You've gotten your UK visa and are now resident in the UK, here are five expat travel tips to keep in mind when you're setting off on a holiday abroad or visiting your family and friends back home.

1. Dual national children/adults need both their US AND UK passports to travel from the UK to America and back.

Autumn is close and it's not too early to start to planning where to get your pumpkin for those tasty pies and cakes! We have a list of the places where tinned pumpkin has been found in the past years as noted on our discussion forum, Twitter and Facebook networks. Or you could make your own pumpkin puree.