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You’ll need a work permit to work in most EU countries if you’re a UK…
You may be eligible to use a European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) or UK…
If you are sent to work abroad temporarily, your employer must follow some…
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Find out how to work out and make PAYE deductions for employees who come to work in the UK.
Guidance for prospective international applicants for health and social care jobs in the UK.
PAYE if your employees work abroad, including applying for exemption in the other country.
Find out if you need to pay National Insurance in the UK or in the country you are visiting when you work abroad.
Apply to find out if your employee needs to continue paying UK National Insurance contributions while they work temporarily in the EU, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland or Liechtenstein.
Check what you need to do to employ teachers who are non-UK citizens.
Find out about the special tax rules that give extra tax relief for travel by some employees who work abroad, or come from abroad to work in the UK.
Guidance for employers. You need to have a sponsor licence to hire workers from outside the UK.
Travel grants for students including medical and dental students - travel costs, Erasmus placements, how to apply, eligibility, travel expenses forms.
This page explains how to find out about current FCDO civil service vacancies, recruitment policies, work experience, apprenticeships and internship schemes.
Paying tax as a student - term-time jobs, holiday jobs, overseas students, jobs abroad, overpaying tax.
Find out what you'll need to do when planning education and work placements abroad.
Apply for a Skilled Worker visa (formerly a Tier 2 General work visa) if you’ve been offered a skilled job with a UK employer - eligibility, fees, documents, extend, switch or update, bring your partner and children, taking on additional...
Apply for an Overseas Domestic Worker visa if you've worked for your employer for at least a year - eligibility, fees, knowledge of English, your employment rights
Find out about the additional expenses rules for employees engaged on international work.
Paying tax if you come back to the UK after living abroad - tax status, temporary residence, tax if you return to the UK within 5 years, tax returns, National Insurance
Ask HMRC to confirm that you, or if you’re an employer, your employee pays only UK National Insurance contributions whilst working temporarily in an EU country, Gibraltar, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland.
Additional documentation for candidates applying for jobs on the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office’s (FCDO) Overseas Recruitment Board.
Benefits you can claim if you go abroad and countries with social security arrangements with the UK
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