Financial sanctions licensing: supplementary guidance
Guidance from OFSI for licence applications: licensing principles, delegation frameworks, and permitted 'reasonable' payments for staff and travel expenses.
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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
- Permitted travel expenses for sanctions licence applications
Updates to this page
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Update of title and summary for page, and for the travel expenses guide.
Update history
2026-09-10 11:22
Permitted travel expenses for sanctions licence applications guidance amended.
2026-02-02 09:52
Licensing Delegation Framework for Counter Terrorism updated
2025-06-06 15:28
Update of title and summary for page, and for the travel expenses guide.
2025-03-18 15:00
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).
2024-10-21 16:25
Licensing Delegation Frameworks updated
2024-06-12 15:49
OFSI has published OFSI Personal Staff Payments Licensing Guidance, and upgraded OFSI Travel Licensing Guidance to the new digital guidance format.
2024-02-27 10:47
OFSI Travel Guidance added to the licensing guidance page
2024-02-27 09:38
First published.