Consular Services

[asdecas]

What services do readers think their embassies and consulates should provide, above and beyond existing ones?

I ask because, damn, you have to love the Aussies: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/11270726/Embassies-not-there-to-pay-for-prostitutes-and-first-class-seats-Australia-warns-pest-travellers.html

[evadgib]

The British consulate offers welcome assistance to travellers who are in trouble abroad, but the Foreign Office is warning there are some things it just cannot help with.

In the last six months staff have been asked for a telephone number for Phil Collins and Prince Charles's shoe size.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15654414

HOW to silence a noisy cockerel, the contact details for Sir Paul McCartney's wife and instructing a woman's husband to lose weight are some of the more unusual requests submitted to British embassies across the world last year.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/400123/Is-that-the-Ambassador-What-does-my-tattoo-mean-bizarre-embassy-requests-revealed

(and these are only the ones they dare release! )

Edited December 5, 2014 by evadgib