Check with the office. The official pages for this service leave out some details, or are older than a year. Use this page as a starting point and confirm fees and documents before you apply.
Permit needed to send the remains of a deceased person from Australia to Bosnia and Herzegovina. For BiH citizens who died of non-infectious causes and were not previously buried it is issued without consent from BiH authorities.
Where to apply in Australia
Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 5 Beale Crescent, Deakin (Canberra, ACT), for all of Australia (also New Zealand and several Pacific states). Documents are lodged with the embassy, mostly by post.
The Sydney (NSW) consulate's own site (bihconsulatesydney.com) lists no consular services and refers applicants to the embassy's consular pages; all applications go to Canberra.
Contact details for every office are on the page of the embassy and consulates of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
How to apply
Post the full document set with a money order to the embassy
Documents you need
- Remains transfer request forms signed before a JP
- Apostilled death certificate with certified translation
- Embalming certificate
- Medical certificate (non-infectious cause)
- Permit to transfer the body out of Australia
- Coffin certificate
- Proof of grave plot in BiH
- Certified copy of BiH passport or other citizenship proof
- Money order
Fees and processing time
- Official fee: AUD 50
- Other charges: express postage AUD 10 (AUD 60 total)
Good to know
Page in Bosnian with no date shown; processing time not stated.
Official sources
Check before you apply
This page summarises information published by Bosnia and Herzegovina's official channels, last checked on 24 octubre 2026. Fees and requirements can change at short notice, so confirm with the office that will handle your case.
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More services of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Australia
- Birth registration of a child
- Certificate of length of stay abroad
- Certification of a photocopy
- Certification of power of attorney, statement or inheritance statement
- Certification without valid BiH documents (apostille route)
- Death registration
- Determining a personal identification number (JMB)
- Extracts from civil registry books
- Late entry in BiH civil registers
- Marriage registration
- Passport issuance
- Proof of life certificate for pensioners
- Recording a JMB
- Renunciation of BiH citizenship
- Reporting a lost or stolen travel document
- Temporary travel document (putni list)
- Visa for Bosnia and Herzegovina (B, C, D)