EMBASSIES and
CONSULATES IN BRITAIN:
No one resource can promise to tell you all you need to
know about living and teaching in the UK. But Justteachers
have tried to cover it all!
These are perhaps the useful things to remember whilst
working in Britain:
- We have provided a list of contact details for consulates and embassies in the UK
- If you have a serious problem in the UK and need help they will advise you
- In an emergency they will get you back home, free, but they may take your passport off you if you have been irresponsible!
- Emergencies when they will happily help you with emergency repatriation - sending you home at no cost - will include the death of a family member
- They will get you a translator or interpreter to help you if you are in trouble, with the
British police or authorities, and this may be provided free of charge
- They will provide a list of solicitors who speak your language, and often this list will tell you what kind of work they specialise in (everything from dealing with houses to serious crime)
- Usually consulates and embassies will send somebody to see you if you are being held by the
British police or if you are in prison
- Usually diplomats will not interfere in the processes of the UK or any other country where they are guests
- Some embassies and consulates have telephone numbers which will be expensive to call, and they will keep you waiting. But if you are in trouble, with the
British police for example, then they will have to make those calls for you and at their own cost
- Embassies and consulates also provide other services, including lists of companies from your own country which might be able to offer you work. Usually you should ask for the Commercial Attaché
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