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Check how quickly you’ll receive a decision on your UK visa application if you are applying from outside the UK.
Apply for changes to your marketing authorisation, including minor variations type IA and IB, major variations type II and extensions.
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.
Find the address, contact details and opening times of the UK visa application centre for your country.
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
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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.
Find out if you need an Academic Technology Approval Scheme (ATAS) certificate to study in the UK.
Make sure that domains that do not send email cannot be used for spoofing.
Order birth, adoption, marriage, civil partnership and death certificates from the General Register Office (GRO) - find GRO index numbers
Find out about the changes if you are exporting personal protective equipment (PPE) during the coronavirus pandemic.
Find out about changes to the remittance basis rules from 6 April 2017.
Information on carrying medicine containing controlled drugs for individual travellers entering or leaving the UK.
Apply for a Temporary Work - Religious Worker visa to do religious work in the UK - getting sponsored, fees, eligibility, family members
Use supplementary pages SA109 to record your residence and domicile status on your SA100 Tax Return.
Apply for a Global Talent visa to work in the arts, sciences or digital technology once you have been endorsed as a leader or potential leader.
Use this form to file a translation in connection with a European patent or a European patent application
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