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What you can and cannot do when you help someone you know create a GOV.UK One Login and prove their identity.
Get help if you're applying to the EU Settlement Scheme.
What you need to know about being part of the Taking Part survey.
Portland is a prison and young offender institution (YOI) on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, for men aged 18 and over.
Form to find out if someone has a guardian acting for them
Guidance for completing forms ID1: Certificate of identity for a private individual, and ID2: Certificate of identity for a body corporate.
How to register an overseas entity and its beneficial owners or managing officers, so it can buy, sell or transfer property or land in the UK.
Find out how to register a death in the UK or abroad
If you were adopted you can access your birth records or get on the Adoption Contact Register to find birth relatives - how to apply, forms and information for birth relatives
Guidance for people who have been diagnosed with a mpox infection and who have been advised to self-isolate at home.
Guidance for people with symptoms of a respiratory infection including COVID-19, or a positive test result for COVID-19.
How to identify and record the people who own or control your company.
Immigration staff guidance on UK Visas and Immigration's powers to search people and seize items.
FCDO travel advice for USA. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
Use this form to search for a ‘grant of representation’ (known as ‘probate’) or a will for someone who died in England and Wales in or after 1858.
Local authorities, police and NHS staff can find out about the information we have on our registers in England and Wales and how to ask for it.
How to access the historical censuses from 1841 to 1921.
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