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You may need a visa to come to the UK to visit, study or work.
Guidance on how to license electronic cigarettes and other inhaled nicotine-containing products (NCPs) as medicines in the UK.
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.
Check the regulations on aircraft parts imported with a certificate of airworthiness.
Using metadata to make it easier to catalogue, validate, reuse and share your data.
Apply for an Academic Technology Approval Scheme (ATAS) certificate, to study certain subjects in the UK.
Get endorsement for the Global Talent visa to work in the UK as a researcher or academic leader - fellowship, UKRI endorsement, peer review.
Find the address, contact details and opening times of the UK visa application centre for your country.
Make sure that domains that do not send email cannot be used for spoofing.
The Intellectual Property Office offers different methods of accelerating the processing of your patent application.
Check how much your visa application costs in the country you’re in
Apply to study English language in the UK with a Short-term study visa. Check fees, eligibility, documents you need and how to apply.
Use this form to file a translation in connection with a European patent or a European patent application
Order birth, adoption, marriage, civil partnership and death certificates from the General Register Office (GRO) - find GRO index numbers
Student visa - check which courses you can study, prepare supporting documents, apply, what happens at the UK border
An overview of the process including submitting or fast tracking an application, naming your medicine and paying fees.
Listing of countries with a known occurrence of high consequence infectious disease (HCID).
You must tell DVLA if you have a brain abscess, cyst or encephalitis - download the correct form to let them know
The National Archives is the official archive and publisher for the UK government and for England and Wales. It is the guardian of some of our most iconic national documents, dating back over 1,000 years. The National Archives is a...
Protocols and procedures for testing the distinctiveness, uniformity and stability (DUS) of certain agricultural and vegetable plants.
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