Residents of the countries below who are applying for a UK visa (valid for longer than six months) require a certificate to show that they are free from infectious pulmonary tuberculosis (TB).
You must have your TB testing done at a clinic which has been approved by the UK Home Office. Further information on how and where to get tested is on the Home Office website.
Your local British Embassy or British High Commission will also have full details of TB testing in your country.
A
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- Angola
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
B
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Benin (get tested in Nigeria)
- Bolivia
- Botswana
- Brunei
- Burkina Faso (get tested in Ghana)
- Burma
- Burundi (get tested in Rwanda)
C
- Cambodia
- Cape Verde (get tested in Gambia or Senegal)
- Central African Republic (get tested in Cameroon)
- Chad (get tested in Cameroon)
- Cameroon
- China
- Congo (get tested in Democratic Republic of Congo)
- Côte d’Ivoire (get tested in Ghana)
D
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Djibouti (get tested in Ethiopia)
- Dominican Republic
E
- East Timor (get tested in Indonesia)
- Ecuador
- Equatorial Guinea (get tested in Ghana)
- Eritrea (get tested in Kenya)
- Ethiopia
G
- Gabon (get tested in Cameroon)
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Guatemala
- Guinea (get tested in Sierra Leone)
- Guinea Bissau (get tested in Gambia or Senegal)
- Guyana
H
- Haiti
- Hong Kong
I
- India
- Indonesia
- Iraq
K
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kiribati (get tested in Fiji)
- Kyrgyzstan (get tested in Kazakhstan)
L
- Laos (get tested in Thailand)
- Lesotho (get tested in South Africa)
- Liberia (get tested in Ghana)
M
- Macau (get tested in Hong Kong)
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Mali (get tested in Gambia or Senegal)
- Marshall Islands (get tested in Fiji)
- Mauritania (get tested in Morocco)
- Micronesia (get tested in Fiji)
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Morocco
- Mozambique
N
- Namibia
- Nepal
- Niger (get tested in Ghana)
- Nigeria
- North Korea
P
- Pakistan
- Palau (get tested in Philippines)
- Papua New Guinea
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
R
- Russia
- Rwanda
S
- São Tomé and Principe (get tested in Angola)
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Solomon Islands (get tested in Papua New Guinea)
- Somalia (get tested in Kenya)
- South Africa
- South Korea
- South Sudan (get tested in Kenya)
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Swaziland (get tested in South Africa)
T
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Togo (get tested in Ghana)
- Thailand
- Turkmenistan
- Tuvalu (get tested in Fiji)
U
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- Uzbekistan
V
- Vanuatu (get tested in Fiji)
- Vietnam
Z
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Contacts
- Email the Visa Enquiries Team - General queries on visa applications and CAS