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Check your eligibility for funding below if: You are not a citizen of the UK or EU/EEA and/or, Have not been resident in the UK and islands or the European Union or Economic Area, continuously for at least the previous 3 years on the first day of your course.
Individuals will be eligible for ESFA funded AEB if they meet the criteria in paragraph 27, the learning is taking place in England, and they:
The EEA includes all the countries and territories listed in Annex A.
The eligibility of individuals who do not meet the requirements in paragraph 36 is stated below.
Any learner or relevant family member who has applied for an extension or variation of their current immigration permission in the UK is still treated as if they have that leave. This only applies if the application was made before their current permission expired. Their leave continues until the Home Office decides on their immigration application. Their leave will continue where they have appealed or sought an administrative review of their case within the time allowed to them for doing so.
You can find further information on eligibility from the UK Council for International Student Affairs.
The learner's immigration permission in the UK may have a "No recourse to public funds" condition. Public funds do not include education or education funding. Therefore, this does not affect a learner's eligibility, which must be decided under the normal eligibility conditions.
A non-EEA citizen is eligible for funding if they have permission granted by the UK government to live in the UK, which is not for educational purposes, and have been ordinarily resident in the UK for at least the previous 3 years before the start of learning.
Asylum seekers are eligible to receive funding if they:
An individual who has been refused asylum will be eligible if:
Any individual with any of the statuses listed below is eligible to receive funding and are exempt from the 3-year residency requirement rule:
In the explanations below, the "principal" is the European Union (EU) or EEA national. The "family" or "family member" is the learner, and must be the husband, wife, civil partner, child, grandchild, dependent parent or grandparent of the "principal."
If the learner, who is a family member of an EEA national, has been ordinarily resident in the EEA for the 3 years prior to the start of their course, they are eligible for funding.
This table shows the eligibility for family members if:
Principal Ordinarily Resident in the EEA for Three Years | ||||
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Family Member | EU (Including UK Citizen) | Non-EU EEA Citizen | Non-EEA Citizen | |
Family member not ordinarily resident in the EEA for three years | EU (Including UK Citizen) | Eligible | Eligible | Not eligible |
Non-EU EEA Citizen | Eligible | Not eligible | Not eligible | |
Non-EEA Citizen | Eligible | Not eligible | Not eligible |
A child of a Turkish worker is eligible if both the following apply:
A person granted stateless leave is a person who:
A stateless person must:
Certain family members are also eligible under this category if:
You must not claim funding for individuals who do not meet the eligibility criteria set out above. Examples of individuals who do not meet the eligibility criteria include:
We will fund armed forces personnel, Ministry of Defence (MoD) personnel, or civil and crown servants resident in England, who meet the criteria in paragraph 27, and where learning takes place in England. We will class members of the British armed forces on postings outside of the EU, including their family members, as ordinarily resident in the UK.
Members of other nations' armed forces stationed in England, and their family members, aged 19 and over, are eligible for ESFA funded AEB, as set out in paragraph 27, if the armed forces individual has been ordinarily resident in England for 3 years. We will not fund family members that remain outside of England.
Last updated, 14th July 2020 @ 7:21am.
Due to the Red weather warning for the region linked to Storm Darragh, the decision has been made to close our WISE campus on Saturday 7 December. All people affected by the cancellation of events at WISE on Saturday will be contacted in due course. Please note, the campus will open as normal on Sunday 8 December. We apologise for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.
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