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Find the address, contact details and opening times of the UK visa application centre for your country.
Check how much your visa application costs in the country you’re in
Apply for a Secondment Worker visa to work for a UK organisation as part of a high-value contract - eligibility, fees, documents, extend, switch or update, bring your partner and children.
How to apply for or renew a Double Taxation Treaty Passport and how to tell HMRC about passported loans, for overseas lenders and UK borrowers.
Find out if you need an Academic Technology Approval Scheme (ATAS) certificate to study in the UK.
The Intellectual Property Office offers different methods of accelerating the processing of your patent application.
Make sure that domains that do not send email cannot be used for spoofing.
Information on using the app when applying to work, study or live in the UK.
Use this form to file a translation in connection with a European patent or a European patent application
Information on UK sanctions currently in place and how to apply for the appropriate licences.
Use supplementary pages SA109 to record your residence and domicile status on your SA100 Tax Return.
Order birth, adoption, marriage, civil partnership and death certificates from the General Register Office (GRO) - find GRO index numbers
Listing of countries with a known occurrence of high consequence infectious disease (HCID).
Visit the UK as a Standard Visitor for tourism, business, study (courses up to 6 months), medical treatment and other activities. Find out whether you need a Standard Visitor visa, or can visit without a visa.
Information on carrying medicine containing controlled drugs for individual travellers entering or leaving the UK.
Look up a trade mark to see if something identical or similar to your brand is already registered.
Find out about trade agreements that can be used now.
Check what you need to do to employ teachers who are non-UK citizens.
Find schemes that have told HMRC they meet the conditions to be a recognised overseas pension scheme (ROPS).
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