The Legal and Consular Section
The Legal and Consular Department is the biggest working unit of the embassy and with its versatile range of duty, often the first contact point.
More than 35 members of staff handle over 15,000 passport applications and 22,000 visa applications per year, and advise over 150 applicants per day.
Among the tasks of the Consular Department are also family law affairs, eg. registration of births, name declarations, certification of signatures and copies of eg. applications for certificates of inheritance, as well as the assistance of German prisoners and the support of German nationals in emergency situations and intergovernmental legal assistance.
The Legal and Consular Department is also responsible for observing and evaluating legal policy in the UK.
For an extensive overview of the tasks, as well as more information, please go to
