What a Consulate Can and Cannot Do for You
What can a Consulate do for you?
Consular services provided by the Consular Section of the Embassy of Uruguay in Australia:
Identity and travel documentation
- Renewal of identity cards and passports
- Issuance of a passport for the first time
- Emergency passport issuance
- Safe - conduct for return to Uruguay
Authorisations for minors
- Minor's permission to travel abroad
- Minor's permit to reside in Uruguay
- Minor's permit to issue or renew a Uruguayan passport
Powers of attorney and authorisations
- Power of Attorney – Social Security Bank (BPS)
- Power of Attorney for AFAP reimbursement
- General Power of Attorney or Special Power of Attorney
- Authorise acts that can be performed by notaries public
Registrations and certificates
- Birth registration with the Civil Registry of Uruguay
- Testimony of birth, marriage, or death certificates
- Certificate of judicial record (Police Check)
- Proof of Life Certificate
Procedures with Uruguayan organisations
- BPS Personal User Registration Request
- Return to the Republic
- Visa management for foreigners
Consular assistance and protection
- Removal of ashes or mortal remains
- Assistance to injured people
- Information and advice to family members in cases of accidents, deaths or catastrophes
- Interest in Uruguayan citizens detained or in prison and, under certain circumstances, transmission of messages to their relatives
- Protection of minors or incapacitated persons, especially in relation to guardianships or conservatorships
- Verification that citizens on trial have adequate defence and due process is respected
- Request for the whereabouts of people before local authorities
- Attention to inheritance issues of Uruguayan citizens who died abroad
- Contact with family members to report situations and needs
- Guidance on legal, medical, notarial assistance, among others
What a Consulate CANNOT do for you?
Uruguayan consulates have specific consular assistance and protection functions. However, they are not authorised to carry out the following procedures:
- Carry out procedures related to visas issued by Australia or New Zealand
- Provide information on consular requirements established by the Australian or New Zealand authorities
- Apply for the issuance, extension or modification of visas to enter or remain in Australia or New Zealand
- Request extensions or extensions of stay as a tourist
- Intervening as a party in legal proceedings or preventing a person from being sent to prison
- Provide legal advice or act on your behalf in court
- Manage preferential treatment in hospitals, prisons or other institutions in the country of residence
- Perform functions typical of travel agencies, employment agencies, airlines, banks or other private companies
- Provide tickets or economic resources to return to Uruguay or to continue their journey, except in exceptional cases of humanitarian repatriation
- Take care of the payment of personal bills (accommodation, medical assistance, legal, etc.)
- Manage accommodation, employment, residence or work permits, or to act as a guarantor.
- Legalise your immigration status with local authorities