The UK Department of Education announces a new category to access ‘home’ fee status and financial support from Student Finance England to those who are granted leave under one of the schemes for Ukrainians introduced recently by the Home Office.
You would not be required to meet a three- year period of ordinary residency, but would need only to have been ordinarily resident in the UK since your grant of leave.
This category is for any academic year that starts on/after 1 August 2022. This means you can use the category for all the academic years that start on/after 1 August 2022, even if you paid 'overseas' fees for an earlier year of the same course.
In order to qualify for 'home' fees under this category, you must meet all of the following criteria:
(A) On the first day of the academic year you are paying fees for, you must be a person with any one of these five types of leave:
1. Leave to remain granted under the immigration rules for the Ukraine Extension Scheme.
2. Leave to enter or leave to remain granted under the immigration rules for the Ukraine Family Scheme.
3. Leave to enter or leave to remain granted under the Ukraine Family Scheme, but outside the immigration rules. If you have this third type of leave, these two bullet points must also both be true:
- you were residing in Ukraine immediately before 1 January 2022; and
- you left Ukraine in connection with the Russian invasion.
4. Leave to enter or leave to remain granted under the immigration rules for the Homes for Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme.
5. Leave to enter or leave to remain granted under the Homes for Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme, but outside the immigration rules. If you have this fifth type of leave, these two bullet points must also both be true:
- you were residing in Ukraine immediately before 1 January 2022; and
- you left Ukraine in connection with the Russian invasion.
AND
(B) You must have been ordinarily resident in the UK and Islands since you were granted such leave; and
(C) You must be ordinarily resident in the UK on the first day of the first academic year of the course.
Please note, if you are granted one of the five types of leave after the start of the course, you will be entitled to ‘home’ fees from the start of the next academic year, if you meet the requirements above.
Further details can be found here.
For further questions, please contact studentfinance@greenwich.ac.uk.
