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Use this form to request a search on a patent application.
When and how you can ask for the decision on your visa or immigration application to be reviewed if you're in the UK
Apply to set up an arrangement with your employer to be kept informed and to be consulted
Make, or respond to, an application under Regulation 13(1) of the Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004.
Find out how to ask for access to personal data that HMRC holds about you, or someone who has died.
Service Request Form for legalisation and notarial services
Ask HM Land Registry to fast track your application.
Responding to a data protection request - what you need to provide and what happens if you do not provide the information.
Request details about a vehicle's registered keeper: bulk data, anonymised data, mileage data requests, other information requests
Information about patent opinion requests we have received from 2014 onwards.
How to get scientific advice about your licence application from MHRA, including: submitting a request, your meeting with MHRA, fees.
Form to request to make a phone call in prison
Information for competent authorities abroad (and in the UK) about obtaining evidence within the UK (or abroad) to assist in criminal investigations or proceedings.
You have the right to get a copy of the information that is held about you. This is called the 'right of access'.
Find out how to make a subject access request to see information held about you. You can also make a request for someone else.
A number of organisations are setting up, or already established, through the Right to Request scheme.
Use this form to request to extend a prescribed time limit.
If a tenant is having difficulty paying their rent, apply for a Managed Payment to Landlord using the Apply for a Direct Rent Payment service to request payment of rent from a tenant’s Universal Credit.
Vessels owners, agents or skippers should use this subject access request form to request VMS data from the MMO.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
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