{"id":631,"date":"2011-05-04T10:25:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T09:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/?p=631"},"modified":"2011-05-04T10:25:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T09:25:43","slug":"recent-changes-to-the-tier-4-general-student-visa-for-students-wanting-to-study-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/2011\/05\/recent-changes-to-the-tier-4-general-student-visa-for-students-wanting-to-study-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Changes to the Tier 4 General Student Visa for students wanting to study in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Border Agency have recently announced the following changes for students wishing to study in the UK using the Tier 4 General Student Visas. These changes came into affect on April 21st 2011.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Only Grade A and Highly Trusted Sponsors (such as LSI )\u00a0 will be allowed to issue CAS&#8217;s (confirmation of acceptance for studies)\u00a0to students<\/li>\n<li>School tests and skype interviews will no longer be accepted as proof of level. Students must have a valid exam certificate from the proscribed list, or have taken a Secure English Language Test (SELT) at a recognised exam centre. SELTs will also be made available at some consulates and embassies. The UKBA site have <a title=\"UK Border Agency\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk\/sitecontent\/applicationforms\/new-approved-english-tests.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">more information about the SELTS<\/a>. Level requirement for Tier 4 visas will stay at Intermediate B1, ready to study at B2<\/li>\n<li>Students on Tier 4 visas will no longer be allowed to work in the UK while studying at language schools.<\/li>\n<li>All language schools will have a limited number of CAS\u2019s available for students until April 2012. Therefore, LSI will issue only one CAS to each student.<\/li>\n<li>A new Extended Student Visitor Visa has been introduced for Highly Trusted Sponsors. Language school students will now be able to apply for a Student Visitor Visa for up to 44 weeks at LSI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Border Agency have recently announced the following changes for students wishing to study in the UK using the&nbsp;[&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[30,73,71,75],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lsi-news","tag-lsi-brighton","tag-lsi-cambridge","tag-lsi-london-central","tag-lsi-london-hampstead","post-item clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}