From 01/10/09 £1= €1.15
Passports
Adult 32 page	€ 143
Adult 48 page (frequent traveller)	€ 173
Child	€ 91
Consular services
Emergency passport	€ 79
Legalisation fees (Hague Apostille)	€ 43
Administering an Oath or Affidavit	€ 61
Registering a birth/death	€ 113
Birth/death certificate	€ 72
Receiving notice of an intended marriage/civil partnership	€ 72
Issuing a certificate of no impediment to an impending marriage or civil partnership	€ 72
Standard certificate	€ 41
Non-standard certificate	€ 82
Certified copy	€ 29
Witness of Signature	€ 32
Home Office forwarding fee	€ 72
Home Office nationality registration
Registration fee - adult	£ 640*
Registration fee - child	£ 460*
Out of hours attendance fee	€ 147

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* The Home Office registration fees are paid in Euros at the corporate consular rate of exchange in force on the day the application is lodged.

• Aren’t these increases too much? A 10 year full adult passport costs £124 (or €143) from 01 October 2009. This means that it only costs you around £1 (or € 1.15) per month. As well as being a valuable identity document, a British passport gives you access to a far-reaching network of consular support, 24 hours per day, 365 days per year, and when in possession of appropriate visas it ables you to travel freely across international borders.
  
• Is demand for consular services in Spain increasing? According to INE (Instituto Nacional de Estadistica) in 2008 the numbers of British nationals registered as resident in Spain increased by 28% from the number registered in 2006. There are an estimated 1.1 million British Nationals living in Spain. About 17 million visits are made by British nationals to Spain each year. In 2007-8 the Consulates in Spain issued over 6,000 emergency passports, mostly to British Nationals on holiday, a 15% increase on 2006-7. In 2008, the Consulate General in Madrid issued nearly 22,000 passports, a 5% increase on 2007.
  
• Why do you charge for these services? If we did not charge for these services the costs would have to be met from direct taxation. The British tax payer would then be funding a service that the majority would not benefit from and the majority of customers overseas receiving this service would not even be paying a British tax.
  
• When a customer purchases a passport, how is the money spent? The money charged for a full passport is spent on 3 areas:
  1) Passport issuing element - covers the cost of issuing passports overseas.
  2) Consular Premium element - covers the cost of providing consular assistance/help to British nationals who find themselves in difficulty overseas.
  3) Emergency Consular Premium element - covers the extraordinary consular costs arising from disasters overseas that affect British Nationals. This is retained in an emergency fund held by the Treasury.
  
  
• Change in fees for naturalisation and registration as a British national On 06 April 2009 the cost of applying for naturalisation and registration as a British National increased.
  
  
• Why have the fees changed? The Government is currently implementing a major reform of the immigration system, including:
  

• fingerprint checks before people come to the United Kingdom
• a strong new force at the border
• counting people in and out of the United Kingdom
• introducing identity cards for foreign nationals.
  
  Further information on fees for naturalisation and registration as a British National.