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British travellers to the US must register with the Electronic System for Travel Authorisation (ESTA) before their journey
Documents, certificate, letters, and notes available from the British embassy and consulates in the USA.
Check if you're automatically a British citizen - it depends on where and when you were born and your parents' immigration status.
If you or your parents were born in the UK, you might automatically be a…
You’re usually a British citizen automatically if you were born in the UK.…
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Create an account with the UK ID issuer for business or product IDs if you're involved in the supply of tobacco products in the UK.
Information on using the app to apply for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA) to come to the UK.
Information about the UK’s points-based immigration system for EU, EEA and Swiss citizens.
How to access the historical censuses from 1841 to 1921.
How to apply for British citizenship if you're a British overseas citizen, protected person, subject, national or overseas territories citizen - who's eligible, fees and where to send your application.
How UK nationals who plan to live in Spain for more than 3 months must register as a resident and on the padrón at their town hall.
Apply for a certificate to confirm that you only need to pay UK National Insurance contributions if you're a self-employed individual working temporarily in an EU country, Gibraltar, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland.
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.
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
Getting a UK background check so you can apply for Global Entry and get through USA border control faster: how to apply, how much it costs
UK border control - passport checks, visas for entering, customs, transiting and layovers.
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
Information to help you protect, manage and enforce your intellectual property (IP) rights in the European Union and the European Economic Area (EEA).
Apply by post to register as a British citizen if you were born before 1983 to a British mother.
Find out how to apply for a duty deferment account so you can delay paying most customs or tax charges when you import goods into Great Britain or release goods from an excise warehouse.
Use form US-Individual 2002 to apply for relief at source or to claim repayment of UK Income Tax.
Apply to give up (renounce) your British citizenship or status - ‘declaration of renunciation’
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
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