This will include

• Passport - if you obtain a new passport during your studies you must provide us with copies. 
• Visa - if you apply for a new Student visa or change visa category you must provide us with copies.
• Apply for an e-Visa account

To update the School with your new documents, taught student should contact the Student Advice and Engagement Team  and PhD Students should contact PhD Academy.

You should submit an enquiry as soon as you receive notification of a visa refusal. 

You must ensure that your details in Student LSE for You are kept up to date. This includes:

• Your Term Time or Contact address (i.e. your address in London)
• Your Permanent or Home address (i.e. your address in your home country)
• Your Emergency Contacts or Next of Kin (i.e. somebody we can contact in case of emergency)

You can let the Home Office know of any changes by reporting a change of circumstance. 

Visit the Home Office's Report a change of circumstances if you have a visa or BRP page for more information. 

Contact our specialist advisers for more information on changing your details with the UKVI, including name changes.

Student Services (for taught students) or PhD Academy (for PhD students) may request information about your immigration status to maintain our records. You must respond to these queries quickly and within the deadline or it may affect your ability to remain enrolled on your programme.

These requests will always be made via your LSE email. 

You must provide accurate, complete and truthful information when requesting a new Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies (CAS) statement, including any visa refusals for the UK. 

This includes details of any previous periods of study in the UK. According to the 5-year cap imposed by the Home Office, undergraduate degree-level students cannot obtain permission to study in the UK for longer than 5 years. Postgraduate taught and PhD students are exempt from the time limits on degree level study. 

You must attend all your lectures and classes as scheduled with no unauthorised absences. 

You are required to attend all teaching sessions as scheduled on your personal timetable. If you wish to attend a session at a different time, always seek authorisation from your Department before you do so. Attending seminar sessions that you are not registered to attend without authorisation from your Department will result in your attendance not being recorded accurately.

You are expected to be in the UK during term-time, including the dissertation period for 12 and second-year 24 month Masters students . Please note that the Spring Term extend to the summer and until their expected programme end date for 12-month masters students and Year 2 students on 24-masters programmes.

Even if your assessments are online, you have agreed under the Conditions of Registration and Enrolment to remain in close proximity to campus. If you plan to return home prior to the Spring Term Exams and remain overseas throughout this period and your dissertation period, we will withdraw sponsorship of your visa because you are residing overseas.  This will affect your eligiblity for the Graduate Route.

You can find out more about the School's Engagement Montioring Policy here.

If you interrupt your studies or withdraw from the School, LSE will cancel sponsorship of your Student visa and you will need to leave the UK. 

If you are considering interrupting or withdrawing and hold a Student visa you are strongly encouraged to seek advice from the Student Advice and Engagement Team's specialist visa advisers.

At the point of pre-enrolment, you will have agreed that you will comply with the conditions of your visa and will have been directed to the following page outlining your particular conditions.

These are likely to include:

• Not working more hours than you are permitted to
• Only working in a permitted form of employment
• Not claiming public funds

LSE is required to report breaches of the conditions of the Student visa to the Home Office, including illegal working.  If following an investigation it has been found that you have breached the conditions of your visa, you will no longer be able to remain enrolled on your programme in accordance with the Conditions of Registration and Enrolment. Furthermore, the Home Office may choose to deport you and impose a ban on returning to the UK. It is not worth the risk to your studies or future plans to breach the conditions of your visa, so it is important to understand what you can or can't do.

You must apply for an eVisa account before the expiry date of your BRP.  More details are available on the following web page:

When you have your visa

The UKVI will be providing details of all expiry dates for Student visa holders who applied overseas via a data share. However, we will need to contact non-Student visa holders and students who applied in the UK with a BRP to provide evidence of their eVisa for our records. You must respond to this request within the timeframe given or your ability to remain enrolled may be affected.

We keep copies of your immigration documentation in the format of colour scans. 

In most cases we take these scans at enrolment but if your circumstances change we will need to take new scans.

The Student Advice and Engagement Team completes Data Quality Checks post-enrolment, so we may contact you for further information.  

We will check that you have updated your contact details in Student LSE for You. This includes:

• Your Term Time or Contact address (i.e. your address in London)
• Your Permanent or Home address (i.e. your address in your home country)
• Your Emergency Contacts or Next of Kin (i.e. somebody we can contact in case of emergency)

We will inform the Home Office immediately if a Student visa holder:

•  fails to enrol
•  interrupts their studies
•  withdraws from their programme
•  fails to progress after sitting or re-sitting assessments
• breaches any conditions of their visa e.g. working beyond the permitted hours or a type of work that is not permitted under the rules
• changes visa category
• receives a refusal on their Student visa application
• completes their studies early
• transfers to a different programme
• has an extended absence or completes their programme from overseas
• takes an unauthorised break from their studies

We check the class and/or seminar registers for all students holding Student visas.  

We will report unsatisfactory engagement to the Home Office, but you will be informed before this course of action is taken.

Issue Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies (CAS) for students who are eligible to study in the UK under current Home Office immigration rules. 

CAS Issuing Policy