Bringing your pet to the UK from Ukraine

If you are from Ukraine and are seeking refuge in the UK, you can bring your pet dog, cat or ferret without it going into quarantine or isolation if it has:

• been microchipped
• been vaccinated against rabies and had a blood test 30 days later to confirm the vaccine worked, and waited 3 months after the blood test to travel to the UK
• beena microchippedGB pet health certificate
• ahad pettapeworm passporttreatment or(dogs healthonly) certificatebetween issued24 beforehours you(one leftday) Ukraine
• hadand tapeworm120 treatmenthours (5 days) before travel

If your pet does not have a GB pet health certificate but does have an EU pet passport, call the Animal and Plant Health Agency on +44 3000 200 301 for advice.

You will need a licence to bring your pet to the UK if your pet:

• does not meet all these requirements
• meets these requirements, but you do not have proof that it does
• has been issued with an EU pet passport since leaving Ukraine

You can get a single licence forcovering up to 5 of your own petpets that isare travelling with you.

You cannot bring more than 5 pets with you to England, Scotland and Wales. This would be classed as a commercial import which is currently banned for pets from Ukraine, Poland, Belarus and Romania.

You cannot get a licence to import pets commercially, including rescue animals, or to bring pets to the UK using a third party or courier.

Your pet may have to quarantine or isolate for up to 4 months. You will not have to pay to quarantine or isolate your pet in kennels,kennels.

Your pet may be able to isolate at home on arrival in England and Scotland if it has been:

• microchipped
• vaccinated against rabies and had a blood test 30 days later by an approved laboratory to confirm the vaccine worked

Find an approved laboratory inside the EU, outside the EU or foran APHA laboratory in the UK.

APHA will tell you if your pet’spet transportmay be able to andisolate fromat quarantinehome or isolationif kennels.it needs to go into quarantine for up to 4 months.

Your pet cannot isolate at home if you are travelling to Wales. Your pet must isolate in an authorised quarantine facility. Read the pet travel rules for Wales.

There are different rules for pet birds, rodents, rabbits and other small mammals.

Before you travel to the UK

You must have a visa to enter the UK.

Follow these steps to get a licence to bring your pet with you to the UK from Ukraine.

1. Before you travel to the UK, call the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) on +44 3000 200 301 (option 2) or email ukrainepettravel@apha.gov.uk

2. APHA will email you a form for a licence for yourup pet.to 5 pets. Fill in the form and email it back to APHA. You can ask for a Ukrainian version of the form.

3. APHA will review your licence application form and the vaccines and healthcare your pet has had.

4. DependingIf onyou theare vaccinestravelling andto healthcareEngland youror petScotland, has had, APHA may send you a homeform isolationto form. This will ask you about the home where you will be staying. This is to find out if your pet could isolate at home. This will depend on the vaccines and healthcare your pet has had. You and your host in the UK must fill this in and emailsend it back to APHA.

5. APHA will email you to tell you if your pet needs to go into quarantine,quarantine isolation kennels or home isolation when it arrives in the UK.

6. APHA will email you a licence.

7. Agree a date, time and entry point into the UK with APHA. You must book your travel to arrive on the date and time agreed with APHA.

8. If APHA has given you a licence for your pet to isolate at home and you are travelling to Dover or on Eurotunnel, you must book an appointment at the Pet Vet Check Centre for when you arrive in the UK. To book, email petvetcheck@apha.gov.uk. They will respond within 24 hours and send you the date, time and directions for your appointment. If you’re travelling by another route, agree with APHA how you will travel to the home where you will be staying.

Where to arrive in the UK

You must arrive at an approved port or airport and follow your carrier’s rules for travelling with pets. Your pet must travel with you.

If possible, you should arrive at one of the UK’s main entry points for animals:

• Eurotunnel (Calais to Folkestone)
• Port of Dover (Eastern Docks)
• London Heathrow airport

You can also arrive at one of these other approved entry points.

