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Travel Requirements 

Step 1 - Microchipping

Before anything else, your pet must be microchipped. This is essential to properly identify your pet and proceed with other travel requirements.You must get your pet microchipped before, or at the same time as, their rabies vaccination. If you do not, they’ll need to be vaccinated again. Microchip must be readable.

Vet Examining Dog

Vaccination must not happen before your pet is 85 days old - Vaccination MUST be done after the insertion of a microchip - Listed Country – 21 Days cleared to travel - Non-Listed Country – After Rabies Vaccination you must wait 30 days, Blood Sample take and sent to an approved blood testing laboratory. Successful test. cleared to travel 90 days after the date the blood sample was drawn.

Step 2 - Rabies Vacinations

Basset Hound Check-Up

Treatment must be administered by an aurthourised vet. Vet must enter on Pet Passport or Health Certificate - Name of Product, Date, Time of Dose. Vet must sign and stamp the Document. - Worming must be done so that on crossing the UK border at least 24 hrs have elapsed but not more than 120 hours have passed.

Step 3 - Worming (Dogs Only)

Cat Cuddles

Step 4 - Pet Passport or Health Certificate

An EU Pet Passport is accepted for entry into the UK - In all other cases a GB Health Certificate must be issued. (EU Health Certificate is NOT accepted for entry into the UK)ing must be done so that at least 24 hrs have elapsed on crossing the UK border but not more than 120 hours have passed.

Cat Cuddles

Travel Document Requirements 

Great Britain (GB) Pet Health Certificate 

You can enter Great Britain with a Great Britain pet health certificate from any country.

Ask your vet if they can complete the certificate for you.

The certificate must be signed, stamped and dated by an official veterinarian (OV) who has authority from their government to issue it.

If your vet is not an OV they need to contact their local authority to get the certificate signed, stamped and dated.

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Your pet must enter Great Britain within 10 days of the pet health certificate being issued.

Pet Passport 

If you’re travelling from the EU or a country that issues pet passports, your pet will be allowed to enter Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland) if it has a valid pet passport.

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When you get a pet passport you’ll need to take:

  • your pet

  • your pet’s identity and vaccination records

  • rabies blood test results, if your pet needs them

If your vet does not issue pet passports, ask them for the nearest one that does.

 

What your pet passport must say:

Your pet will only be allowed into Great Britain if the pet passport is filled in correctly and your pet meets the entry requirements.

Check that the vet has filled in the following sections in the pet passport:

  • details of ownership - you must sign section I if your pet passport was issued on or after 29 December 2014

  • description of animal

  • marking or identification of animal

  • vaccination against rabies

  • rabies blood test (if needed)

  • details of the vet issuing the passport (for passports issued from 29 December 2014)

  • your dog’s tapeworm treatment (if needed)

Only vets in EU countries can enter rabies vaccination details into an EU pet passport. Any vet in any country can put tapeworm treatment details into a pet passport.

You’ll need to get a new pet passport when all the treatment spaces are full.

 

Travelling with a Pet Passport: 

You must bring originals of all your pet’s documents, not photocopies.

You should travel with previous pet passports in some cases, for example if your pet has had a blood test. Ask your vet if you think this applies to your pet.​

Animal Health Certificate (AHC)

Your pet can enter Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland) with an animal health certificate (AHC) if all the following apply:

  • the AHC was issued in Great Britain

  • you’re travelling from the EU or another country where you can use an AHC

  • it’s less than 4 months since the date you entered the EU or a country that accepts AHCs

Check that your vet fills in the AHC correctly. It should be signed, dated and include your pet’s vaccinations and tapeworm treatments.

If your AHC expires when you're abroad. 

If you stay abroad for more than 4 months, to bring your pet back to Great Britian you'll need either:

Listed Countries to Enter Great Britain (UK)

Antigua and Barbuda

Andorra

Argentina

Aruba

Ascension Island

Australia

Great Britain pet health certificate and if you have a cat a Certificate from the Australian Department of Agriculture

Azores and Madeira

Bahrain

Barbados

Belarus

Bermuda

BES Islands

(Bonair, Saint Eustatius and Saba)

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Martinique

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Mauritius

 

Mayotte

(French territory)

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Mexico

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Monaco

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Montserrat

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New Caledonia

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New Zealand

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North Macedonia

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NorwayA pet passportan AHC or a Great Britain pet health certificate

Peninsular MalaysiaGreat Britain pet health certificate and a certificate from the Malaysian government veterinary health service

Réunion (French territory)A pet passportan AHC or a Great Britain pet health certificate

RussiaGreat Britain pet health certificate

Saint Barthélemy (French Territory)A pet passportan AHC or a Great Britain pet health certificate

San MarinoA pet passportan AHC or a Great Britain pet health certificate

Saint MaartenGreat Britain pet health certificate

Saint Martin (French part of the island - French territory)A pet passportan AHC or a Great Britain pet health certificate

SingaporeGreat Britain pet health certificate

St HelenaGreat Britain pet health certificate

St Kitts and NevisGreat Britain pet health certificate

St LuciaGreat Britain pet health certificate

St Pierre and MiquelonGreat Britain pet health certificate

St Vincent and The GrenadinesGreat Britain pet health certificate

SwitzerlandA pet passportan AHC or a Great Britain pet health certificate

TaiwanGreat Britain pet health certificate

Trinidad and TobagoGreat Britain pet health certificate

United Arab EmiratesGreat Britain pet health certificate

USA (includes American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands)Great Britain pet health certificate

VanuatuGreat Britain pet health certificate

Vatican City StateA pet passportan AHC or a Great Britain pet health certificate

Wallis and FutunaGreat Britain pet health certificate

​​Great Britain pet health certificate

 

Great Britain pet health certificate

 

Great Britain pet health certificate

 

Great Britain pet health certificate

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NorwayA pet passportan AHC or a Great Britain pet health certificate

Peninsular MalaysiaGreat Britain pet health certificate and a certificate from the Malaysian government veterinary health service

Réunion (French territory)A pet passportan AHC or a Great Britain pet health certificate

RussiaGreat Britain pet health certificate

Saint Barthélemy (French Territory)A pet passportan AHC or a Great Britain pet health certificate

San MarinoA pet passportan AHC or a Great Britain pet health certificate

Saint MaartenGreat Britain pet health certificate

Saint Martin (French part of the island - French territory)A pet passportan AHC or a Great Britain pet health certificate

SingaporeGreat Britain pet health certificate

St HelenaGreat Britain pet health certificate

St Kitts and NevisGreat Britain pet health certificate

St LuciaGreat Britain pet health certificate

St Pierre and MiquelonGreat Britain pet health certificate

St Vincent and The GrenadinesGreat Britain pet health certificate

SwitzerlandA pet passportan AHC or a Great Britain pet health certificate

TaiwanGreat Britain pet health certificate

Trinidad and TobagoGreat Britain pet health certificate

United Arab EmiratesGreat Britain pet health certificate

USA (includes American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands)Great Britain pet health certificate

VanuatuGreat Britain pet health certificate

Vatican City StateA pet passportan AHC or a Great Britain pet health certificate

Wallis and FutunaGreat Britain pet health certificate

Malaysia

Martinique

Paw Prints in Sand

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