In most cases, a student's fee status will not change once it has been assessed at the point that an offer has been made. However, a small number of circumstances or 'Qualifying Events' allow a student to switch from Overseas to Home fee status from the start of the academic year following the Qualifying Event. This applies to current students and to offer holders whose immigration status changes during the interval between an offer being made and the start of their course. An individual holding an offer of a deferred place will have more time in which to obtain the necessary immigration status (if eligible) for Home fees.
If your circumstances change in one or more of the following ways, you may ask your Admissions or Tutorial Office to review your fee status - it will not happen automatically. Note that 'family member' refers to a spouse or parent/legal guardian:
- you, or a family member, become a UK national
- you, or a family member, become an EU national with settled status
- you become an Irish national
- you are a family member of a person holding settled status in the UK on the start date of your course, and who will be living in the UK on the first day of the academic year during which you are hoping to pay Home fees.
- you are a family member of a non-British citizen who has been serving in the British armed forces since the start date of your course
- you, or a family member, are an EEA migrant worker, an EEA frontier worker, EEA self employed person or EEA self-employed person
- you, or a family member, are a Swiss employed or self employed person, or a Swiss frontier employed or self employed person
- you are a child of a Swiss national
- you, or your family member, are granted leave to remain in the UK with Humanitarian Protection or stateless leave*
- you are granted section 67 leave or Calais leave*
- you are a refugee or their spouse, civil partner or child*
- you have been granted Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) as a bereaved partner or victim of domestic violence or abuse*
- you have been granted leave to remain in the UK under one of the Afghan Schemes*
- you, or your family member, have been granted leave to remain in the UK under one of the Ukraine Schemes - please click here for more information.
* Where one of these immigration statuses is awarded after the start of a course, it does not matter whether a student’s presence in the UK on the day on which the first term of the first academic year actually began was lawful or not.
With the exception of those 'Qualifying Events' marked with a *, a change of circumstances will only result in a change of fee status if the student met the 3 year ordinary residency requirements at the start of their course.
Please note that obtaining Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) part-way through a course is not sufficient for a student to switch to Home fee status, as there is a requirement for the student to be 'settled' before the first day of the first academic year of your course.
Integrated Courses
A number of the University's degree courses offer undergraduates the opportunity to study for an optional 4th year (Part IIB or Part III, depending on the course structure) of their Tripos if they fulfil the academic requirements. In these cases, the student does not graduate at the end of their 3rd year and instead, progresses onto a 4th year. Part III and Part IIB are considered to be integrated Masters courses and therefore a fee status assessment would not be undertaken prior to the start of the student's 4th year. A change in fee status would only take place if the student believed that they now fell under one of the categories listed above.
Intercalated Courses
As with students studying for an Integrated Course, students who are undertaking an intercalated course in another subject part-way through their substantive degree course would not be eligible for a fee status assessment at the start of their intercalation. A change in fee status would only take place in the event of a change in circumstances which meant that the student now fell under one of the categories listed above.