Belgians in distress

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Your first reflex should be to seek help from people or available organisations:

  • Your family, friends, employer;
  • Your tour operator or transport company;
  • Your travel insurance (sometimes proposed by your credit card company);
  • Your mutuality;
  • Your bank;
  • Local emergency services (police, hospitals).

If your situation is serious and you cannot find assistance on your own, you can contact our Belgian representations abroad for consular assistance.

Beware: you cannot benefit from consular assistance if:

  1. You are travelling to an area for which the FPS Foreign Affairs gives negative travel advice: see the section Travel Advice.
  2. You are going to an area of armed conflict.
  3. You have not responded to the FPS Foreign Affairs' call to leave the region where you are staying.
  4. You take extraordinary risks, without any suitable insurance.
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Travel advice

In this section you will find all the important information when travelling abroad.

Useful links

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Travel advice

In this section you will find all the important information when travelling abroad.
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For Belgians abroad

On this page you will find all consular information if you are Belgian and live abroad.