Immigration Permission to Enrol

Yes. You can study the programme detailed on the CAS (Confirmation of Acceptance of Studies) you used to apply for your Student immigration permission. When you Pre-Enrol online, please provide the following:

Evidence of your immigration permission:

• UKVI decision email and
• vignette (visa sticker) in your passport (if you were issued with one)
• if you have a digital status (eVisa), you must provide us with a share code

Evidence of the date you arrived in the UK:

• If a UK Border Force Officer stamped your passport, you must provide a copy of the Officer's date stamp. The Border Force Officer's date stamp may be on your immigration sticker or another page in your passport.
• If your vignette/passport was not stamped upon arrival, you must provide other evidence of the date you arrived in the UK. You will not receive a stamp if you travel to the UK via the Republic of Ireland or if you use an eGate. The evidence you must provide should be in your name and could be one of the following:
• Your boarding pass
• Your flight/travel ticket OR
• Your booking confirmation

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. You can use the date your permission was issued/valid from as your arrival date.

Yes. If you have completed a programme of studies at QMUL and your Student immigration permission for these studies has not yet expired, you can enrol.

You must submit a new Student immigration application using your new CAS within six weeks of enrolment or before your current immigration permission expires (whichever is sooner).

No. If you are in the UK, you will have to submit a Student visa application using a CAS issued by QMUL before you can study at QMUL.

The only exceptions to this are for intercollegiate or associate students when further evidence is also required before we can complete enrolment.

It depends!

If you applied for your Student visa from overseas and have entered the UK before you have received a decision or before the issue date of your permission, you have entered as a Visitor and are not permitted to enrol. You must leave the UK and re-enter AFTER the issue date of your Student permission once granted.

If you are in the UK and have submitted a new Student visa application using your CAS from QMUL, as long as your previous permission was not a Graduate or High Potential Individual Visa, you should be able to enrol. We ask you to provide:

Evidence that you submitted a Student immigration application before your current immigration permission expired

• a share code for your current eVisa
• a copy of your 'Submitted Application' as we are required to check key information is correct
• a copy of your UKVI decision letter/email from when your previous visa was granted

You can download your Submitted Application as a PDF document from your UKVI application account. You may need to click on the link in the e-mail that the UKVI sent you when you started your application. The email from the UKVI may have the subject "UK visa application: sign in details".

Updates about your immigration application

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 UKVI. If you fail to respond to these requests, you will be at risk of deregistration.

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:

• Any Student immigration permission for study at another institution (not QMUL) where you are not continuing your studies at that institution.
• A Graduate Visa
• A High Potential Individual Visa

Examples of immigration permission which would allow you to study at QMUL (not an exhaustive list):

• as a dependant (husband/wife/partner/child) of someone in the UK
• holders of Skilled/Temporary Worker permission
• holders of UK Ancestry/Youth Mobility/Global Talent permission
• holders of BN(O)/Resettlement Schemes (Afghan'/Ukraine)/Visitor* permission
• Asylum seekers/refugees
• those who have Pre-settled or Settled status via the EU Settlement Scheme

*We can only enrol students with Visitor permission on courses of less than 6 months in duration

Evidence of your current immigration permission

You can find the options for selection in the task and information on the documents required on our Types of Immigration Permission webpage. Evidence required is usually (but not limited to) the following:

• valid immigration sticker, stamp or certificate in your passport or travel document; or
• a share code for us to verify your eVisa
• valid Asylum Registration Card (both sides) and full BAIL 201 notice.

 

Skilled Workers

Please note that if you hold Skilled Worker permission and are enrolling on a FULL TIME course, we are required to seek confirmation from your employer/sponsor before we can complete your enrolment.

You will need to provide us with a named contact or contact details for your employer's Human Resources team in order for us to contact them by email. Please ensure you check your emails regularly for any requests from us. Failure to respond or provide the necessary information will delay your enrolment.

Yes!

Examples of 'settlement' immigration permission which would allow you to study at QMUL (not an exhaustive list):

• Indefinite Leave to Enter
• Indefinite Leave to Remain
• Settled status via the EU Settlement Scheme

 

Evidence of your current immigration permission

Whilst there is no time limit or expiry date for settlement or indefinite leave to remain, you will be required to enter an expiry date in the Immigration Permission (Visa) Details - Part Two - Visa Upload section. Please therefore use the following:

• UK Arrival Date: Date your permission was issued or valid from (if known) OR if you have been in the UK since before 2023, please use the date that you are completing Pre-Enrolment
• Issue Date: As above
• Expiry Date: Please use 31/12/2099 for our purposes.

 

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. There are also some programmes that QMUL cannot issue a CAS for.

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 should be able to enrol and continue to study while your immigration application is decided (including any in-time appeal or administrative review).

If you are an EU/EEA national or family member and you have made a late application to the EU Settlement Scheme, you should be able to enrol with your Certificate of Application (verified by a share code) and study while you are waiting for a decision on your application.

You will still need to provide the following:

Evidence of your identity

• valid passport; or
• valid travel document

Evidence of your previous immigration permission

• valid immigration sticker, stamp or certificate in your passport or travel document; or
• share code to verify your eVisa
• a PDF copy of your UKVI decision letter/email from when your previous permission was granted.

If you are waiting on a decision on an EU Settlement Scheme application, you will not need to provide evidence of previous immigration permission but should still provide your 'Certificate of Application' letter and a share code to verify this.

Evidence that you have submitted an immigration application

You will need to provide:

• a copy of your Submitted Application. You can download this as a PDF from your UKVI application account.

 

Enrolment Risk Waiver

By enrolling without immigration permission that covers the whole of your programme of studies, you are confirming that you understand that:

• If your immigration application (and any subsequent in-time administrative review) is not successful, you will have to interrupt or withdraw from your studies and return home.
• If you have to interrupt or withdraw from your studies because your immigration application is not successful, you will be held liable for the fees for your programme for the whole academic year and you will not be entitled to any refund.

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 Admissions Office to defer your place until the next intake.

Updates about your immigration application

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 UKVI. If you fail to respond to these requests, you will be at risk of deregistration.

No. If your programme is longer than six months, you must obtain a CAS and apply for Student immigration permission to enrol.

If you applied for your Student visa from overseas and have entered the UK before you have received a decision or before the issue date of your permission, you have entered as a Visitor and are not permitted to enrol. You must leave the UK and re-enter AFTER the issue date of your Student permission.

Yes. You can enrol provided you can complete your studies within your grant of immigration permission.

If you have read the information above and are not sure if your immigration permission allows you to study, please raise an enquiry via AskQM.

In your email, please include a copy of your passport details page and a copy of your most recent immigration sticker, stamp, document from the UKVI confirming your status and a share code for us to verify your eVisa.

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 UKVI/Home Office or Tribunals Service). 

We are not able to issue a CAS to sponsor student visas for the part-time variants of the following programmes:

• PgCert Medical Education
• MA Medical Education
• MSc Prehospital Medicine

We can only offer you a place on one of the above programmes if you have pre-existing permission to study in the UK as:

• A British or Irish citizen; or
• Not a British or Irish Citizen but have UK immigration permission, which does not restrict you from studying (For example, you have EU Settled or Pre-settled Status or a Skilled Worker Visa)

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:

• details of the translator/translation company's credentials; and
• confirmation that it is an accurate translation of the original document; and
• the translator/translation company's contact details

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 provide 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 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