One For The 'RESIDENT' Brits.

During recent communication with the Consulate section of the British Embassy in Santo Domingo on other matters, I was asked if I would draw British Ex-Pats attention to the following 'Registration' service. Times being how they are at present ........... now might not be a bad time to actually 'get round to doing something about it'!

Herewith the HEAVY Sales pitch:cheeky:
We are encouraging all British nationals living in the Dominican Republic to register with our online registration service LOCATE. This is a secure system and only takes a few minutes to register your contact details on it. There is no need to contact us directly.

Registering with LOCATE would allow consular staff to contact you in the eventuality of a crisis as well as to keep your family and friends informed of your wellbeing.

You only need to register with the service ONCE. If you move or travel to another country simply log in and update your LOCATE account.

Your details will be stored on a secure database, which can only be accessed by staff in our Embassy or our Consular Crisis Group.

The registration page is accessible at: www.locate.fco.gov.uk/locateportal/

Hope you can find the time to register if you have not already done so ~ Grahame.

Freemo said:

Yeah so they can come after you for that back tax you inadvertantly forget to pay before leaving good old Blighty.

No thanks, not that I fall into that category...........YET

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If you fall in to that category Freemo (or are likely to at some future stage) then Of COURSE you should avoid anything which might get you additionally noticed! Thanks for the pre-warning :cheeky: aranoid: ~ Grahame.
(PS, I understand Her Majesty's Ambassador to the DR occasionally logs in to DR1 too!! :chinese

Freemo said:

He's got nothing else to do by all accounts

Then if he's looking in let me take this opportunity to say say thanks a bunch for doing NAFF ALL to help my wife when she was put through the ordeal of her life at Punta Cana airport a few years ago.

If I ever need your help again I certainly won't bother to waste my time in asking.

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Freemo.
As you are probably aware, Ambassadors change every 4 years or so. THIS Ambassador is GOOD .......... VERY GOOD!!

Your comments above are so very much in error no matter WHAT the circumstances of the above ordeal! I am not a lover of the British Embassy, I have had MY serious rows with them - I just find THIS administration so much more approachable AND hard working!

Now, back to the theme of this thread. Anyone who has NOT yet got themselves listed on the 'Hopefully secure' registration of Ex-Pats system can do so at the above link. I am reliably informed that data contained on this list is NOT viewable by employees within the Customs & Excise Service (or whatever it is now called) of the United Kingdom!

Look at the advantages, look at the known & assumed disadvantages & then make YOUR decision. ~ Grahame.