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Plan your trip

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  • Foreign travel advice
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  • Driving abroad
  • Drive abroad: step by step
  • Get permission to take a child abroad
  • Taking a vehicle out of the UK
  • Getting married abroad

Enter and leave countries

  • Hand luggage restrictions at UK airports
  • Travelling with medicine containing a controlled drug
  • Your rights at the airport
  • Take cash in and out of the UK
  • Global Entry: apply for faster entry to the USA

While you're abroad

  • Claiming benefits if you live, move or travel abroad
  • Get your document legalised
  • Register a birth abroad
  • Help if you're arrested abroad
  • Get help if you're a victim of crime abroad
  • Register a death

Return to the UK

  • Bringing goods into the UK
  • Bringing food, animals or plants into the UK
  • Bringing your pet dog, cat or ferret to the UK
  • Bring your pet to the UK: step by step
  • Importing vehicles into the UK
  • Options when customs seizes your things

If you're a victim of crime

  • Get help if you're a victim of crime abroad
  • Compensation if you're a victim of crime abroad
  • Compensation for victims of terrorist attacks abroad
  • Forced marriage
  • Female genital mutilation: help and advice

Detailed guidance

  • Help for British nationals overseas
  • Pets

Passports, travel and living abroad

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    Includes tax, State Pension, benefits and UK government services abroad

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  • Travel abroad

    Includes the latest travel advice by country, your rights at the airport and getting help abroad

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