UK help and services in South Africa
Emergency help for British nationals
- The British Consulate-General in Cape Town
- The British High Commission Pretoria
- Compensation if you’re a victim of crime abroad
- Get help if you’re a victim of crime abroad
- Help if you’re arrested abroad
- What to do if you’re affected by a crisis overseas
- Cancel a lost or stolen passport
- Get an emergency travel document
- Overseas British passport applications
Here are some of the more popular Gov links for easy reference, which refer to immigration, employment, driving, education and healthcare, more in-depth information regarding these areas can be found on the SA2UK website.
Helpful and popular links For Immigration
- UK Ancestry visa
- Check if you need a UK visa
- Visit the UK as a Standard Visitor
- Skilled Worker visa
- Innovator visa
- International Sportsperson visa
- Student visa
- Start-up visa
- British citizenship: automatic acquisition
- Representative of an Overseas Business visa
- Apply as an adult coming to be cared for by a relative
- Check if you can get indefinite leave to remain
- Apply for citizenship if you have indefinite leave to remain or ‘settled status’
- Prove you have right of abode in the UK
- Check if you can become a British citizen
- Types of British nationality
- Dual citizenship
- Prove your English language abilities with a secure English language test (SELT)
- Citizenship ceremonies
- Use this service to apply for, renew, replace or update your passport and pay for it online.
South African passports and documents
- Guidelines for applying for a new Adult Passport and for booking an appointment to submit the application
- Adult passport
- Child Passport
- Application Forms and Information
- Emergency Travel Document
- Determination of South African citizenship
- Renunciation
- Lost passport declaration
- Third Party Collection of Passports
- Consent to issue passport to a minor
- Retention of South African Citizenship
Order a birth, death, marriage or civil partnership certificate
- Birth certificate
- Marriage certificate
- Death certificate
- Civil partnership certificate
Employment
- Health and Care Worker visa
- Skilled Worker visa
- Intra-company visas
- Minister of Religion visa
- Innovator visa
- Employment contracts
- Set up as a sole trader
- Self Assessment tax returns
- File your Self Assessment tax return online
- Estimate your Income Tax for the current year
- National Insurance: introduction
- Apply for a National Insurance number
- Find a lost National Insurance number
- National Insurance Introduction
- Statutory Sick Pay (SSP)
- Maternity pay and leave
- Paternity pay and leave
- Time off for family and dependants
- Tax codes
- What your tax code means
- What the letters mean
- Emergency tax codes
- Income Tax rates and Personal Allowances
- Understanding your employees’ tax codes
- P45 and P60
- protection against unfair dismissal
- Redundancy: your rights
- Check if you need to tell someone about your criminal record
- Recruitment and Job Search
Earn extra income
Recruitment agencies
- Indeed
- Reed
- Glassdoor
- Gov UK job search
- Jobserve
- Adecco
- Monster
- Randstad
- Jac recruitment
- CV-Library
- Social care jobs
- Teaching jobs
- Army jobs
- Police jobs
- NHS jobs
- Hays
- Trac jobs
- Michael Page
- Recruit UK
- Benjamin Edwards
- Robert Walters
- Love Recruitment
- Robert Half
- HRGO
- Aldi Recruitment
- Amazon Jobs
- Lidl careers
- Sainsbury
- Morrisons Supermarkets
- Argos Careers
Driving
- Driving in Great Britain on a non-GB licence
- The Highway Code
- Driving in Great Britain on a non-GB licence
- Exchange a foreign driving licence
- Buy a vehicle: step by step
- Check if a vehicle is taxed
- Tax your vehicle
- Check the MOT status of a vehicle
- Check the MOT history of a vehicle
- Legal obligations of drivers and riders
- When you need to make a SORN
- Vehicles exempt from vehicle tax
- Tell DVLA you’ve changed address: step by step
- Driving fines and letters when you do not own the vehicle
- Get a clamped or impounded vehicle released
- What to do if your vehicle has been stolen
- Contact DVLA about tax
- Contact DVSA about MOTs
Education
- Schools: statutory guidance
- The national curriculum
- Find a nursery school place
- Find and compare schools in England
- Apply for a primary school place
- Apply for a secondary school place
- Educating your child at home
- Home education: get information from your council
- Children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
- Find before and after school and holiday clubs
- Find a registered childminder
- Apply for school transport for a child with special educational needs and disabilities
- Contact the Department for Education (DfE)
- Find an Ofsted inspection report
- Find safe walking or cycling routes to your child’s school
- Free school transport
- Subsidised transport for 16 to 19 year olds in education
- Apply for free school meals
- Bullying at school
- School discipline and exclusions
- Find learning activities for your child
- Find a job in teaching
- Health and safety for school children
- Illness and your child’s education
- School term and holiday dates
- School uniform
- School meals – healthy eating standards
- School leaving age
Healthcare
- How to register with a GP surgery
- How to find an NHS dentist
- There are 4 bands of charges for all NHS dental treatments.
- Healthcare UK
- Get a prescription prepayment certificate
- Advice and support for carers and the people they care for
- Access to Work: get support if you have a disability or health condition
- Pregnancy and birth
- Maternity pay and leave
- Paternity pay and leave
- Maternity Allowance
- Disability rights
- Hearing loss
- Advice and support for carers and the people they care for
