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Check if you need a visa or permit to work in France and how to get one if you do.
Check if you're automatically a British citizen - it depends on where and when you were born and your parents' immigration status.
An overview of the process by which bills become law.
Employer guide to Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) and Leave - rates, eligibility, notice period, form SMP1, recover statutory pay
Use this form to correct a director's date of birth if it was incorrectly stated when the company was incorporated.
Apply for a High Potential Individual (HPI) visa if you've been awarded a qualification by an eligible university in the last 5 years - eligibility, fees, documents, switch, bring your partner and children
Apply for a UK Ancestry visa if you're a Commonwealth citizen and can prove that one of your grandparents was born in the UK - eligibility, fees, documents, how to apply, how long it takes and how to settle
Parents must register the birth in the country where the child was born - find out if you can also register the birth in the UK.
This page outlines the process to regularise a child from Ukraine’s immigration status in the UK through the Ukraine Extension Scheme.
Application form to order a birth certificate for a birth that was registered overseas.
Apply for a British National (Overseas) visa (known as a BNO visa) to live, work and study in the UK if you or a family member are from Hong Kong and registered as a British national (overseas).
The Ukraine Family Scheme closed at 3pm on 19 February 2024. You can no longer apply under this scheme.
Form GRO 185 to apply to re-register a child's birth and add the natural father's details.
If you're a sperm donor, you could be the legal parent of any child that is born
Apply for a Temporary Work – Government Authorised Exchange (GAE) visa for work experience, training, research or fellowship - eligibility, extend or switch, family members
Rules employers must follow when making staff redundant - consultations, notice periods, compulsory and non-compulsory redundancy and redundancy pay
Information and service documents on the national DBS testing service offered by PHE to improve uptake of 12 month testing of infants born to hepatitis B infected mothers.
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