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The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) provides lists of English-speaking lawyers abroad to help British nationals find the legal support they need.
Find the address, contact details and opening times of the UK visa application centre for your country.
The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is a British public service broadcaster. Its main responsibility is to provide impartial public service broadcasting in the UK, Channel Islands and Isle of Man. BBC is a public corporation of the Department for Culture,...
VisitBritain (VB) is the national tourism agency, responsible for marketing Britain worldwide and developing Britain’s visitor economy. It works with UK Trade & Investment as well as airlines, travel operators, global brands and the official tourism bodies for London, England,...
Apply for a higher education course, track your application and accept or reject your offers.
A summary of recent letters and notifications sent to healthcare professionals about medicines and medical devices.
Find registered patents, patent applications and pending patents
This playbook explains how we use social media at GDS. In it, we share our best practice, what we've learned and what we're planning to do.
The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is the official UK government body responsible for intellectual property (IP) rights including patents, designs, trade marks and copyright. IPO is an executive agency, sponsored by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology , supported...
Check how much your visa application costs in the country you’re in
How investigators and sponsors should manage clinical trials during COVID-19
Find out about changes to the deemed domicile rules for Income Tax and Capital Gains Tax from 6 April 2017.
Make sure that domains that do not send email cannot be used for spoofing.
The process of taking or giving evidence from abroad for UK court cases and rules on which countries allow it.
The Intellectual Property Office offers different methods of accelerating the processing of your patent application.
Look up a trade mark to see if something identical or similar to your brand is already registered.
Order birth, adoption, marriage, civil partnership and death certificates from the General Register Office (GRO) - find GRO index numbers
Protocols and procedures for testing the distinctiveness, uniformity and stability (DUS) of certain agricultural and vegetable plants.
Guidance on how to prove someone’s identity or give them access to your service or organisation.
Monitor the progress of a patent application through search reports, open to the public inspection files, and caveats.
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