The UK Government requires us to check that you have immigration permission or a status that allows you to undertake your studies in the UK. This page explains what you will need to show us to prove that you have immigration permission or a status that allows you to undertake your studies in the UK.
The information on this page does not apply to:
For information about the enrolment process, deadlines and all the documentation you must provide, please see the enrolment section.
Information about September enrolment will be available from August and information regarding January enrolment will be available from December.
If we are required to keep evidence of your immigration permission, we will write to you after the start of term to request this.
When we write to you, will depend on when you arrive in the UK. We will write to you after the date you have told us you plan to arrive in the UK or the date that you have collected your student ID card (whichever is sooner).
Please make sure that, if your plans change, you keep your expected date of arrival up-to-date on MySIS so that we don't ask you for your evidence before you have arrived in the UK.
If your immigration permission does not cover all of your studies, we will write to you shortly before your immigration permission expires to ask you to send us evidence that you have made an immigration application that will allow you to stay in the UK and study at QMUL.
If you do not provide evidence demonstrating that you have immigration permission or a status, which allows you to undertake your studies, we will terminate your registration and enrolment.
If you enrol without immigration permission that covers the whole of your programme of studies, you are confirming that you understand that:
If you are not prepared to accept this risk, you should not enrol. If you do not wish to accept this risk, you may be able to ask the QMUL Admission Office to defer your place until the next intake.
Yes. You can study the programme(s) detailed on the CAS (Confirmation of Acceptance of Studies) you used to apply for your Student Route (formerly Tier 4) immigration permission. We will ask you to provide:
The UK Government will post your BRP to the address you specified in your immigration application.
You must collect your BRP card from the Post Office you nominated in your immigration application as soon as possible.
You must not attempt to collect your BRP card during any period when the UK Government requires you to stay isolated to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
To remind yourself of which Post Office you nominated, please see the Decision Letter given to you when the visa application centre returned your passport.
If you have been unable to collect your BRP by the time we contact you, we will ask you to provide your Decision Letter. We will make a note to contact you again when you have had time to collect your BRP.
If you applied outside of the UK, you must provide evidence of the date that you arrived in the UK. What you must provide will depend on what happened when you landed in the UK:
If you applied for your immigration permission inside the UK, you do not need to provide evidence of the date that you arrived in the UK.
EEA and Swiss students will usually be issued an e-visa instead of an immigration sticker, stamp or card, we will ask you to use the "View and prove your immigration status - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)" service to share your immigration status with us. We will also ask you for evidence of the date that you arrived in the UK (see above).
Yes. If you have completed a programme of studies at QMUL and your Student Route (formerly Tier 4) immigration permission for these studies has not yet expired, you can enrol.
You must submit a Student Route immigration application before your current immigration permission expires or within six weeks of enrolling (whichever is sooner).
We will ask you to provide the following:
You can open your form and download your Document Check-List by clicking on the link in the e-mail the UK Government sent you when you started your application. The e-mail from the UK Government is sent from "noreply@visas-immigration.service.gov.uk" and has the subject "UK visa application: sign in details".
We will periodically contact you to request that you update your student record with the progress of your immigration application. You should respond to these requests even if you are confirming that you have not had a response from the Home Office. If you fail to respond to these requests, we will terminate your registration and enrolment.
No. If you are in the UK, you will have to submit a Student Route immigration application using a CAS issued by QMUL before you can study at QMUL.
If your previous permission was not a Graduate Visa, you can study the course(s) detailed on the CAS (Confirmation of Acceptance of Studies) you used to apply for your Student Route (formerly Tier 4) immigration permission. We will ask you to provide:
If you applied outside of the UK and have immigration permission of six months or less, you must provide:
If you applied outside of the UK for your current immigration permission, you must provide evidence of the date that you arrived in the UK. What you must provide will depend on what happened when you landed in the UK:
It depends. If your immigration permission does not prohibit study at QMUL, you will be able to enrol.
