Complaints procedure
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office is committed to providing a high-quality service to everyone we deal with. We welcome your views on the services that the Embassy provides, as they will help us to identify what we do well and what we could do better.
Complaints, feedback and suggestions on consular services
If you have any complaints, feedback or suggestions about the consular service provided please send details of your complaint using our online feedback form, or in writing to:
Customer Interaction Team
Consular Directorate
Room WH4.36
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
King Charles Street
London
SW1A 2Ah
We aim to respond to complaints relating to consular services within 20 working days.
Find out more about our complaints procedures.
Customer research
We also work with partner research agencies to conduct customer satisfaction research on our services. If you have sought consular assistance overseas and have provided your contact details to us, we may ask you to take part in our customer satisfaction research.
Find out more about our feedback programme and research.
We are not able to respond to any queries or complaints about UK visas or British passports.
Passports
If your complaint is about British passports contact HM Passport Office.
Visas
If your complaint is about UK visas contact UK Visas and Immigration.
Or if you have a query, question or feedback on visas from (post name) please visit the UK visas website.
General complaints
If you wish to comment, complain or make a suggestion about our services, please write to:
Director of Corporate Services
British High Commission
140 Sussex Drive
Ottawa, ON K1N 5A2
All complaints will be investigated. A reply will be sent within two weeks and where this is not possible, we shall send you a brief interim response explaining why. The sooner we know about any difficulties you may be encountering, the sooner we can help put them right.