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FCDO travel advice for El Salvador. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
Border Force have made the highest number of illegal drug seizures since records began, as action at the border helps stop illegal drugs reaching the country.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
FCDO travel advice for Ecuador. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
FCDO travel advice for Venezuela. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
The act will ensure that law enforcement and intelligence agencies have the powers they need to help keep the country safe from the threat posed by terrorism and hostile state activity.
We are consulting on new regulations to protect border security during strike action.
Independent review of Border Force by Alexander Downer, commissioned by The Rt Hon Priti Patel MP, Secretary of State for the Home Department.
FCDO travel advice for Mexico. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
Millions are being invited to switch from physical immigration documents to an eVisa – a key step in creating a modernised and digital border.
Today (30 April 2024), the Government is strengthening its trade border to better detect pests and diseases from imported products.
Apply for the Registered Traveller service to get through UK border control faster and without filling in a landing card
Apply for a transit visa if you stop at a UK airport on your way to another destination - types of visas, cost, documents, how to apply
Find out how to complain about Border Force and how we deal with complaints.
UK Visas and Immigration's response to the Independent Chief Inspector's report on border control in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
Ambassador Cowell expressed his condolences for the death of a LAF soldier in Lebanon and called for restoring calm on the Blue Line.
Find an approved UK border control post (BCP) to check the animals, animal products or high-risk food and feed of non-animal origin (HRFNAO) in your consignment.
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