Types of immigration permission that would prohibit you from studying at QMUL include:
Examples of immigration permission which would allow you to study at QMUL:
We will contact you via email to ask you for evidence of the above at which point you will need to provide the following documents electronically:
No. If you have a Graduate Visa (sometimes referred to as a Post Study Work visa), your immigration conditions prohibit you from studying a course for which you could apply for a Student Visa. You will need to obtain a Student Visa before starting your studies.
There are some exceptions. For example, you cannot apply for a Student Visa for a distance learning only programme.
It depends. If your previous immigration permission did not prohibit you from studying at QMUL and you submitted your immigration application before that immigration permission expired, you will be able to enrol and continue to study while your immigration application is to be decided (including any in-time appeal or administrative review).
If you are an EEA national or family member and you have made a late application to the EU Settlement Scheme, you will be able to enrol and study while you are waiting for a decision on your application.
You will need to provide:
If you are waiting on a decision on an EU Settlement Scheme application, you will not needto provide evidence of previous immigration permission.
If you applied for your current immigration permission inside the UK, you do not need to show evidence of the date that you arrived in the UK.
By enrolling without immigration permission that covers the whole of your programme of studies, you are confirming that you understand that:
We will periodically contact you to request that you update your student record with the progress of your immigration application. You should respond to these requests even if you are just confirming that you have not had a response from the Home Office. If you fail to respond to these requests, your registration and enrolment will be terminated.
If you do not have your passport or travel document and evidence of your immigration permission because you have already sent these to the Home Office, we will accept high quality colour photocopies of your documents. If you are providing a copy of a biometric residence permit or asylum registration card, please make sure you have copies of both sides.
If you did not take high quality photocopies of your documents before you sent them and can't obtain copies from elsewhere (e.g. from your previous academic institution), the QMUL Immigration Compliance Team may, with your permission, be able to request copies from the Home Office. Please note, requesting documents from the Home Office may take some time and this could delay your enrolment.
No. If your programme is longer than six months that you must obtain a CAS and apply for Student Route (formerly Tier 4) immigration permission to enrol.
Yes. You can enrol provided you can complete your studies within you grant of immigration permission.
If you have read the information above and are not sure if your immigration permission allows you to study, please contact the QMUL Immigration Compliance Team.
In your email, please include a copy of your passport details page and a copy of your most recent immigration sticker, stamp, card or document from the Home Office confirming your status.
If you hold more than one nationality, please provide evidence for each nationality you hold.
If you have an in-time immigration application, which is still to be decided (including any in-time appeal or administrative review), please provide evidence of this (e.g. correspondence from the Home Office or Tribunals Service).
If you have not already provided us with a verifiable, colour copy of the required original qualification certificates, we may contact you to ask that you provide these to the Admissions Office via your MySIS Applicant Portal. What documents we need to see will be communicated to you through the Pre-Enrolment process.
If your qualifications are not in English, the original must be accompanied by a fully certified translation by a professional translator/translation company. This translation must include:
It must also be dated and include the original signature of the translator or an authorised official of the translation company.
If you have not yet been issued your certificates at the time of enrolment, please bring a notification slip or pass list.
It is essential that you provide original documentation where possible; if unavailable, we can accept photocopies that have been stamped and signed by the awarding institution or body.
If you have any questions regarding your qualifications, please contact the Admissions Office via your MySIS Applicant Portal.
This guidance is very important as the university may NOT be able to fully enrol you if you do NOT present us with your original documentation at the point of enrolment or before.
If you are not a national of the European Economic Area, Switzerland, Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea or the USA and are studying certain postgraduate and research programmes (and undergraduate programmes leading to a postgraduate qualification), you will need to obtain ATAS (Academic Technology Approval Scheme) clearance before you can enrol on your programme of studies. If you will be applying for Student Route (formerly Tier 4) immigration permission, you will need to obtain ATAS clearance before requesting a CAS from the university.
You should not need to provide a copy of your ATAS clearance certificate at enrolment as this will be checked by our Admissions Office before you are cleared to enrol.
For more information on ATAS see: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/academic-technology-approval-scheme