UK help and services in Spain

Services if you're visiting, studying, working or living in Spain. Includes information about trading with and doing business in the UK and Spain, and your rights after the UK’s exit from the EU.

General information and guidance

  • This guide gives advice about the death of a British person in Spain, including information on burial, cremation and repatriation.

Emergency help for British nationals in Spain

Get help if you're the victim of crime, you've been arrested, or are affected by a crisis abroad.

Passports and emergency travel documents in Spain

Includes how to cancel a lost passport, renew a passport and apply for an emergency travel document.

Travelling to Spain

Includes travel advice and how to get married abroad.

Coming to the UK from Spain

Get a visa to study, work or visit the UK.

Living in Spain

Guidance on your rights after the UK’s exit from the EU, accessing healthcare, getting a document legalised, English-speaking lawyers, how to vote abroad.

Tax, benefits, pensions and working abroad in Spain

Includes how to pay tax, claim State Pension and get tax credits abroad.
  • Benefits you can claim if you go abroad and countries with social security arrangements with the UK

  • What you need to know if you move or retire abroad - tax, pensions, voting and contacting your local council

  • Find out if you need to pay National Insurance in the UK or in the country you are visiting when you work abroad.

  • How to register your S1 form in Spain using the Instituto Nacional de la Seguridad Social (INSS) online portal.

  • How to claim State Pension if you're overseas - payment, tax, change of circumstances - contact the International Pension Centre

  • Find out whether you need to pay UK tax on foreign income - residence and ‘non-dom’ status, tax returns, claiming relief if you’re taxed twice (including certificates of residence)

  • Find out whether you need to pay tax on your UK income while you're living abroad - non-resident landlord scheme, tax returns, claiming relief if you’re taxed twice, personal allowance of tax-free income, form R43

  • Where you can work, your rights, healthcare, tax and National Insurance payments.

Birth, death and marriage abroad in Spain

Includes how to get married, list of funeral directors and how to register a birth abroad.

News and events in Spain

Find out about the UK government's diplomatic, security and development work in Spain.

Trade and invest: Spain

Includes investing and setting up a business in the UK and doing business in Spain.

British embassy or high commission in Spain

Includes contact details, opening hours and consular fees and local services.