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How to apply for a full or partial completion certificate after building work on a higher-risk building has been completed.

• Updated: 27 March 2025

Follow our steps to get your first payment if you're applying late for student finance.

• Updated: 12 August 2025

Apply as a child to join or stay with a close relative in the UK who has protection status - eligibility, fees, documents, applying for settlement.

• Overview

  You may be able to apply to join or stay with a close relative in the UK…

• Eligibility

  To be eligible to apply to join or stay with a close relative in the UK…

• How much it costs

  How much it costs to apply depends on whether you’re applying from outside…

• Documents you'll need to apply

  You’ll need to provide documents or other evidence to prove: your identity…

• Apply

  Apply from outside the UK Apply online to join a close relative if you’re…

• After you apply

  If you applied from outside the UK You’ll get an email with a decision on…

Guidance for applicants outside the UK. It explains the steps to applying for and being granted a visa to live in the UK.

• Updated: 25 February 2026

A patent registers your invention and lets you take legal action against anyone who makes, uses, sells or imports your invention without your permission.

How to apply to the Capture Redress Scheme on behalf of a postmaster who cannot apply for themselves.

• Updated: 26 February 2026

Million Hours Fund application guidance.

• Updated: 17 September 2025

Apply for a Global Talent visa to work in the arts, sciences or digital technology once you have been endorsed as a leader or potential leader.

Compare visas to visit, work, study or join a family member already in the UK. How to apply and what the decision on your application means.

Apply for indefinite leave to remain on the basis of your private life - fees, who's eligible, how to apply.