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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
- Apply for a visa to travel through the UK: step by step
- Visiting the UK after Brexit
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
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What you need to do
Check if you need a UK visa, apply, manage your application, biometric residence permits
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EU, EEA and Commonwealth citizens
Settled and pre-settled status for EU citizens, EEA family permits, UK Ancestry visa
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Visit the UK
Visit for a holiday, business or a short stay (up to 6 months), airport transit visas
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Study in the UK
Short-term study visas and visas for longer courses, degrees and independent schools
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Work in the UK
Paid and voluntary work, entrepreneur and investor visas
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Family in the UK
Partner, spouse and family member visas and permits
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Live permanently in the UK
Ways to settle in the UK and routes to British citizenship
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Seek protection or asylum
Claiming asylum as a refugee, the asylum process and support
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Immigration appeals and status problems
Appeal against a visa, settlement or asylum decision, immigration status problems
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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