How to complete your identity check

• You will receive an email inviting you to collect your student card. 
• If you have an approved student loan, we will notify the Student Loan Company to allow your payments to be released as scheduled. 

• You will receive an email invitation to collect your Biometric Residence Permit (BRP) and student card – please note this may take around a week. 
• If you already have your BRP or are not studying on a Tier 4/student visa, you will receive an email invitation to collect your student card. 
• Distance/off-campus learners can apply for their student card remotely.

When completing the identity check you will need to upload an image of your passport information page.

If you do not have a passport and you have a loan approved with the Student Loans Company you can upload an image of a UK Driving Licence (provisional or full licence).    

If you do not have a passport and you are not receiving student finance from the Student Loans Company you will need to upload an image of your birth/adoption certificate with a completed Identification Verification form.

When completing the identity check you will need to upload an image of your passport information page or an image of the front and back of your national ID card.

Share Code – Obtain your share code by visiting the GOV.UK view and prove your immigration status site. Please make sure you choose ‘something else’ as the option when asked for the purpose of the check, this will ensure the share code is for Right to Study, not for Right to Work or Right to rent.  

You will receive a digital visa if you used the ‘UK Immigration: ID Check’ app to complete your visa application.

When completing the identity check you will need to upload:

• An image of your passport information page.
• Your Share Code. You can get your share code by visiting the GOV.UK view and prove your immigration status site. Please make sure you choose ‘something else’ as the option when asked for the purpose of the check, this will ensure the share code is for Right to Study, not for Right to Work or Right to rent.    
• An image of your Grant/Decision email issued to you by UKVI. This will contain your visa restrictions and sponsor details.   
• Evidence of the date you entered the UK. For example, an entry stamp in your passport, boarding pass or plane ticket.   

If you were already in the UK when you applied for your current student visa we do not need to see evidence of your date of entry.   

Check your BRP collection location – You can check your BRP collection location in the payment section of your online visa application.

If you applied for your visa outside of the UK, your BRP collection location may be on your UKVI decision letter.   

You will receive a BRP if you did not use the ‘UK Immigration: ID Check’ app to make your visa application, or if you are a national of one of the countries on the UKVI Visa National list, and are in the UK for more than six months.   

Find out more about BRP collections.

You will need to upload:

• An image of your passport information page.   
• An image of your vignette (travel visa) that has been stamped at the UK border. If your vignette was not stamped because you used an e-gate at the UK border please upload your vignette and proof of the date you entered the UK. For example, a boarding pass or plane ticket. Your date of arrival in the UK needs to be within the valid period of your travel vignette.   

If your current visa (BRP) states ‘Leave to Remain’ you will not have an associated vignette and do not need to upload a vignette for the ID check.  

Check your BRP collection location – You can check your BRP collection location in the payment section of your online visa application.

If you applied for your visa outside of the UK, your BRP collection location may be on your UKVI decision letter.   

You will receive a BRP if you did not use the ‘UK Immigration: ID Check’ app to make your visa application, or if you are a national of one of the countries on the UKVI Visa National list, and are in the UK for more than six months.   

Find out more about BRP collections.

You will need to upload:

• An image of your passport information page.   
• An image of your vignette (travel visa) that has been stamped at the UK border. If your vignette was not stamped because you used an e-gate at the UK border please upload your vignette and proof of the date you entered the UK. For example, a boarding pass or plane ticket. Your date of arrival in the UK needs to be within the valid period of your travel vignette.   
• An image of the front and back of BRP. You will need to collect your BRP before completing the online ID check form.

Please note that if your current visa (BRP) states ‘Leave to Remain’ you will not have an associated vignette and do not need to upload a vignette for the ID check.  

You will need to upload:

• An image of your passport information page.   
• An image of your Visitor or Student Visa that has been stamped at the UK border. If your visa was not stamped because you used an e-gate at the UK border please upload your visa and proof of the date you entered the UK. For example, a boarding pass or plane ticket.

Or

• If you are not required to apply for a visa before entering the UK for six months or less, an image of the stamp you received at the UK border. If you did not receive an entry stamp because you used an e-gate at the UK border please upload proof of the date you entered the UK. For example, a boarding pass or plane ticket.  

Or

• An image of your Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA). Your ETA email and the stamp you received at the UK border. 

If you are a PBS Dependant, Short Term Study, Indefinite Leave to Remain, Refugee, Asylum seeker, Settlement, Hong Kong BNO, Skilled Worker (previously Tier 2) you will need to upload:

• An image of your passport information page. Or, if you do not have a passport, your travel document.
• An image of your stamped vignette (travel visa) that has been stamped at the UK border. If your vignette was not stamped because you used an e-gate at the UK border please upload your vignette and proof of the date you entered the UK. For example, a boarding pass or plane ticket.   
• An image of your current immigration permission, for example a visa vignette or front and back of your BRP. 

Or

• Provide your Share Code. You can get your share code by visiting the GOV.UK view and prove your immigration status site. Please make sure you choose ‘something else’ as the option when asked for the purpose of the check, this will ensure the share code is for Right to Study, not for Right to Work or Right to rent.    

If your current visa (BRP) states ‘Leave to Remain’ you will not have an associated vignette and do not need to upload a vignette for the ID check.  

You will need to upload:

• An image of your passport information page.
• An image of the front and back of your BRP. If you did not have a BRP for your most recent visa, then please provide a copy of your visa or your eVisa Share Code. 
• An image of your stamped vignette (travel visa) that has been stamped at the UK border. If your vignette was not stamped because you used an e-gate at the UK border please upload your vignette and proof of the date you entered the UK. For example, a boarding pass or plane ticket.
• Your visa application submitted with unique application reference number as the proof of visa application made while waiting for the UKVI decision or a copy of the UKVI successful decision email while waiting for new BRP to be delivered  

If your current visa (BRP) states ‘Leave to Remain’ you will not have an associated vignette and do not need to upload a vignette for the ID check.