Travelling to the UK

Entering the UK

Your identity document (for example your passport or identity card) will be checked when you arrive at a UK port or airport to make sure you’re allowed to come into the country. It should be valid for the whole of your stay.

Moving personal belongings to the UK

  • You might need to pay tax and customs duty when you move your personal belongings to the UK from abroad.

You must follow the rules on:

Options when customs seizes your things

  • Customs will destroy or sell anything it seizes from you for breaking the rules on bringingor receiving goods from abroad, unless you:

Registered Traveller faster entry through the UK border

Take cash in and out of the UK

  • aking cash in and out of Great Britain

You must declare cash of £10,000 or more to UK customs if you’re carrying it between Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and a country outside the UK.

If you’re travelling as a family or group with more than £10,000 in total (even if individuals are carrying less than that) you still need to make a declaration.

Tax on foreign income

  • You may need to pay UK Income Taxon your foreign income, such as:
  • wages if you work abroad
  • foreign investment income, for example dividends and savings interest
  • rental income on overseas property
  • income from pensions held overseas