Tier 4 Responsibilities
A Tier
4 visa is issued for study in the UK. To maintain your visa rights in the UK
you must continue at all times to meet the terms and conditions of your visa.
If we become aware that you are not complying with the conditions of your visa,
we are under an obligation to report this to UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI).
A Tier 4 visa can only be
used for study at the University and for the particular programme for which the
visa was issued. Therefore you can only use your Tier 4 visa for study at UCL.
If you have a Tier 4 visa from another university you will not be able to enrol
or study at UCL unless you have made an in-time Tier 4 visa application to
extend your visa and switch to studying at UCL.
A Tier 4 Student and Sponsor Responsibilities Guide (PDF) has been created and hard copies of the booklet can be collected from the Student Centre (Chadwick Building). Please review this document in order to ensure that you comply with the conditions of your Tier 4 visa.
To maintain your Tier 4 visa you must
meet and maintain the conditions listed below.
For further information please contact the UCL Visa Compliance Team at visacompliance@ucl.ac.uk if you have
particular questions or queries.
- Documents
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UCL are
required to see the originals of and keep copies of your documents. This
includes the following:
Immigration
documents
- Passport
- 30 day Travel Vignette
- Visa/BRP
You must be
able to provide these documents for UCL at or before enrolment. If you are not
able to do so you will not be able to start your studies.
If you are unable to
enrol within the set enrolment period we must report this to UKVI. It is
therefore important that you keep us updated if you cannot enrol before
your start date for whatever reason. If you request a later
enrolment date, we will consider whether you will still have sufficient time on
your visa to complete your studies. If we do not think that you will have
sufficient time to complete your studies, we will not allow you to enrol
and your sponsorship will be withdrawn.
- Attendance
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UKVI rules state that a Tier 4 sponsor must report to the Home Office a Tier 4 student who it withdraws as a result
of failing to attend their programme without being granted authorised absence,
and a decision is taken to withdraw sponsorship. As such your visa status is
dependent on your continued full-time study on your programme. This means you
must maintain attendance on your course at all times and meet any minimum
attendance requirements. Any absences should be properly authorised in advance
of the absence.
Engagement monitoring is undertaken by academic departments at regular points during a student’s registration at UCL. This is to ensure that students are engaging with their studies; to identify problems as early as possible to ensure that action can be taken to advise and/or assist; and to meet the requirements set by UKVI for students with Tier 4 visas.
If you do not meet your attendance requirements and/or do not provide
UCL with adequate reasons why you have missed attendance we may be required to
report this to UKVI and withdraw our sponsorship of you. This will result
in the curtailment (shortening) of your visa and you will be expected to leave
the UK.
- Tier 4 Students and Changing Programmes
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UCL is required to report any
significant changes in your studies to UKVI. If any of the following are
applicable, your Tier 4 visa may be affected and therefore you
should seek guidance from the Student Immigration Compliance Team:
- Change in programme at UCL
- Change in study location
- The length of programme becomes shorter or longer
- You will complete a work placement
Tier 4 Students and Changing Programmes Guidance Document (97KB)
Student Immigration Compliance Team email: visacompliance@ucl.ac.uk.
- Withdrawals interruptions and repeats of study
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UCL is
required to report you to UKVI if you withdraw from, or interrupt your
programme of studies. In this case your
visa will be curtailed (shortened) and you will be expected to leave the UK.
UCL is also required
to report you if you need to take resits/repeats of study that do not require
attendance.
- Change of immigration status
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If you
change your immigration status by moving into another visa category you must inform
UCL straight away.
- Contact details
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If you change
your contact details at anytime during your studies you are required to provide
us with updated details as soon as possible. We are required to keep up to
date contact details for you at all times.
- Working in the UK
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Your Tier 4
visa allows you limited working rights in the UK. Please see our guidance for
further information about this.
As a Tier 4 student, you must not work more than the maximum number of hours allowed by your visa. You
must not work beyond your allowed working hours or do any prohibited work.
Breaking of working rights can result in cancellation of your visa, fines
and/or a ban on entry to the UK and so it is
imperative that you ensure that you do not breach your working rights.
Further information on
student working is included here: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/iss/immigration-visa/working-in-the-UK
- Police Registration
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Some
nationals are required to register with the police as part of their visa
conditions. For further information about this please see our guidance.
- Tier 4 Advice
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If you have further queries regarding your Tier 4 status you can contact the Student Immigration Advice Team by using the contact form.
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