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The process when a British national dies in the US, including registering the death, funerals and cremations, and bringing the person’s body to the UK.
Find out about the help you can get in the UK and abroad, including from victim support and the local British embassy or consulate.
How to make a summary decision on court costs in a fast track case or after a short hearing lasting up to a day.
A guide to help staff learn how to support customers to use the services the Office of the Public Guardian provides.
What to do first if you're acting for someone under a lasting power of attorney for financial decisions.
List of UK-based funeral directors for British nationals when someone dies abroad.
How to manage a bank or building society account for someone else.
This guidance explains how to fix an inconsistency relating to your name, as a UK national in Italy, so you can prove your identity to access local services.
Find contact details of court-approved professionals working as panel deputies in the Midlands.
Use the online form to send the evidence that HMRC has asked for, to support your Tax Free Childcare or Free Childcare for Working Parents application.
Find out how OPG contacts customers and what to do if you are worried a call, email or message is not genuine.
How the death certification process in England and Wales will change from 9 September 2024, including the introduction of medical examiners.
Many UK-based organisations can offer assistance, support and information to those affected by a death abroad.
Find contact details of court-approved professionals working as panel deputies in the north east of England.
This guide gives advice about the death of a British person in The Gambia, including information on burial, cremation and repatriation.
Find out about local procedures, burials and cremations, and returning the body to the UK
The process when a British national dies in Poland, including registering the death, funerals and cremations, and bringing the person’s body to the UK.
The UK government's offices in India no longer issue ‘No Objection Certificate’ for marriage registrations to British nationals.
This guide gives advice about the death of a British person in Nigeria, including information on burial, cremation and repatriation.
How to meet your consumer law obligations as an unregulated provider of will writing, online divorce and pre-paid probate services.
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