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Protecting your visa

How to make sure your studies are unaffected by any visa related problems.

Please make sure you read and understand the University of Reading’s Institutional Compliance Policy. By working together, we can try to ensure that your studies are unaffected by any visa related problems, which can have very serious consequences and may affect your leave to remain in the UK.

Download the following policies ad agreements:

  • Institutional Home Office Compliance Policy
  • Tier 4 Student - Important Information
  • Tier 4 Work Placement agreement
Advice on protecting your Tier 4 visa
Please remember the following information before and after you arrive in the UK:
  • Arrange your UK bank accounts as soon as you are able. When doing this ask for paper monthly bank statements.
  • Make sure you bring over all original documents that you may need for a visa extension and make sure they are translated into English by a qualified translator.
  • Keep up to date photocopies of your passport.
  • Make sure you understand your working rights and limits during your studies.
  • Read the UKCISA Protecting your Tier 4 status information
  • Specific immigration information for Postgraduate Research Students
Other useful sources of information:
  • The UK Government website

Go to the International homepage

Contact the International Student Advisory team

Find us: International Student Advisory Team, Carrington Building, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, RG6 6UA
Email (all queries): int.adv@reading.ac.uk
Email (immigration and visa queries): immigration@reading.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0)118 378 8038

Compliance Policy

Institutional Home Office Compliance Policy 2024/25

Visa and immigration

- Apply for a visa outside the UK
- Apply for a visa within the UK
- Make a visa advice appointment
- Health and EEA nationals
- Student immigration: the basics
- Travelling and your UK visa
- Protecting your visa
- Biometric Residence Permit
- Your visa and working in the UK
- Immigration and visa updates

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