The British Vice Consulate in Crete is responsible for helping British residents and visitors who face serious difficulties such as hospitalisation, arrest or death of a family member. In addition, the Consulate offers the following services:

• Obtain a passport application
• Emergency passport
• Marriage notarial work
• General notarial work

For all other services please check the relevant pages in this site.

Regional information

The British Embassy and the British Vice Consulates around Greece have prepared a series of Guidance Notes to help British nationals visiting, living and working in Greece (to access them please visit our Living in Greece pages).  Although much of the information applies to the whole of Greece, here you will find information specific to Crete. 

The following are PDF files and they open in a new window; you will need to have Adobe software to read them (you can download Adobe software from the Adobe website).

• English-speaking lawyers
• Translators / interpreters
• Chania - Useful contact information
• Rethymnon - Useful contact information
• Heraklion - Useful contact information
• Lassithi - Useful contact information