Hi All,
I need help in understanding the process of bringing my niece to the UK permanently on the child visa. She is 11 years old. I’ve been doing research on this but couldn’t get any clear cut process. If anyone has personal experience then please share with me.
Simple answer is yes you can however it ain’t going to be that easy. AFAIK any student has to be accepted by a school/university before they can apply for a student VISA. This is called Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies (CAS). Once you have CAS you can apply for VISA which has it’s own set of requirements. Then comes sponsorship stuff.
It’s freaking easy to just get in a dingy and cross the English Channel to land in the UK than through the legal immigration route.
BTW why do you want to bring child to the UK for studies? Schools here are shite and students dumb and arrogant pricks. There is a fair chances that she will end up being a junkie and a bum with no job after graduating. It is too soft here the whole school system, and the entire system. She will not be able to learn to cope with world, specially India, if she grows up in the UK.
Let her study in India and go through the whole shit experience of survival in wild wild India. If she survives and after graduation she can find her own way to any country.
@guru Thanks for such encouraging and enlightened words. I’ve three nieces, sister lives in some town (shit town as you may say 😉 ). Situation there is no good, schools are crap, there are no basic facilities. Their English is a joke. There is no environment for studies. Besides these difficulties I also wanted to say that the district is sort of tribal area so you can get the picture. She can’t move to any other better place so we are kind of stuck with the situation.
My sister works there so she can’t just move to any other place.
I know that bringing my niece to the UK won’t be easy process but I wanted to know from anyone who has done it successfully.
@shankar Ok mate I understand your pain, in other words you are totally screwed 😉 I do not have first hand experience of bringing niece to the UK, I advise you to read more. Your starting point will be Child student VISA which you can find on official website https://www.gov.uk/child-study-visa
Your entry point is to go through the list of schools, filter it by Child Student under Route, contact them to find out their acceptance criteria and then take it from there.
@guru Thanks mate. Yes, I’ve seen that website and that list. It is overwhelming that’s why I came to this forum to find out an easier route if there is any.
Schools here are shite and students dumb and arrogant pricks.
I’ve a son who studies in a state school (Government funded schools). Based on my own experience I can say that most state schools are joke here in the UK. Some are better, few are very good. Private schools are the best ones but getting into them is difficult and not to mention that they can be very expensive, only rich people can afford that.
Since state schools are free you tend to send your child to these schools unless you are super rich.
Government schools in India ain’t any better either and I bet they are same everywhere as well.
Unless your child studies on his own and is sharp or you are taking care of them making sure that their studies are going well, they ain’t going to get educated by state. It is true for any country.
Government schools in India ain’t any better either and I bet they are same everywhere as well.
I studied in a government school in a remote unknown town in India which didn’t exist on the map before Internet arrived. My father taught in the same school. I’ve many friends who studied in government schools. It wasn’t better but there was an environment which makes us study either by ourselves or via tuition or may be it was pressure to study and get better life which makes us excel and boy we excelled so much that we are the top of the world. I know for the fact that from about 50 odds students batch I was the only one who pass with first class in both 10th and 12th but I’m sure there will be few more like me out there. Overall it wasn’t that bad as one may assume.
It was partly down to myself and pressure from parents to study that I ended up in a routine of working hard towards studies and turned up at the top.
If your child is good in studies then with some TLC he will excel. Schools don’t help much. I was in the IIT, some professors were excellent and some were useless. Just being in IIT didn’t help, professors didn’t help much either. We were on our own, environment was good which helped. Same thing applies to any place.
@guru I’m also a graduate from Government school and that too from the UP. What you’ve said is 100% true. Only few excelled from my batch in the school, rest are sitting on “gallas” in the same town. Few went away to bigger cities to try their luck, some ended up in Bombay as usual and may be probably running auto or have joined underworld 😉
I agree that it is the environment and some care which shapes you. Schools don’t help much, teachers can be good or bad but that doesn’t help much either. In my opinion it all comes down to you. If you are really good in studies and eager to learn then you will find a way to perform better. It’s true with anything in life and not just studies.
We got deviated from the OP topic though.
@shankar I’ve no experience with this matter just came here to give my thoughts on the education. Good luck with your search for an easy way for bringing your niece to the UK on child student visa.
Few years back my husband wanted to bring his niece to the UK on child visa to study. He did a lot of research and it proved to be too complex. Not to mention that few is around £10k per year. If you want boarding school then fee starts from £20k. It is too much money and too many restrictions as well. One restriction is that on a child visa only one parent can come and live in the UK with child but that visa requires to be renewed annually. Parents can’t work, can’t do any business etc on that visa. If someone has to much money to spare then why would they come to the UK for just child’s study?
I’m also in the process of brining my niece to the UK to study. I live in London and schools here are so competitive to get into.
While searching I found out that there are many restrictions put by schools and there is no common rules for child visa sponsor.
Some school will only accept foreign student on child visa only if child has been living with parent and not with any relatives in the UK.
You have to go through each school’s rules regarding Tier 4 Student VISA sponsorship conditions.
If I find anything useful then I’ll update here.
