UK Immigration Law - Admission for Students

If you are coming to the United Kingdom as a student, before you come here you will need to have been accepted onto a course of study by an organisation that is on the register of education and training providers which has been granted a Sponsorship Licence.

The course must be one of the following:
  • a publicly funded institution of further or higher education (a university
  • a genuine private education institution; or
  • an independent fee-paying school
  • a recognised full-time degree course;
  • a course run during the week that involves at least 15 hours of organised daytime study a week; or
  • a full-time course of study at an independent fee paying school.
You must also:
be able to pay for your course and support and accommodate yourself without recourse to public funds; and
leave the United Kingdom when you complete your studies.
 
Student visitor
If you are coming to the United Kingdom as a visitor to study you must:
genuinely be seeking entry as a student visitor for the limited period you tell us you require that does not exceed six months;
 
  • have been accepted on a course of study
  • leave the United Kingdom at the end of the visit you told us about;
  • support and pay for accommodation for yourself and any dependants without help from public funds; or ensure that you and your dependants will be supported and accommodated by relatives or friends and not take employment; and be able to meet the cost of the return or onward journey.
  •  A UK student visa applicant must show that they have been accepted onto a course of study at one of the following:
  • A publicly-funded institution of further or higher education
  • A bonafide private education institution
  • An independent fee-paying school outside the maintained sector.
 
Applicants for UK student visas must intend to follow either:
  • A recognised full-time degree course.
  • a minimum of15 hours of organized daytime study a week at one institution
  • A full-time course of study at an independent fee-paying school.
  • Students must be able to meet the costs of their course and accommodation and the maintenance of themselves and any dependents without undertaking full-time employment or engaging in business or having recourse to public funds. The applicants should also intend to leave the country at the end of their studies

For more information or to arrange a fixed fee interview with a Solicitor for 30 minutes, to discuss your application further or to obtain simple and straight forward advice as to the likely merits of your application, email immigrationlaw@wellerslawgroup.com. The nominal fee of £130 +VAT required for this will be deducted from the final charge you will pay, if you use our service within three months of this enquiry.

 

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