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Well, a student visa is for studying first and working PT second. The advice you got is therefore totally wrong. If she drops out then her visa is no longer valid. Bear in mind that her college/university has a legal (?) obligation to inform the BIA that she is not longer attending classes. She can get herself in trouble...she probably already is in trouble, since it's been over 5 months of non-attendance. I'd advice her to seriously re-think her dropping out (isn't that a waste of money anyway, and she's only waitressing?), try to re-enter school and if not, then simply return home. If they find out she isn't studying, then they'd assume she's a scammer and..well I don't know exactly what'll happen, but she does need to leave the country if she no longer wants to study.RR wrote:Hi there,
There's this girl who came here from the USA on a student VISA last September. On January 1st of this year she quit college and continued working the allowed 20 hours in her waitressing job.
Did the student visa become invalidated when she quit college? I've been advised by a friend that she can remain for the two years stated on her passport, but I have no idea as to the certainty of that.
She hasn't been contacted by the Home Office at her last known address at all and it's been a good while since the beginning of January.
Just checking up really to mkae sure she's not in trouble.
She's an overstayer and and illegal worker. If she gets caught she'll find it hard to gain future entry to UK and will need to formally apply for a UK visitor visa ie no visa waiver. So no easy return.RR wrote:Hmm, scary news.
If it's invalidated does that mean she's classed as an 'illegal immigrant'? What if she stops working until she returns?
It is not clear that leaving the country is what she should be doing. Don't think you are in a position to order anyone to leave the country. RR is right to try and solicit our opinions.SYH wrote:Stop forcing us to speculate, just get your act together and leave the country as soon as possible.
Well, she's broken the rules for a good five months now, I don't think the HO would want her to mull things over before deciding on what to do. They check people's NI cards now, don't they? She needs to "sort herself" out by leaving the country, to be honest. She doesn't sound like she intends to stay on studying, and if her educational institution was a properly established and bona-fide one, they would have told the HO about her long ago. It is not the same as wanting to study but not having the fees available like your friend. She had paid. She didn't attend class. She just continued to work. So she broke the rules of her STUDENT visa by not being a STUDENT.William Blake wrote:It is not clear that leaving the country is what she should be doing. Don't think you are in a position to order anyone to leave the country. RR is right to try and solicit our opinions.SYH wrote:Stop forcing us to speculate, just get your act together and leave the country as soon as possible.
I know of a girl who was deregistered from the University for five months because her fees were late in arriving from her home country. She was doing a research degree and continued to work on her own until the money arrived and she re-regeistered and went on to complete her phd.
Tell your friend to relax. She just needs to sort herself out and decide what she wants to do. She may need to switch courses and as far as I know that is a perfectly legitimate thing to do. Once she decides what to do then do it. I don't see any point in informing Home Office of anything until she is sure of what it is she intends to do.
She pretty much got the information. First she checks is what she is doing wrong. It is. Then she tries to work around it by offering as some kind of consolation by not working. Cmon now. then she started going down another route about implications. She keeps trying to push the issue when it is quite clear, she is in violation. I didn't order her out of the country although the consensus is she shouldn't be here as she is in violation of her visa terms. I did suggest she get her act together so that does entail seeing a solicitor, although most people on the forum are trying to avoid doing just that so I doubt that she will do it.William Blake wrote:It is not clear that leaving the country is what she should be doing. Don't think you are in a position to order anyone to leave the country. RR is right to try and solicit our opinions.SYH wrote:Stop forcing us to speculate, just get your act together and leave the country as soon as possible.
I know of a girl who was deregistered from the University for five months because her fees were late in arriving from her home country. She was doing a research degree and continued to work on her own until the money arrived and she re-regeistered and went on to complete her phd.
Tell your friend to relax. She just needs to sort herself out and decide what she wants to do. She may need to switch courses and as far as I know that is a perfectly legitimate thing to do. Once she decides what to do then do it. I don't see any point in informing Home Office of anything until she is sure of what it is she intends to do.