Anyone moved abroad years ago and sent their UK born child to Uni back there?

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Just that really. How does it work? I know we would pay international fees but would they still qualify for student loans to help out as they're British citizens? If not, is there any financial assistance at all or is it all on us? Did they experience reverse culture shock and, biggest question of all. do they ever come "home"?

One of my DC hates their US college and wants to move to the UK. We have no problems with the general idea, just the logistics. I'm also concerned that they have a very romanticised idea of what living in the UK is actually like, as they don't really remember living there just the holidays since we moved.

All advice gratefully received!

From memory, you have to have resided back in the UK for 3 years prior to them starting Uni in order to qualify for home status.

Yes, that's true and we are already fine for covering that, although if they could get a loan to help out that would be great!

I was a classed an international student as I came to Uni in the UK from Portugal as that's where I my parents lived. I got a loan for the University fees themselves but couldn't get access to any maintenance loans for accomodation or living costs etc. That had to be funded by myself.

We sent ds to UK for both sixth form and uni. However, as dh was HM Forces just prior to university starting, that counted for ds being UK resident for university purposes, and we were living in an EU member state as well.

We moved overseas in 1995 and sent ds back to university in 2018. He had never lived in the UK. We pay fees and all other expenses.
Ds has a British accent, but was pretty clueless about life in the uk so his peers thought he was trying to be funny when he had no idea about how certain things worked eg not needing to show your passport when you register at a hotel.
First term was hard as many students get to week 4 or 5 and go home for the weekend, but we were in China so this was not possible.

Long time back now, but had I followed up on my parents suggestion and considered oxbridge it would only have happened with scholarships to cover the costs. (wasn't an unreasonable prospect, I just didn't want a gap year as antipodean and bored at school) There are specific sources of funding for international students so don't discount the possibility entirely. Oh, and my sister and I have both ended up in the UK anyway, not born here just three childhood trips ... Our mother will hopefully manage to sell up and move back...

Following as considering for ds. I read that EU British students will be allowed to pay home fees until 2027 - is this right?

Hi all, we are in the same boat here. DD(17) is just about to go into her last year of international A-levels in Spain. She’s been in international schools since arriving 3 years ago. We lived in a British territory before for 4 years though. Having researched university placements in the UK it seems she won’t be entitled to a student loan as you have to have lived in the UK 2 years prior to application. I have however noticed that if she were to apply to Scottish universities she would be classed as an EU student and therefore would only have to pay the same fees as the resident Scottish do. I don’t know if this will change due to brexit but that is how it currently stands. She’s looked at going to Denmark and Sweden also.