Originally Posted by
OmegaV6
An excellent article.l have friends who are consular staff and not only is the scale of the task enormous, they are also having to deal with tens of thousands of ex-pats who, for tax reasons or for climate, have lived abroad for years and have now decided that the British Government should fly them home. The FCO has adopted a risk-based approach: if the individual is in no particular danger they are a low priority for repatriation.