{"id":99,"date":"2016-08-09T09:35:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T08:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/?p=99"},"modified":"2016-08-09T10:12:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T09:12:46","slug":"post-registration-change-of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/2016\/08\/09\/post-registration-change-of-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-registration change of course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Are you currently studying at Kent on a Tier 4 visa and considering changing courses? If this is the case, you should be aware that the Immigration Rules changed on 6 April 2016 which impact\u00a0the ability to switch courses whilst studying on a Tier 4 visa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">If you have not successfully completed the course for which your visa was originally granted you may be able to switch courses, subject to approval by the University, but you may have to apply for a new visa first from outside the UK before you can start on your new course. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">To find out more about changes to the Immigration Rules and how this may impact you please refer to the following web resources:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration\/during-your-studies\/changes-to-studies\/changing-course.html\"><span style=\"color: #0563c1;font-family: Calibri\">University of Kent, Student Immigration \u2013 changing your course<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukcisa.org.uk\/Information--Advice\/Visas-and-Immigration\/Protecting-your-Tier-4-status#RL\"><span style=\"color: #0563c1;font-family: Calibri\">UKCISA, Protecting your Tier 4 status \u2013 study conditions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> (click on &#8216;Tier 4 Conditions&#8217;, then click on\u00a0\u2018Study\u2019 which will provide more information about changing courses)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you currently studying at Kent on a Tier 4 visa and considering changing courses? If this is the case, you should be aware that the Immigration Rules changed on 6 April 2016 which impact\u00a0the ability to switch courses whilst &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/2016\/08\/09\/post-registration-change-of-course\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40531,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[167389,167388],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"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\/40531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentimmigration-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}