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Visit the UK

Find the right visit visa

• Choose a UK visit or short stay visa
• Visit the UK for a holiday or to see family or friends
• Visit the UK on a business trip
• Visit the UK to do research
• Visit the UK for private medical treatment
• Come to the UK to get married
• Apply for a visa to travel through the UK: step by step
• Visiting the UK: information for EU, EEA and Swiss citizens

Types of visit visa

• Standard Visitor visa
• Marriage Visitor visa
• Permitted Paid Engagement visa
• Parent of a Tier 4 child visa
• Visit the UK in a Chinese tour group
• Visa to pass through the UK in transit

Detailed guidance

• Visas and immigration operational 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