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This guidance explains the documents you should provide to support your application to visit the UK.
What you need to know about crossing the UK border and visiting the UK.
UK Visas and Immigration list of countries designated under the visiting forces act and orders.
Planning for the risks of Arctic travel, including during cruises.
What to do if you're visiting the UK to do research - check if you’re eligible and if you need a visa, what visa to apply for, what to do before you visit.
Detention services order 04/2012 about visiting procedures for detainees.
This consultation will inform the government's proposed development of secondary legislation on visiting in care homes, hospitals and hospices.
VisitEngland (VE) is the national tourist board for England, responsible for marketing England to domestic and established overseas markets and for improving England’s tourism product. VE is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and...
Guidance on the health visiting career
Materials to advise those planning to travel abroad to visit friends and relatives.
Reclaim VAT you've paid on goods and services bought in the UK to use in your business if you’re registered as a business outside the UK.
Hewell is a men’s prison in the village of Tardebigge, near Redditch in Worcestershire.
Kirkham is a men’s open prison in the village of Kirkham, Lancashire.
Long Lartin is a high security men’s prison in Evesham, Worcestershire.
Stafford Prison is a prison in the centre of Stafford for men convicted of a sex offence.
You can come to the UK for up to 30 days as part of a tour group through the approved destination status agreement (ADS) if you're a Chinese citizen
Leeds is an adult male prison in the Armley area of Leeds, West Yorkshire.
Portland is a prison and young offender institution (YOI) on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, for men aged 18 and over.
FCDO travel advice for Equatorial Guinea. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
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