Belgians in the UK

In this section, you will find information about your registration, how to apply for an identity card or passport, and so on.

  • Online appointments

    From now on you must make an appointment for any form of consular service. Unfortunately, you will not be able to access the Embassy without an appointment.

  • Registration

    On this page you will find all the information about your registration.

  • Registration of a new-born child

    The documents that have to be submitted, depend on the country where you and/or your child are born.

  • Update civil status

    If your civil status has changed, your file in the Belgian National Register will have to be updated.

  • Name change

    Please bear in mind that changing one’s name can have considerable administrative consequences.

  • Legalisation of documents

    A document that is official and legal in one country is not necessarily official and legal in another.

  • Life certificate

    If you are a Belgian citizen (and only if you are Belgian) and you received a life certificate from the Belgian Federal Pension Service to be signed and stamped by this Consulate, you need to make an appointment via our online booking system.

  • Forms

    Forms for Belgian nationals living in the UK

  • My File

    My File is an application of the Federal Public Service Home which allows you to consult your personal file on the National Register.

  • Returning to Belgium

    If you are a Belgian citizen returning to Belgium please consider the following.

Grosvenor Crescent

Address and opening hours

Contact details, opening hours, and closing days of our Embassy in London.

e-Appointment

More consular information

General texts on consular services for Belgians abroad can be found on the FPS Foreign Affairs website.