈥檚 body or ashes to the UK.

From:
Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Published
18 May 2016
Last updated
4 April 2025 鈥� See all updates

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Published 18 May 2016
Last updated 4 April 2025 show all updates

  1. Updated guidance for Indonesia added.

  2. Bereavement guidance added for Dominican Republic

  3. Guidance for Japan added.

  4. We have added the bereavement pack for Poland

  5. Added Lithuania bereavement pack

  6. Updated collection with Slovakia bereavement pack

  7. Added Cuba Bereavement Pack

  8. Bahamas was added

  9. Updated March 2018

  10. Added Georgia bereavement pack to collection

  11. Updated January 2018

  12. Amended October 2017

  13. Belarus added

  14. Added St. Lucia

  15. Bereavement guida for Macedonia added

  16. Added information for Malta

  17. Added Jamaica to list

  18. Bereavement information added for Iceland, Malawi, Madagascar and Greece

  19. Bolivia - bereavement pack/information added

  20. Belize - bereavement pack/information added

  21. Added information for Finland.

  22. First published.

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