I'm a UK citizen who has retired to Cyprus. I have set up a Scottish Power of Attorney to enable my son to take care of my affairs in the UK and, if necessary, deal with things should I cease to be capable in the future. In many years, I hope. Does anyone know what is the procedure to get...

Hi, This forum is an amazing source of valuable and diverse information, my thanks to all the contributors. Taking further advantage of your experience and knowledge, I would like to ask some more questions and welcome your comments. Background: My wife and I are both U.K.nationals currently...

Hello expats, I need to get a PoA attested from the Indian embassy in London. I have my parents in the UK at the moment on a family visit visa. I am giving PoA to my brother in India. Does anyone know if I can use my parents as witnesses? The website says that the witnesses should be someone...

Hi there, I am new here and hope someone can help. We are Canadians applying for residency in NZ. Within the past 5 years, we traveled in Mexico for over a year, therefore we are required to get Federal Police certificates from there for our residency application. We have almost all the...

Hi all, I have a tricky one which I'm still trying to work out. I lived in Dubai up until last year and now live in Australia. In my final weeks there, a friend crashed my car before I could sell it. The process of going through insurance, making payment and clearing the financing with the...

Hi All, I am a UK citizen living in the US (CA). I currently own a property in London which I am hoping to sell in the near future. For this to happen I need to transfer power of attorney to my mother to sign documents, etc in my absence. My question is, can I set up a power of attorney here...

I invested in to a property in Dubai with my mother, who has recently passed away. I now wish to cancel the investment and the property agents are stating that I need to claim power of attorney to sign on behalf of my mother. The problem is that I highly doubt that it would be possible to claim...

Hi guys, I will need to provide police checks reports for my VE 175 soon from few countries i lived in the last 10 years (I currently live in Australia). For some of the countires I'm not able to apply for police checkes through their respective embassies in Australia. The only option (that...

If a property in Dubai is in wife and her brother in law's name and they want the husband to act in renting/leasing/paying bills matters then does the husband require a POA from wife and brother in law? Owners are is in UK and husband is in Dubai. If he does then what steps should be followed...

Thanks to Forum members who have responded to my questions in the past! :) We relocated from the States to Edinburgh mid-2010. We have realized, belatedly, that we have made no provision for what would happen to our small children if something happened to us (hit by bus sort of thing). We have...

Hi all! I'd really appreciate help with this. I am an American living overseas. I want to notorize a PoA letter from America (to settle a debt with a debt settlement company) but I am not there. So is it even possible to get this PoA letter notorized oversea? My possible future...