There are currently six Swedish Honorary Consulates in the United Kingdom: in Belfast, Cardiff, Dover, Edinburgh, Gibraltar and Immingham.
An Honorary Consulate is led by an Honorary Consul and is a person permanently residing on the location of the consulate. The Honorary Consul can be either a Swedish or foreign citizen who has undertaken the voluntary role of honorary consul. There is no remuneration for the role of Honorary Consul.
At some consulates you can collect passports, national ID cards and driving licenses that have been issued elsewhere. One of the consulates can also issue provisional passports (please see below). An Honorary Consulate can also sign life certificates (e.g. for the Swedish Pensions Agency – Pensionsmyndigheten).
Following instructions from and in consultation with the Embassy, consulates can also assist in cases of emergency, imprisonment or death.
Honorary Consulates cannot issue ordinary passports, however, the consulate in Edinburgh can issue provisional passports if needed. You can find more information about provisional passports here.
You can pick up a passport or national ID card that you applied for elsewhere (such as in Sweden or at the Embassy in London) at the Honorary Consulates in Belfast, Edinburgh and Gibraltar. In that case, you need to notify the Embassy by email of where you would like to collect it when you get notified that your passport/ID card is ready.
