Re-Sitting Exam Visa — Don't Miss the First Available Opportunity

Requirements

A student applying to re-sit examinations must demonstrate that:

• he meets the requirements for admission of a student, or has met the requirements for admission as a student in the previous academic year and continues to meet the requirements; and
  
  
• he has produced written confirmation from the education institution or independent fee paying schools which they attend or attended in the previous academic year that they are required to re-sit an examination; and
  
  
• he has produced an ATAS clearance certificate if the re-sit relates to postgraduate studies in certain designated subjects leading to a Doctorate or Masters by research or a taught Masters degree. A certificate obtained at the time of the last grant of student leave is acceptable provided it continues to remain valid. This requirement does not apply where his student leave was last granted before 30 November 2007; and
  
  
• he can provide satisfactory evidence of regular attendance on any course which he has already begun; or any other course for which he has been enrolled in the past; and
  
  
• not have come to the end of a period of government or international scholarship agency sponsorship, or have the written consent of their official sponsor for a further period of study in the United Kingdom and satisfactory evidence that sufficient sponsorship funding is available; and
  
  
• not have previously been granted leave to re-sit the examination.

Where students are seeking to return to sit one or two subjects, the college sometimes allows them the use of library and other facilities but does not admit them to further classes. Provided that confirmation of these arrangements from the college is produced, and the requirements of the Rules are met, student entry clearance should be issued.

Applicants wishing to sit an examination without having previously followed a period of study in the UK should be treated as visitors.

The period of leave granted will be whatever is sufficient to enable the student to re-sit the exam at the first available opportunity, and will be subject to a condition restricting, but not prohibiting, employment.