UK citizen with international fee status applying for UK only courses

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We're UK citizens living abroad. We'll try to get home status (as only here for my work and on temporary visas) but prepared we might need to pay international fees - we knew this before we left.

The thing is that my DD is interested in health-related roles, many of which are marked as UK only. She intends to remain in the UK which is her home country and work in the UK.

Does anyone know if it's the fee status which determines eligibility to apply for UK only courses or something else (like nationality)? It would be very unfair if she couldn't apply to these courses when she is British and intends to remain in the UK and work in the NHS.

I tried contacting one of the universities but they didn't seem to understnad what I wanted and kept on giving me standard answers which didn't answer my question!

Have you tried asking UCAS? I find them helpful

Are you living in EU? Cos if so, you get home fees status for 7 yrs post-Brexit. Not many people (and very few universities) know this.

Sorry if you're not in EU.

As for your actual qn, I would second "call UCAS" ... it is very hard to get to speak to the unis and when you do, the person answering the phone has usually no idea.

Sending in those "contact forms" has proven to be totally hopeless too.

We are British living in the EU. My DD has been granted home fee status from the universities she has offers from. Apparently they’re entitled until 2028. If you live in the EU you should be fine. Equally if you’ve only been living away from the UK temporarily on temporary work visas your DD should be fine with achieving home fee status.

www.ukcisa.org.uk/uploads/files/1/england_he_who_pays__home_fees_public_version1_10.5.21.pdf

This should give you an idea.

The key issue if you are not in EU is whether you are “ordinarily resident” in UK. From what you have said you have a strong case to argue that you are.

Ordinarily resident
You are ordinarily resident in the residence area for your category if you have habitually, normally and lawfully resided in that area from choice. Temporary absences from the residence area should be ignored and therefore would not stop you being ordinarily resident. It is also accepted in the UK courts that an individual can be ordinarily resident in more than one place at the same time; individuals wishing to demonstrate this would have to be living a lawful, normal and habitual residence in each of the areas in question.
If you can demonstrate that you have not been ordinarily resident in the relevant residence area only because you, or a family member, were temporarily working outside the relevant residence area, you will be treated as though you have been ordinarily resident there.
You can read some case law that explores the topic of ‘ordinary residence’ at www.ukcisa.org.uk/Information--Advice/Fees-and-Money/Ordinary-residence-case-law.

I'm going to try for home status but i'm prepared that we won't get it. We had taken this into account when moving abroad.
But it would be very sad that DD co, as a UK citizen, uldn't get accepted on to a course because she's been deemed international for fee status when it seems the idea is that the courses with NHS placements are saved for people who will work in the NHS - which DD would fully intend to do.

And we're not in the EU unfortunately so don't have that option either.