– Authorize all acts that Public Notaries can carry out.
– Legalize official documents to be presented to Uruguayan authorities.
– Assist injured people.
– Inform relatives or close people about accidents or deaths, disasters and provide them with advice.
– Be interested in ‘connationals’ detained or in prison and under certain circumstances, transmit messages to relatives.
– Ensure the interests of minors or incapable persons, particularly in relation to the institution of guardianship or curatorship.
– Ensure that citizens subject to trial have adequate defense.
– Request the whereabouts of people from local authorities.
– Try to communicate with family or friends to inform them of your situation and needs.
– Guide you in matters of legal, medical, notarial assistance, etc.
– Be a party to judicial proceedings or have them exempt from going to prison.
– Provide legal advice or pursue legal proceedings on your behalf.
– Provide treatment that is different from that provided to the country’s nationals in hospitals or prisons.
– Perform tasks that correspond to travel agencies, airlines, banks, etc.
– Provide you with tickets or means to return to the Republic or continue your trip to another point, except in very special repatriation circumstances.
– Provide you with money or take care of the payment of your bills (hotel, legal, medical or any other type of bills).
– Manage your accommodation, residence, work or work permit and cannot become your guarantor or guarantor.