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This guidance is supplemental to OFSI’s general guidance and other regime, thematic or sectoral specific guidance. Please visit our guidance pages to access these.

This page contains additional guidance in relation to UK financial sanctions licensing, covering:

  • Licensing principles
  • Delegation frameworks
  • Personal staff payments licensing guidance
  • TravelPermitted licensingtravel guidanceexpenses for sanctions licence applications

Updates to this page

Published 27 February 2024

Last updated 186 MarchJune 2025 + show href="#full-history">+ show all updates
  1. Update of title and summary for page, and for the travel expenses guide.

  2. Link added for signing up to the new joint UK sanctions email alert service, provided by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) and the Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation (OTSI).

  3. Licensing Delegation Frameworks updated

  4. OFSI has published OFSI Personal Staff Payments Licensing Guidance, and upgraded OFSI Travel Licensing Guidance to the new digital guidance format.

  5. OFSI Travel Guidance added to the licensing guidance page

  6. First published.

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