Study Visa's

[Fonzy]

So I'm wondering if any1 has any experience with study visa's that might be able to give me some insight?


Myself and my girlfriend both left South Africa in March, I came to live in London (I am lucky enough to have a British passport) and she has gone to work in the Med as a chef on the yacht's. She is on a 2 year shengen visa.

To cut a long story short, we have come out with a rough plan, that she will finish her season at the end of October, and then will have enough money to study at a cooking school that she wants to go to in London, also allowing us to be together. So does any one have any idea how easy it is to get a study visa in the UK?

This might sound really shallow, but this long distance thing is hard enough as it is. If she can't obtain her study visa, she will go back to working on the yacht's untill her shengen visa runs out. She seems to think thats ok, but I am not OK with that. I am finding it hard to be in a relationship, where you only get to see the other person once a month. I kind of want to start making a decission as to where to go from here, if we can't be together in London. We really do love eachother, but this situation that we are in is kinda crap


So yeah, any one that might know anything about study visa's, please give your experience's/advice!

Thanks in advance.

 

[Guantanamo]

I think you have to apply first, and once you have an application accepted by a varsity or whatever you then go and apply for the visa.

 

[Azbubu]

/waits for thread about GF cheating on yacht

 

[zippy]

Study visa's are getting really hard to qualify for in the UK because of the number of people who overstay or exceed the work hours allowed.

I don't think you can get one without proof that you have been accepted at an accredited college/uni in the UK

Google "UK Border Agency study"

Btw, if they find out that she has boyfriend in UK they will more than likely reject her study visa application. Also the study visa now explicitly disqualifies a person from being able to apply for indefinite leave to remain. I.e. she has to leave the UK after the studies are complete.

 

[geezer]

Study Visa's what? Your topic is incomplete. Or did you mean Study Visas, wanting to enquire about the rules pertaining to obtaining one? NEVER use an apostrophe for a plural, except for numbers and letters. Examples:
There are two a's in accommodation.
Your 2's look like your 7's.