EMERGENCY SERVICES

Welfare and Whereabouts

If your American citizen friend or relative is traveling or residing in India and you have reason to be concerned about their welfare or need to contact them in an emergency, the Consulate General can be of some assistance in attempting to locate and make contact with the missing American citizen. If you wish to check on the welfare and whereabouts of an American Citizen in India, please contact the Consulate General at 4033-8300, ext. 8441 or 8385 or 8406. (When calling from the U.S. remember first to dial 011-91-40.)

Privacy Act Issues

The provisions of the Privacy Act require that U.S. citizens over the age of 18 must provide a written Privacy Act waiver before we can release information about them to third parties. This means that if the U.S. citizen you are looking for does not sign a Privacy Act waiver and agree to the release of information about his or her whereabouts, the U.S. Department of State and U.S. embassies and consulates abroad cannot release that information to you absent the applicability of one of the Act's conditions of disclosure. See the Department of State Prefatory Statement of Routine Uses Regarding Release of Records Under the Privacy Act. If there is no Privacy Act Waiver, we can simply confirm whether or not we were able to contact the individual, but cannot provide other information.