Get your visa

If you need a visa to study in the UK, allow plenty of time to find out what you need to do, apply for the correct visa, or make any changes needed (if you need to extend your visa or your circumstances change). 

Check the correct visa guidance 

• If you’re a new student, check information on applying for a Student visa.
• If you’re a student who needs to extend or make a change to your visa, visit the visa information page.  
• If you’re a study abroad, exchange or summer school student, visit the visas for study abroad, exchange and summer school students page.  

It’s also important that you’re aware of the visa responsibilities you must comply with to maintain your permission to study in the UK.   

Your Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies (CAS)

Our admissions team will email your CAS to you after you have accepted your unconditional offer.

If you are a Masters student, it will be issued after you have paid your tuition fee deposit or provided your exemption evidence (for sponsored students).

Steps to complete when you arrive in Leeds

When you arrive in Leeds, make sure you know what start-up processes you'll need to complete when you arrive in Leeds.

If you need to collect a Biometric Residence Permit (BRP), please read the BRP collection guidance to find out how to collect your BRP.

All BRPs have been short dated to 31 December 2024. This is because the UK is replacing BRPs with digital eVisas. To get access to your full visa, you will need to set up a UKVI account and get access to your eVisa. If you are an EU, EEA or Swiss national and you applied for your Student visa using the UK Immigration: ID Check app, you will already have a UKVI account and an eVisa.

Student Visa Advice team

Our Student Visa Advice team provide free advice on immigration rules and requirements to current and prospective international students. 

We can help you with the process of applying for your student visa overseas and with extending your visa once you’re in the UK, immigration advice related to working during and after studies, and advice and appeals on visa refusals. Check the relevant advice for more information:

• Pre-arrival visas and immigration information
• Visa information for current students. 

Email the Student Visa Advice team at studentvisaadvice@leeds.ac.uk. So that we can deal with your enquiry, you must provide us with your Student ID number.