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Check if you're automatically a British citizen - it depends on where and when you were born and your parents' immigration status.
Apply for a higher education course, track your application and accept or reject your offers.
Apply for a Senior or Specialist Worker visa to work for your employer’s UK branch - eligibility, fees, documents, extend, switch or update, bring your partner and children.
A checklist from the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office to help British people prepare for travelling and staying safe abroad.
List of fees for consular information in the USA.
Guidance for people with symptoms of a respiratory infection including COVID-19, or a positive test result for COVID-19.
Find registered patents, patent applications and pending patents
You may need a visa to come to the UK to visit, study or work.
How to apply for British citizenship if you're stateless - who's eligible, fees and where to send your application
Getting a faster decision on a visa or settlement application; priority service, super priority service; waiting times; how to check if you're eligible
Find out if you need to declare goods you bring into or take out of the UK and how to make the declarations.
Apply for changes to your marketing authorisation, including minor variations type IA and IB, major variations type II and extensions.
Having right of abode means you're allowed to live or work in the UK without any immigration restrictions - apply for a certificate of entitlement to prove you have it.
Check the regulations on aircraft parts imported with a certificate of airworthiness.
Use these forms if you import, export, or move goods through the UK.
Check someone's driving record - vehicles they can drive, penalty points and disqualifications
Check how much your visa application costs in the country you’re in
Find out which birds and animals may be spared from culling during an outbreak of an exotic animal disease.
Find out if you need an Academic Technology Approval Scheme (ATAS) certificate to study in the UK.
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