Registered Traveller: faster entry through the UK border
Eligibility
To apply for Registered Traveller membership, you must be 18 or older and have an eligible passport.
You must also either:
- have an eligible UK visa - if you need a visa to visit the UK
- have visited the UK at least 4 times in the last 24 months - and do not need a visa to travel
A visit is when you enter the UK from another country. It does not count if you鈥檙e passing through the UK on your way to another country.
Eligible passports
Africa
Botswana, Seychelles.
Asia
Brunei, Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region passports only), Macao Special Administrative Region, Malaysia, Maldives, Taiwan (if your passport has a personal ID number on the photo page).
Europe
Andorra, Monaco, Vatican City State.
Middle East
Israel (a travel document in lieu of national passport, also called a provisional passport, is not eligible).
North America
Bahamas, Mexico, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Oceania
Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga.
South and Central America
Argentina, Belize, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay and Uruguay.
Eligible visas
Most visas are eligible.
You cannot use your visa to apply for Registered Traveller membership if you have:
- a Marriage Visitor visa
- a Graduate visa
- a British National (overseas) visa - (including dependants)聽
- a High Potential Individual visa聽
- a Temporary Work - Creative Worker visa concession certificate of sponsorship
- an EEA family permit
- been granted 鈥榙iscretionary leave鈥� or 鈥榣eave outside the rules鈥