I have been told by a regular to come over here and ask for Mumsnet wisdom. My daughter is a UK citizen but we have lived around the world for twenty years. The last two and half years have been in the EU but not the UK.
Daughter has been offered a place for September at a UK university. The rules seem to be that she has to be resident in the UK/ EU for three years before being eligible for a) home fees and b) fee and/or maintenance loans.
So if she takes her place in September, as she is desperate to do, it looks as though she has to pay overseas fees and get no loans of any kind. Absolutely impossible for us financially.
My questions are 1) If she defers until September (having then been in the EU for more than three years) will she DEFINITELY be eligible for home fees? Her University say probably but they don't know.
2) Is there ANY way around this so she can go to University this September as a UK student with home fees and a loan?
3) Her university say that she has to stick with the status she enters with. So if she starts as an overseas student, she has to stay with that for the four years. Is that definitely true? We could manage to send her this September as an overseas student if we knew that we could switch her fee and loan status in February.
Thank you to anyone who has any knowledge and takes the time to reply.
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motherofstudents · 19/08/2014 19:22
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