Student Visa: An urgent help/opinions and others

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also, they were asking for the sponsors to have PhP1.3M in their bank accounts! but in the UK visa application checklist, it did not mention any amount... Plus we(sponsors) are here in the UK, both working and our monthly outgoings arent that much... so we could pay her tuition fee, accommodation for the duration of the studies...

Students who wish to apply under the existing student visa system must act now, or prepare to meet the new criteria.



At a meeting hosted by the UK Border Agency (UKBA) in London last week, further details of Tier 4 of the Points Based System were revealed to an audience of Educational providers. The main details are:



Tier 4 will commence at the end of March 2009
Educational providers recruiting students from outside the EU will need to register as sponsors with the UKBA
Sponsoring organisations will take on far greater responsibilities for policing the system
Sponsoring colleges will continue with paper based offer letters until electronic versions, ‘Confirmation of Acceptance of Studies’ (CAS), are introduced in the Autumn of 2009 for in country students
Full Sponsorship Management System (SMS) expected to be operational by February 2010, at which time all students will require a CAS from a sponsoring institution
Visas will be tied to a specific educational provider
Students applying to come to the UK will need to score at least 40 points under the new on-line system
30 Points will be awarded for a confirmed place or CAS form a sponsoring educational provider
10 points will be awarded for Maintenance and Funds Test and specific amounts of funds of around £9600 will need to be shown
Appeal rights abolished and replaced with an ‘Administrative Review’
No visas for courses below NVQ3
General students on courses lasting more than 12 months will be expected to show they have sufficient funds to pay for the first year of fees plus £9600 living allowance (British Council figure), plus a further £535 per month for each dependant. A slightly lower figure will be accepted for students living outside the London area.



Student taking vocational courses will have to match the ‘on the job’ training with classroom studies. Colleges will be forced to monitor the hours spent on work placement, although quite how this will be achieved in practice was not fully explained during the Q & A session.

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