UK help and services in Belgium

Services if you're visiting, studying, working or living in Belgium. Includes information about trading with and doing business in the UK and Belgium.

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Emergency help for British nationals

Get help if you're the victim of crime, you've been arrested, or are affected by a crisis abroad.

1. Belgium – Prisoner Pack

   Explanation of the legal and prison system to British Nationals

2. British Embassy Brussels

   We maintain and develop relations between the UK and Belgium.

3. Compensation for victims of terrorist attacks abroad

   Compensation for terrorist attacks abroad - eligibility, acts of terrorism covered, application form, helpline

4. Compensation if you're a victim of crime abroad

   If you're a UK resident and have been injured because of a violent crime abroad, you can usually apply for compensation

5. Get help if you're a victim of crime abroad

   Contact the nearest British embassy, commission or consulate to get help if you're the victim of crime abroad

6. Help if you're arrested abroad

   Find out what the Foreign and Commonwealth Office can do to help if you or someone you know is arrested abroad.

7. Rape and sexual assault abroad: returning to the UK

   Information for British nationals affected by rape or sexual assault abroad and returning to the UK, including how to access medical treatment and legal advice in the UK.

8. What to do if you’re affected by a crisis overseas

   Advice for British nationals affected by crises abroad, including terrorist attacks, natural disasters and major political unrest, and information on what help the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) can provide.

Brexit

Latest information and guidance on the UK exiting the EU.

1. Exiting the European Union

   Information about the UK's departure from the European Union.

2. Settled status for EU citizens and their families

   The scheme for EU citizens and their families to remain in the UK after it leaves the EU ('Brexit'): who's eligible, how to apply, how much it costs.

3. Status of EU citizens in the UK: what you need to know

   Information for European Union citizens, and their families, about their rights in the UK.

4. UK nationals in the EU: essential information

   Information on the rights and status of UK nationals living and travelling in the European Union (EU).

Passports and emergency travel documents

Includes how to cancel a lost passport, renew a passport and apply for an emergency travel document.

1. Apply for or renew a British passport if you're visiting the UK

   You can apply for or renew a British passport while you're visiting the UK - as long as you expect to be in the UK for long enough

2. Cancel a lost or stolen passport

   What you need to do if your passport has been lost or stolen and you need to travel urgently - emergency travel document and replacement passport.

3. Get an emergency travel document

   Apply for an emergency travel document if you're outside the UK and haven't got a valid British passport - apply online, how to apply, fee, timings

4. Overseas British passport applications

   Renew, replace or apply for an adult or child British passport if you’re living abroad or working overseas - forms, prices, how long it takes

Travelling to Belgium

Includes travel advice and how to get married abroad.

1. Apply for a European Health Insurance Card

   Apply for or renew your free European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) online.

2. Belgium travel advice

   Latest travel advice for Belgium including safety and security, entry requirements, travel warnings and health

3. Getting married abroad

   Requirements, paperwork and processes for weddings and civil partnerships overseas - registration, restrictions, fees

4. Reduce your risk from terrorism while abroad

   How to minimise your risk and what to do in the event of a terrorist attack.

Coming to the UK

Get a visa to study, work or visit the UK.

1. Check if you need a UK visa

   You may need a visa to come to the UK to visit, study or work.

2. Contact UK Visas and Immigration about your application

   How to contact UK visas and immigration (UKVI) from inside and outside the UK.

3. Get your visa, immigration or citizenship documents back

   Get your documents returned if you've made a UK visa, immigration or citizenship application but need them back urgently

Living in Belgium

Includes how to access healthcare, get a document legalised, lists of lawyers and how to vote abroad.

1. Apply for a European Health Insurance Card

   Apply for or renew your free European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) online.

2. Belgium - list of medical facilities/practitioners

   List of English speaking medical facilities/practitioners in the Belgium.

3. Belgium travel advice

   Latest travel advice for Belgium including safety and security, entry requirements, travel warnings and health

4. Belgium – List of Lawyers and Translators

   Lists of English speaking lawyers and translators.

5. Get your document legalised

   Use the online service to get a UK document legalised

6. Living in Belgium

   Official information British people moving to and living in Belgium need to know, including residency, healthcare and driving.

