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If you want to claim Universal Credit you must verify your identity. This guide for claimants and people supporting them explains how to do that.
Find out about applying for the Spirit Drinks Verification Scheme, how to submit brand information, fees and making sure your production process is compliant.
Good Practice Guide (GPG) 45 helps you decide how to check someone's identity.
This guidance outlines the requirements for claiming preferential tariffs under the Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS).
Weights and Measures Act 1985 and subsequent Deregulation Order 1999 (as amended).
We’re working to help people securely prove who they are without having to rely on physical documents.
Find out about the verification checks and what to expect during a visit if you have applied for verification and paid your fee for the Scheme.
Find out how to submit brand details to HMRC for Scotch Whisky, Irish Whiskey, Irish Cream, Irish Poteen, Somerset Cider Brandy and Single Malt Welsh Whisky if you're a verified bottler.
Check the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office created an Apostille - verify a legalised document
Documents, certificate, letters, and notes available from the British embassy and consulates in the USA.
How to record and report fluorinated gas (F gas) you produce, import, export or destroy in Great Britain.
Find out how to apply for verification and what happens if you do not.
Guidance for completing form ID3: certificate of identity for a private individual.
How to register an overseas entity and its beneficial owners or managing officers, so it can buy, sell or transfer property or land in the UK.
A wholesale dealer in Great Britain may import Qualified Person certified medicines from the European Economic Area if certain checks are made by the ‘Responsible Person (import)’
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