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British Overseas citizens with a connection to the territory have right of abode. British Antarctic Territory: Special permit required [219] [220] British Indian Ocean Territory: Special permit required [221] [222] British Virgin Islands: Visa not required 1 month [223] [224] Extension of stay possible.
In 2015, the UK Consulate-General in Denver was reclassified as a UK Government Office. [6] In 2018 the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has announced that new High Commissions will open in Antigua and Barbuda , Bahamas , Grenada , Lesotho , Saint Vincent and the Grenadines , Samoa , Swaziland , Tonga and Vanuatu and a British ...
This is a list of diplomatic missions in the United Kingdom. At present, the capital city of London hosts 167 embassies and high commissions . Several other countries have ambassadors accredited to the United Kingdom, with most being resident in Brussels or Paris .
Consulate General 2021 [42] Kolkata Poland: Consulate General 1993 [43] Mumbai Czechia: Consulate General 2019 [44] Ecuador: Consulate 2019 [45] Pakistan: Consulate 1994 [46] New Delhi Albania: Embassy 2014 To be re-opened [47] [48] Benin: Embassy 2016 [49] Nicaragua: Embassy 1990 [50]
UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) is a division of the Home Office responsible for the United Kingdom's visa system. It was formed in 2013 from the section of the UK Border Agency that had administered the visa system.
The High Commission of the United Kingdom in New Delhi is the diplomatic mission of the United Kingdom in India. [1] It is located at Shantipath in Chanakyapuri.. The British High Commission in New Delhi covers consular services for Northern India, namely, Delhi and the states of Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttarakhand.
Countries belonging to the Commonwealth of Nations exchange high commissioners rather than ambassadors.Though there are a few technical differences (for instance, whereas ambassadors present their diplomatic credentials to the host country's head of state, high commissioners are accredited to the head of government), they are in practice the same office.
The heads of British diplomatic missions are persons appointed as senior diplomats to individual nations, or international organizations. They are usually appointed as ambassadors , except in member countries of the Commonwealth of Nations where a high commissioner is appointed.