Browse GOV.UK
Live permanently in the UK
Find the right settlement option
Other types of settlement
- Apply to the EU Settlement Scheme (settled and pre-settled status)
- Prove you have right of abode in the UK
- Apply to settle in the UK if your partner dies
- Settlement: refugee or humanitarian protection
- Apply to stay in the UK as a stateless person
- Apply for settlement if you're a Turkish Worker or Businessperson
- Apply for a UK residence card
- Apply for a Returning Resident visa
- Apply for a derivative residence card
Become a British citizen
- Check if you can become a British citizen
- Prove your knowledge of English for citizenship and settling
- Life in the UK Test
Detailed guidance
Visas and immigration
-
What you need to do
Check if you need a UK visa, apply, manage your application, biometric residence permits
-
EU, EEA and Commonwealth citizens
Settled and pre-settled status for EU citizens, EEA family permits, UK Ancestry visa
-
Visit the UK
Visit for a holiday, business or a short stay (up to 6 months), airport transit visas
-
Study in the UK
Short-term study visas and visas for longer courses, degrees and independent schools
-
Work in the UK
Paid and voluntary work, entrepreneur and investor visas
-
Family in the UK
Partner, spouse and family member visas and permits
-
Live permanently in the UK
Ways to settle in the UK and routes to British citizenship
-
Seek protection or asylum
Claiming asylum as a refugee, the asylum process and support
-
Immigration appeals and status problems
Appeal against a visa, settlement or asylum decision, immigration status problems
-
Travelling to the UK
Moving your belongings, going through customs and tax
All categories
- Benefits
- Births, deaths, marriages and care
- Business and self-employed
- Childcare and parenting
- Citizenship and living in the UK
- Crime, justice and the law
- Disabled people
- Driving and transport
- Education and learning
- Employing people
- Environment and countryside
- Housing and local services
- Money and tax
- Passports, travel and living abroad
- Visas and immigration
- Working, jobs and pensions