Financial assistance
> If you are lack of money abroad, we can provide information about remittance to you, we can help you are willing to send money to you or tickets let you return to United Kingdom's friends and relatives. If your remittance, we will charge a fee.
> If we have to contact your family or friends, we are unable to offer financial assistance. For example, if you need to be hospitalized, we cannot provide money to supplement their pay to visit you transport or accommodation costs.
> You have no right to ask for our emergency financial assistance. You must have adequate travel insurance, because we can't pay for you. If you do not have travel insurance, you will need to take the relevant charges. Only in very special circumstances, and after you have exhausted all other methods of seeking funding, will consider, where appropriate, from the public purse to provide loans to help you return to United Kingdom. You will also need to "commitment to settlement loans" document has not been signed, and shows you have United Kingdom address and have the ability to repay the loan. In most cases, you are required to leave your Passport to our staff as a collateral with respect to staff will be issued only for a one-way return to United Kingdom emergency travel document to you. Before you pay off the loan in full, we will not refund your passport and United Kingdom ID cards and Passport Department (IPS) will not issue a replacement passport for you. We reserve the right to decide whether to grant a loan-even if there is no other way to let you return to United Kingdom, it does not mean that we will agree to lend. You can view our website at www.fco.gov.UK/travel "their money" part of the recommendations to see how overseas when they encounter financial problems themselves.