Ports

These are the approved ports:

• Harwich International Port
• Hull
• Portsmouth

Airports

These are the approved airports:

• Belfast
• Edinburgh
• Glasgow
• Glasgow Prestwick
• Leeds Bradford
• London Gatwick
• Manchester

When you arrive in the UK

If your pet is going into quarantinequarantine, or isolation kennels, APHA will collect your pet. If you travel by:

• ferry, your pet will be collected from you before leaving the ferry
• Eurotunnel, your pet will be collected from you in Coquelles (Calais), France
• air, your pet will be takencollected tofrom athe holdingplane facilitywhen atyou theland airport in the UK

If APHA has given you a licence for your pet to isolate at home,home theyand willyou contactarrive:

• at youDover or by Eurotunnel, take your pet to discussthe travel.
  Pet Vet Check Centre for its appointment
• by any other route, travel to the home where you will be staying as agreed with APHA - a vet will visit you there

At the quarantine facility

If your pet goes into quarantine on arrival in the UK, a vet will assess your pet and give it appropriate healthcare.

You will not have to pay for any essential healthcare that your pet needs while in quarantine.

Your pet will be:

• microchipped if necessary
• given a blood test to check if ityour pet has hadenough aimmunity against rabies vaccination or will need one - results of the blood test should take 3 days, but may take longer when large numbers of animals are entering the UK
• vaccinated for other diseases such as kennel cough and parvovirus
• given tapeworm treatment if it is a dog and the treatment is necessary
• microchipped if necessary

If the blood test shows that your pet hasdoes not hadhave aenough rabiesimmunity vaccinationagainst rabies

If your pet has not had a rabies vaccination, or does not have enough immunity, the vet will vaccinate your pet and keep it under observation.observation in an authorised quarantine facility.

After 30 days your pet will have another blood test to check if the vaccine has worked.

Your pet will then move to isolation.

If the blood test shows that your pet has hadenough a rabies vaccinationimmunity

If the blood test shows that your pet has hadenough a rabies vaccination,immunity, APHA will arrange for your pet to go into isolation.

Isolation after quarantine

APHA will tell you where your pet will need to go for isolation and how long your pet will need to be in isolation. This may be for up to 3 months.

Your pet may isolate:

• at isolation kennels if APHA still need to monitor it for signs of rabies or if your accommodation is not suitable for home isolation - you will not have to pay to isolate your pet in kennels, or for your pet’s transport to and from isolation kennels
• at the home where you are staying in England or Scotland if APHA assess that your pet and home are suitable - they will send you a form for you and your host to fill in and return

At the Pet Vet Check Centre

If APHA approvehas thatgiven you a licence for your pet canto isolate at home theyin England or Scotland, take your pet to the Pet Vet Check Centre for its appointment.

At the appointment, the vet will sendgive your pet:

• a physical examination and check vaccination or blood test records you have brought with you
• a homemicrochip, isolationif form.they Youaren’t already microchipped
• a blood test to check your pet’s immunity against rabies, or give them a vaccination if they haven’t already been vaccinated
• tick and tapeworm treatment (tapeworm for dogs only)
• a routine vaccination against common pet diseases

If the vet has any concerns, your hostpet may not be allowed to isolate at home. The vet will take your pet to a quarantine facility for more checks and assessments. This is to prevent diseases spreading in the UKUK.

Following a successful pet vet check

You will needtake your pet to completethe andhome returnwhere thisyou form.will be staying to isolate.

You can not travel on public transport. APHA will assigngive you a vetlicence toso you can take careyour ofpet home in your vehicle.

APHA will assign a vet to your pet while it is isolating at home in theEngland UK.or Scotland. If your pet is unwell you should contact this vet. You will not have to pay for any essential healthcare for your pet while it is isolating.

You must follow the home isolation conditions until the end of the isolation period.

Bringing a pet bird, rodent, rabbit or other small mammal to the UK from Ukraine

You need a licence from APHA to bring your pet bird, rodent, rabbit or other small mammal to the UK from Ukraine.

To get a licence, you should contact APHA for a form before you travel to the UK.

When you have a licence you can travel to the UK with your pet. For 30 days after your pet arrives in the UK it must:

• be kept at home indoors in an enclosure
• not have any contact with any other pets or wildlife
• not use a garden or an outdoor run

If your pet is unwell during its first 30 days in the UK, do not take it to a vet. You must call APHA, they will tell you what to do.