If you require immigration permission to study at LSE, you must ensure that you satisfy the Home Office terms and conditions of your immigration permission for the duration of your visa. This is a legal obligation and failure to do so may result in LSE withdrawing its sponsorship of you. Both LSE and you have some key responsibilities.
It is essential that you:
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.
- Replacement BRP - you must provide a new copy of your replacement BRP if your original BRP was lost or stolen
To provide new scans; taught student should contact the Student Advice and Engagement Team and PhD Students should contact PhD Academy.
You must ensure that your details in 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)
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.
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.
These are likely to include:
- Not working more hours than you are permitted to
- Not claiming public funds
For more information about how to meet these conditions visit this page.
LSE's legal responsibilities as a Student sponsor include:
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.
We will check that you have updated your contact details in 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
- changes visa category
- receives a refusal on their Student visa application
- completes their studies early
- transfers to a different programme
We check the class and/or seminar registers for all students holding Student visas.
We will report unsatisfactory attendance 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
If at any time during you studies you require advice on immigration, please contact the Student Advice and Engagement Team or visit their webpages for more information.