We know it can be especially difficulty trying to find someone when you are in a different country. This page offers advice to help people who are looking for someone from overseas who is missing in the UK.
Please note: Missing People are only able to offer support and advice when someone is missing in the UK, or a UK citizen is missing overseas. For people missing in other countries please contact the Police or local government in your country.
You can email us at 116000@missingpeople.org.uk, and we will get back to you within 24 hours.
Our normal phone number won’t connect to us from outside the UK but you can get through to us using +44 20 8392 4545 between 10am and 5pm UK time.
You won’t be able to use our SMS service from overseas. If you would like to message with us you can try our live chat service, which operates between 5:30pm - 10pm UK Time.
Talk to usFrom the UK, dialling 101 will get you through to the local police. From overseas you will need to check the direct dial number for the local Police force here: UK police forces.
You can complete a missing person report to the Police here.
It may help to speak to the government of the person’s home country to see how they can assist. You should be able to find a contact in your own country, or can try contacting an embassy or consulate in the UK directly. Details of different countries’ offices and representatives are here Foreign embassies in the UK.
There may be cultural or community groups that can offer help, such as helping with translating or distributing posters. You can search for these online or use a directory like turn2us. A lot of directories in the UK use postcodes, which go at the end of every address. If you don’t know the postcode of the place where the missing person was staying, you can find it using a partial address here.
If you are separated from someone because of war, natural disaster or migration, the Red Cross or Red Crescent in your own country may be able to help.
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