{"id":12,"date":"2015-05-14T11:30:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T10:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/?p=12"},"modified":"2015-05-14T11:30:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T10:30:22","slug":"immigration-health-surcharge-ihs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/2015\/05\/14\/immigration-health-surcharge-ihs\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 115%;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">New regulations introduced by the UK Government as part of the Immigration Act 2014 mean that from 6 April 2015 students applying for a new Tier 4 visa\/visa extension and coming to\/remaining in the UK for 6 months or longer will be required to pay an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/healthcare-immigration-application\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Arial\">immigration health surcharge<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> as part of their visa application fee. This fee is mandatory, with the exception of certain exemptions, and your visa application may be refused or rejected if you do not pay it or pay an incorrect amount for your stay. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 115%;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Please refer to our <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/internationalstudent\/fees-and-funding\/health-surcharge.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Arial\">website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> which contains further information on the immigration health surcharge. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New regulations introduced by the UK Government as part of the Immigration Act 2014 mean that from 6 April 2015 students applying for a new Tier 4 visa\/visa extension and coming to\/remaining in the UK for 6 months or longer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/2015\/05\/14\/immigration-health-surcharge-ihs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}