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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

• Overview

  A High Potential Individual (HPI) visa gives you permission to stay in the…

• Eligibility

  To be eligible for a High Potential Individual (HPI) visa, you must have…

• Knowledge of English

  You’ll usually need to prove your knowledge of the English language when…

• How much it costs

  When you apply for a High Potential Individual (HPI) visa, you’ll need to…

• Documents you'll need to apply

  Before you apply, you must pay for Ecctis to check your qualification is…

• Apply from outside the UK

  You must apply online for a High Potential Individual (HPI) visa. Check…

• Your partner and children

  Your partner and children can also apply to join you or stay in the UK as…

• Switch to this visa

  You might be able to apply to change (‘switch’) to a High Potential…

Find out if you need to declare income from selling personal possessions, goods or services online, creating online content or renting out property using digital platforms.

• Updated: 13 February 2025

Making someone bankrupt is one way to recover money owed to you – bankruptcy petition fees and download a guide to creditor bankruptcy petitions

• Overview

  You have to present a bankruptcy petition to a court if you want to…

• Prove you're owed £5,000 or more

  To make someone bankrupt you must be owed one of the following: at least…

• Check for other bankruptcy petitions

  You must check if the debtor has had any bankruptcy petitions against them…

• Apply

  The bankruptcy petition form you fill in depends on whether: the debtor…

• Updated: 26 November 2025

Defend a claim for a specified amount of money if you dispute it or make a counterclaim for money you think the claimant owes you.

Visiting a prisoner: visiting times, keeping in touch by email, telephone or letter, banned items and sending money to a prisoner by debit card or online bank transfer

Acting as an attorney - duties, including finding an enduring power of attorney, registering an EPA, starting to act, making gifts and stopping being an attorney

How to work out splitting up money, property and possessions when you divorce or dissolve a civil partnership - including mediation.

Types of ISA available, the tax-free ISA allowance, withdrawing money and transferring ISAs.

Alternatives to bankruptcy and the different types of agreements you can make with your creditors.