You are required to attend, engage and make progress with their study under the conditions of your Tier 4 visa. Failure to do so result in your place at the University and your abililty to remain in the UK.

UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) require that all students that hold a Tier 4 visa are monitored regularly during their study to ensure that they are engaging appropriately with their chosen programme.

The Student Immigration Service works closely with academic departments to help ensure that students are fully engaging with programme requirements. ‘Tier 4 students’ are monitored in line with standard University academic monitoring practice for all students (with or without a Tier 4 visa) and no additional activities are expected in order to meet UKVI monitoring requirements.

Students on taught programmes:

Academic departments will monitor your engagement and progress including (but not limited to) attendance at lectures, seminars, meetings and exams and submission of coursework. Registers are regularly taken at sessions where attendance is required and submission of all coursework is recorded.

In addition to this academic departments will identify if you miss compulsory academic commitments and contact you to address the issue. The Student Immigration Service will be also be notified and will contact you to remind you of your responsibility to engage with your programme under the conditions of your Tier 4 visa.

If problems with engagement and progress continue, you will be issued with an Academic Progress Notice (APN) in line with standard University procedure. If you fail to meet the requirements of the APN, action will be taken by your department and, where you are required to withdraw from study, UKVI will be informed.

Advice about absence, vacation periods & spending time outside the UK

You must check your University email account regularly as we use this to contact you during your studies.

You should make sure that your current address in UK, your mobile phone number and email address are correct and update your details if they change.

Login to DUO to check and update your details.

The University is required to inform UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) if you are no longer residing in the UK. If you decide to leave the UK before the end of your programme, this must be agreed with your Department first. 

If you are considering changes to your study including changing your programme, suspending or withdrawing from study you should also first discuss this with your Department before making any decisions.

The Student Immigration Service will notify UKVI once any changes have been agreed and have taken place.

Full details how these changes might affect your Tier 4 visa

UKVI require that you report any changes to your personal details to them.

The way in which you report the changes depends on where you are and whether you have a Biometric Residence Permit (BRP) or not.

Report your changes in circumstance by following the instructions on the UKVI website

If you have submitted a visa application and it is refused by UK Visas & Immigration, you must contact the Student Immigration Service and provide a copy of the refusal notice immediately.

Any delay in responding to your refusal notice could affect your ability to remain in the UK.

If your switch from one immigration category to another, particularly if you no longer hold or require a Tier 4 visa, you must bring your passport and new visa to the Student Immigration Service as soon as possible so that your record can be updated.

The conditions of your Tier 4 visa prohibit you from receiving any public funds (benefit) from the UK Government. If you apply for any benefit you do not qualify for, you will be breaching the conditions of your visa. This may affect any future visa applications.

A list of public funds is available from UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI)

If you have received or applied for any of public funds listed, you could be in breach of the immigration rules and you should contact us immediately.

You must comply with any conditions specified on your visa. If you have any questions about your visa status or the conditions attached, please contact the Student Immigration Service.