7. Support for British nationals abroad: A guide

   This guide highlights some of the main ways you can help yourself stay safe abroad and what help the FCO can provide.

8. UK benefits if you're going or living abroad

   Find out what benefits you might be able to receive while you're abroad and how to export them from the UK or claim them while abroad

9. Voting when you’re abroad

   How to vote if you're going to be abroad temporarily on election day, and what to do if you're moving overseas long term

Tax, benefits, pensions and working abroad

Includes how to pay tax, claim State Pension and get tax credits abroad.

1. Claiming benefits if you live, move or travel abroad

   Benefits you can claim if you go abroad and countries with social security arrangements with the UK

2. Moving or retiring abroad

   What you need to know if you move or retire abroad - tax, pensions, voting and contacting your local council

3. National Insurance if you go abroad

   Contact HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to find out if you need to pay National Insurance when you work abroad

4. State Pension if you retire abroad

   How to claim State Pension if you're overseas - payment, tax, change of circumstances - contact the International Pension Centre

5. Tax credits if you leave or move to the UK

   Tax credits if you live abroad, go travelling, are a cross-border worker or subject to immigration control

6. Tax on foreign income

   Find out whether you need to pay UK tax on foreign income - residence and ‘non-dom’ status, tax returns, claiming relief if you’re taxed twice (including certificates of residence)

7. Tax on your UK income if you live abroad

   Find out whether you need to pay tax on your UK income while you're living abroad - non-resident landlord scheme, tax returns, claiming relief if you’re taxed twice, personal allowance of tax-free income, form R43

8. Work in another EU country

   UK citizens can work in any European Economic Area country and Switzerland without a work permit - where you can work, your rights, protection for posted workers and National Insurance payments

Birth, death and marriage abroad

Includes how to get married, list of funeral directors and how to register a birth abroad.

1. Belgium - List of funeral directors

   List of English speaking funeral directors in Belgium

2. Bereavement Information Pack - Belgium

   Information on deaths involving British nationals in Belgium

3. Burundi: bereavement information pack

   Information for those bereaving the death of a British National in Burundi.

4. Getting married abroad

   Requirements, paperwork and processes for weddings and civil partnerships overseas - registration, restrictions, fees

5. Register a birth abroad

   Parents must register the birth in the country where the child was born - find out if you can also register the birth in the UK

6. Surrogacy overseas

   Information for British nationals who are considering entering into surrogacy arrangements in foreign countries.

7. What to do after someone dies

   The steps you must take when someone dies - register a death, report a death with Tell Us Once, coroners, funerals and death abroad

News and events

Find out about the UK government's diplomatic, security and development work in Belgium.

1. Belgium and the UK

   Updates, news and events from the UK government in Belgium

Trade and invest

Includes investing and setting up a business in the UK and doing business in Belgium.

1. Business investment in the UK: Guidance for overseas businesses

   Guidance on why overseas companies should set up and locate their businesses in the UK. Includes information on UK business investment and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) opportunities.

2. Department for International Trade Belgium

   Department for International Trade (DIT) helps UK-based companies succeed in the global economy. We also help overseas companies bring their high-quality investment to the UK’s dynamic economy.

3. Overseas Business Risk - Belgium

   Information on key security and political risks which UK businesses may face when operating in Belgium.

4. Set up a business

   What you need to do to start a business: choose a legal structure, see if you need licences and insurance, learn about reliefs and benefits

5. UK Science & Innovation Network in Belgium

   Science and innovation underpin the economies of both Belgium and the UK. Encouraging work between the two countries therefore produces benefits for both. To promote international collaboration the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office jointly fund the UK Science and Innovation Network based in 31 countries around the world.

British embassy or high commission

Includes contact details, opening hours and consular fees and local services.

1. Belgium – Consular Fees

   Details of Consular Fees at the British Embassy in Brussels.

2. British Embassy Brussels

   We maintain and develop relations between the UK and Belgium.

3. Notarial and documentary services in Belgium

   Documents, certificates, letters and notes available at the British Embassy in Belgium.