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This guidance explains who the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) can help outside the UK.
Find English-speaking lawyers, doctors and medical providers, interpreters and translators, and funeral directors overseas.
Actions taken by the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) to enforce financial sanctions.
How to identify and report harmful trade practices that affect your business when exporting, importing or operating domestically.
It is your responsibility to make sure you can access enough money to pay for all your costs and to avoid getting into financial difficulties abroad.
FCDO travel advice for Venezuela. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
FCDO travel advice for Poland. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
FCDO travel advice for Madagascar. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
FCDO travel advice for the Philippines. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
FCDO travel advice for Canada. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
This page provides disclaimer information for the guidance that the FCDO provides for British people who are or are planning to travel or live abroad.
Advice for British nationals on staying safe when travelling by sea
The Secret Intelligence Service, often known as MI6, collects Britain’s foreign intelligence. It provides the government with a global covert capability to promote and defend the national security and economic well-being of the country. SIS works with the Foreign, Commonwealth...
Information about the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) National Statistics release: Statistics on International Development.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has closed. It’s been replaced by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). FCDO guidance, services and information These services are now provided by FCDO: foreign travel advice consular help and services abroad document...
Information for British citizens moving to or living in the Philippines, including guidance on residency, healthcare, civil registration and more.
This series brings together Foreign, Commonwealth & Development geographical data documents.
FCDO travel advice for Iran. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
FCDO travel advice for Mali. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
Exceptional Assistance Measures (EAM) provide additional practical support to British nationals affected by terrorist attacks overseas, and their families
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