Consulates in Edinburgh

Many of the 48* foreign consulates based in Scotland are located in Edinburgh. Embassies and High Commissions are largely based in London.
Edinburgh's consulates work to promote contacts between their countries and Scotland, and to support their citizens who are temporarily or permanently resident in the Scotland.   For UK Residents wishing to travel they often help with  arrangements for  visas.
Consulates can also fulfil a crucial role in public diplomacy, in facilitating cultural and academic links,  and in promoting trade - assisting companies to invest and to import and export goods and services both inwardly to their home country and outward to their host country.
Information about the Edinburgh Consular Corps is available from The City of Edinburgh Council website.

( * information correct at April 2008)