Guidance

Financial sanctions licensing

Additional guidance for matters relating to UK financial sanctions licensing. Note: This guidance is supplemental to general and other specific guidance

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This guidance is supplemental to OFSI’s general guidance and other regime, thematic or sectoral specific guidance. Please visit our guidance pages to access these.

This page contains additional guidance in relation to UK financial sanctions licensing, covering:

  • Licensing principles
  • Delegation frameworks
  • Personal staff payments licensing guidance
  • Travel licensing guidance

Updates to this page

Published 27 February 2024
Last updated 18 March 2025 show all updates
  1. Link added for signing up to the new joint UK sanctions email alert service, provided by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) and the Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation (OTSI).

  2. Licensing Delegation Frameworks updated

  3. OFSI has published OFSI Personal Staff Payments Licensing Guidance, and upgraded OFSI Travel Licensing Guidance to the new digital guidance format.

  4. OFSI Travel Guidance added to the licensing guidance page

  5. First published.

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