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Yes. Holding a valid Student visa gives you a strong expectation of being admitted, but it does not give you an absolute right of entry. A Border Force officer at the UK border can, in defined circumstances, refuse you leave to enter or cancel your existing permission even though your entry clearance or leave is … Read more

Short answer In most cases, no. The Graduate visa depends on you having “successfully completed” the specific course of study recorded on your most recent Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies (CAS). If you exit with a lower or different qualification than the one your CAS was assigned for, you will usually not meet the qualification … Read more

The basic principle Your Student visa is tied to the Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies (CAS) issued by your sponsoring institution and to the course dates it records. When you were granted permission, the Home Office added extra time to your visa beyond the course end date (a “wrap-up” period, usually up to four months … Read more

Short answer Yes, a university can in principle withdraw or cancel your Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies (CAS), and it can also withdraw its sponsorship of you after your Student visa has been granted. However, what actually happens depends heavily on the timing and the reason, and the consequences are different at each stage. The … Read more

Short answer Whether you can return depends on your immigration status at the moment you leave and on getting fresh permission to enter. The important point is that once your university withdraws sponsorship and UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) curtails your Student visa, that permission is treated as ending when you leave the UK. If … Read more

Overview The situation depends on two things: whose passport it is (almost always a passport issued by your home country rather than the UK), and where the loss, theft or expiry happens. Your passport is a separate document from your UK immigration permission, so losing it does not cancel your right to be in the … Read more

Short answer Yes. The Graduate visa is a non-extendable route, but you are permitted to switch from it to a Skilled Worker visa from inside the UK, provided you meet the Skilled Worker requirements. You do not need to leave the country to apply. The Graduate route is not on the list of categories that … Read more

The core rule The Graduate route has a specific requirement about your university’s status. Under Appendix Graduate of the Immigration Rules, at rule GR 4.1, you must have last been sponsored by a Student sponsor which is a higher education provider with a “track record of compliance” on the date you apply. The Home Office … Read more

Short answer Generally, no. The Student route is fundamentally an in-country study route. It is designed for people who come to the UK to study largely in person on the sponsor’s premises. Studying wholly or mainly remotely from overseas is not what the visa is for, and doing so for an extended period puts both … Read more

This answer separates two distinct issues that often get confused: what happens to your immigration permission (your Student visa), and what happens to your course, fees and academic progress. The rules are quite different, and the consequences depend heavily on why the provider stopped sponsoring you. The two things that can go wrong There is … Read more

Short answer It depends on your specific nationality, on where you are applying from, and on when you apply. The “visa brake” is a Home Office measure that refuses certain out-of-country visa applications based solely on the main applicant’s nationality. For the Student route it applies to nationals of Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar (Burma) and Sudan, … Read more

What “dependant” means here matters Your question depends heavily on the context in which you are asking, because “dependant” has different meanings in different areas of law in England and Wales. The most common contexts are immigration (a child on a visa as a dependant of a parent), welfare benefits such as Child Benefit, and … Read more

Short answer A baby born in the UK to a Student visa holder does not automatically become a British citizen and does not automatically hold their parent’s immigration status. To be able to travel in and out of the UK with the child, the parent needs to apply for a dependant child visa under the … Read more

Short answer Yes, a dependant of a Student visa holder can apply either at the same time as you or later, provided that at the time they apply you (the main student) are eligible to have dependants and continue to hold permission on the Student route. There is no rule requiring a dependant to apply … Read more

Short answer You can physically enter the UK as a visitor before your Student visa start date, but doing so does not activate your Student permission, and you cannot switch into the Student route from inside the UK while you hold visitor status. In practice this means you would normally have to leave the Common … Read more

Short answer Yes, an unmarried partner can qualify as your Student visa dependant, but only if two separate sets of conditions are met. First, you as the main Student visa holder must be in one of the limited categories of students who are permitted to bring dependants at all. Second, your relationship must satisfy the … Read more

Short answer In many cases yes, but not always. Whether your partner or child can switch to a Student dependant visa from inside the UK depends on three things: whether you (the main student) are the type of student who is allowed to bring dependants at all, whether your family member currently holds a visa … Read more

Short answer No, not as a fully online or distance-learning course. The Student visa (Student route) is built around in-person study in the UK. A course delivered entirely by distance learning, or a course designed specifically to support distance learning, cannot be sponsored on a Student visa. A licensed student sponsor is not permitted to … Read more