Family Tracing

Our international family tracing service may be able to help you:

• find your missing family
• send a message to your family (but not money or packages)
• get a certificate of detention for people who have been imprisoned

This is a free and confidential service to help families reconnect. We won’t pass on your information to anyone else without your permission.

You can search for your nearest international family tracing service to make an appointment.

In the appointment we’ll ask questions about your relative and where you think they might be. We’ll also help you to fill out a form.

We can provide an interpreter for your appointment if you can’t speak English.

It is likely there will be reduced capacity or ability for other Red Cross/ Crescent Societies to respond to tracing enquiries due to global coronavirus restrictions. These will be evaluated on a case by case basis.

We can’t promise to find your relative, but we’ll contact our colleagues in that country and let you know as soon as we get any news.

You can also check if your family are looking for you and add your photo to our Trace the Face website.

If you are a refugee, we may also be able to help you reunite with your family in the UK.

Together Now supports refugees living in the UK to reunite with family members they have been forced to leave behind whilst fleeing persecution. They also provide a useful document with the likely costs of a family reunion and what will need to be thought through.