Can anyone tell me what FCO stands for - as in British FCO.

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Often shortened to the Foreign Office

Employs our Ambassadors and Diplomats

Responsible for carrying out our foreign policy

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Often shortened to the Foreign Office

Employs our Ambassadors and Diplomats

Responsible for carrying out our foreign policy

Thanks, mate.

As an aside, FCO, as correctly defined by Prakanong, is used as the Authority identifier on UK Passports which have been issued by Embassies.

Regards

As an aside, FCO, as correctly defined by Prakanong, is used as the Authority identifier on UK Passports which have been issued by Embassies.

Regards

Yes - I have it on my last two passports issued in Brussels and Singapore

It does not say which location just FCO

Did they used to put location on them ie if issued in Bangkok did it say as I have had a guy say to me he had problems entering other countries with a passport issued in BKK and it showing that - bullship or true?

There was a time when the issuing location was specified, though it was inconsistent even then. Ultimately it looks like they decided to go for a single approach. My most recent passport was issued in BKK and has FCO as identifier.

Regards

I believe they all say FCO now - my 2004 passport has THA as the issuing authority.

Agreed. My last two passports were issued in Brussels and Paris - just FCO.

My last passport says "British Consulate Hong Kong"

Used to be known as The Foreign and Colonial Office

but since the Empires 'gorn'...cor blimey....

its now called The Foreign and Commonwealth Office.(since i believe around 1966..)

Chaps who used to work there were called the likes of ...Caruthers...Frobisher..Sexon -Blake ...double barrel monikors always went down well.....

Now they are just ordinary punters who inhabit the porticos of Whitehall......like my young brother ..EU Desk....Mais Oui......

Used to be known as The Foreign and Colonial Office

but since the Empires 'gorn'...cor blimey....

its now called The Foreign and Commonwealth Office.(since i believe around 1966..)

Chaps who used to work there were called the likes of ...Caruthers...Frobisher..Sexon -Blake ...double barrel monikors always went down well.....

Now they are just ordinary punters who inhabit the porticos of Whitehall......like my young brother ..EU Desk....Mais Oui......

Yweah they all seem to be quite normal now and not the upper class twit of old. There was that documentary about the selection process 10+ years ago though.

One of my old History Professors was on the panel and there was this incredibly dim girl who mixed up Palestine and Israel - I joked with my pal about it and he said, "She actually got in".

When my pal went up for the fast stream there were 14 selected - he was the only non-Oxbridge candidate who got in (now a Deputy Ambassador) - I remember meeting him in the Goats Head pub in Covent Garden after his final interview - it was the 1990 World Cup Semi-Final against Germany!