What changes have been made to T4 students' visas for studying in the UK?

1. From April 6th, all non-permanent residents, including international students and those from outside Europe who hold visas for more than six months, will have to pay a "medical surcharge" for medical treatment in the UK.

The extra medical expenses are 200 pounds per year, and the international students are 150 pounds per year. When submitting the online visa application form, the applicant should pay this fee at the same time. Visa applicants need to pay a surcharge covering the entire validity period of a British visa in advance to obtain a visa.

2. British student visas can be processed urgently.

Judging from the policies in recent years, although the threshold for studying in the UK is increasing, the speed of visa processing in the UK has also increased accordingly.

T4 student visa is a kind of visa applied by students admitted to British schools. Generally speaking, it takes 15 working days on average from submitting an application to getting a visa.

If you have special needs, you can choose T4 student visa for emergency treatment, and the visa will be issued within 5 working days.

The expedited fee is about 100, and the original T4 student visa fee is about 3050 yuan, so the total cost is about 4 100 yuan.

3. The visa language test has changed.

The British government announced important changes in the visa language examination, reduced the types of examinations recognized by visa applications, and introduced new requirements related to the way such examinations were held.

As the most popular English test for higher education and immigrants in the world, IELTS has been approved for all British visas that require applicants to prove their English proficiency. This continues the long-term important role of IELTS in the language tests of immigrants in Britain, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

According to the new arrangement, the IELTS test for applying for a British visa will be held in more than 65,438+000 major test centers around the world for many times throughout the year. Those who need to prove that their listening and speaking ability has reached the level of European language * * the same reference frame (CEFR)a 1 or B 1 will take the IELTS test.

Life skills, new exams.

If you want to take IELTS or IELTS life skills as part of your application for a UK visa (except for some student visa types), you need to take the test at the IELTS test center authorized by the UK Visa and Immigration Office (UKVI), and the test will also be conducted under the conditions stipulated by UKVI.

If you are going to apply for a Tier4 student visa and study in a British university as a "highly trusted guarantor", you only need to submit the English language proficiency certificate required by the university. All British institutions recognize IELTS scores. In other words, you can take the test at any of the 65,438+0,000 IELTS test sites in the world (there are 53 test sites in China), and the IELTS score you get will be used as proof of your English language ability in applying for British institutions.

If the visa application of British students is rejected, there will be no right of appeal.

In order to crack down on the overstaying behavior of some student visa holders, starting from 20 14, 10/0/0, the domestic government made major amendments to the student visa: if the application for a student visa or a student's family's accompanying visa in China is rejected, there will be no right of appeal, and only administrative reconsideration can be applied.

After March 2 this year, this influence has been extended to all points-based visas or their accompanying visas.

After the application for administrative reconsideration is filed, the Immigration Bureau will generally handle it within 28 days; Reconsideration cannot submit new evidence.