Legal Matters
Understand employment law, tax obligations, contract rights, and legal protections relevant to working abroad in different countries.
Bringing a New Partner from Overseas Back to the UK
If you go to work abroad and happen to meet the love of your life too, then you may want to think about bringing them with you when you return to the UK. The...
Getting Married Abroad
If you decide to get married while you are living and working abroad there are certain practical details that you need to consider. As with all manner of pap...
Obtaining The Correct Permission to Work in New Zealand
New Zealand is one of the most popular destinations for Britons who want to make a new life overseas, accounting for 7% of all emigrants from the country. Wi...
Permission to Work in Australia
Australia is the most popular destination for British emigrants. Almost a quarter of us who leave Blighty to live abroad go there, no doubt attracted by the...
Permission to Work in Canada
Canada has always been a popular destination for British migrants. What’s more, it’s a country which has always welcomed newcomers, as illustrated by the...
Permission to Work in Europe
Europeans used to have to jump through bureaucratic hoops to work in one another’s countries. But the European Union has changed all that. Working in the E...
Permission to Work in the USA
The United States has always been one of the most popular destinations for British emigrants, indeed for emigrants of all sorts. Unfortunately, the days when...
Understanding Embassy Services
British Embassies and Consulates across the world are there to offer help and support to British people in difficulty abroad. While they are able to help in...
What Happens If You Want to Extend Your Stay?
If you go and work abroad for a certain period of time and have such a wonderful experience that you do not want to come when you planned to, what do you nee...
What to Do If You Decide to Stay Permanently
Even if you start out going to work abroad for just a few months, that can easily become a year, which becomes two…and then you’ve decided to stay perman...
What to do if You're Arrested While Working Abroad
Even the most saintly of us can find ourselves involved in a criminal incident despite ourselves when, for example, a drunken scuffle flares up randomly in a...
Working Abroad Without Permission
The European Union has opened up a new world of work possibilities to every Briton. Yet, for a variety of reasons, many of us are still drawn further afield....
Working Abroad: Making a Will
When you plan to go work abroad, you should really think about making a will. Inheritance laws in foreign countries, even other European countries, can be ve...