Prisoners Abroad can only provide services to British citizens detained overseas and their loved ones.

We cannot provide services to:

  • Non-British citizens
  • British dual citizens who are detained in the country of their other nationality (e.g. a British/US dual national detained in the USA). 
  • Any person who may come under the umbrella term of British national but does not have the Right of Abode in the UK. 

This includes:

  1. British Overseas Territories citizens (e.g. citizens of Bermuda)
  2. British Nationals Overseas (e.g. persons who have UK nationality through a connection with Hong Kong)
  3. British subjects (e.g. persons who had a connection to the UK through residency/citizenship of a country which was part of the former British Empire or Commonwealth

For further details and queries about these categories, please contact Prisoners Abroad, or the FCDO. We may only be able to provide a limited service to British dual nationals who are detained in a third country (e.g. a British/US dual national detained in Thailand). This depends on whether you decide to ask the British consular staff to represent you. Should you ask to be represented by the consular staff of your other nationality, this will create difficulties with aspects of our service such as passing on funds. Should you register to Prisoners Abroad as a British citizen and we later receive information to suggest that you are a non-British or dual national in the circumstances listed above, we reserve the right to withdraw all services.