Moving, living or retiring abroad
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What to consider when moving, living, or retiring abroad - including visas, healthcare, tax and pensions.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 10
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Governance & assurance
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
What to consider when moving, living, or retiring abroad - including visas, healthcare, tax and pensions. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Getting help with moving or living abroad
- Help from your destination country
- Country-specific information from the UK government
- More help and information from the UK government
- Telling the UK authorities
- Visas, residency and citizenship
- Police records and certificates
- Permanent residency and citizenship
- Dual citizenship
- Help with visa, residency and citizenship applications
- Passports and travel
- Dual citizens travelling to the UK
- Healthcare abroad
- Medicine
- Mental health
- Working abroad
Source and licence
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
AttributionForeign, Commonwealth & Development Office, ‘Moving, living or retiring abroad’ (updated 12 January 2026), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.017/09/2026