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Information for British citizens moving to or living in China, including guidance on residency, healthcare and travel.
Apply for a higher education course, track your application and accept or reject your offers.
Apply to give up (renounce) your British citizenship or status - ‘declaration of renunciation’
Driving licence exchange and rules for drivers living in the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland.
Details of General Licences issued by OFSI
A checklist from the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office to help British people prepare for travelling and staying safe abroad.
Apply for a UK Ancestry visa if you're a Commonwealth citizen and can prove that one of your grandparents was born in the UK - eligibility, fees, documents, how to apply, how long it takes and how to settle
How to access the essential information you need when travelling to or living in Hong Kong as a British National.
List of fees for consular information in the USA.
Apply for changes to your marketing authorisation, including minor variations type IA and IB, major variations type II and extensions.
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.
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.
Information for British citizens moving to or living in Japan, including guidance on residency, healthcare and driving.
Records and paperwork you must keep if you’re a passenger plane operator.
The Intellectual Property Office offers different methods of accelerating the processing of your patent application.
How to check if your criminal record will affect your licence application, and the information you need to provide for our criminality checks.
Find out about changes to the deemed domicile rules for Income Tax and Capital Gains Tax from 6 April 2017.
Listing of countries with a known occurrence of high consequence infectious disease (HCID).
Check how much your visa application costs in the country you’re in
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