Hi folks,
           First I want to say thanks for the advice you have been giving people seek it from this forum. Wishing you guys a merry christmas and a really splendid new year.
           I'm here with a problem that's sort of difficult to understand. Last year in April I was granted a student visa into the UK. To many people this would be a thing of joy but in my case it came with extreme confusion. This was due to the fact that a month later my dad was given an HSMP visa. I found out that people on the HSMP programme and their dependants don't have to pay fees for schooling. Due to the fact that I am eighteen years of age, I am eligible to be listed as his dependant.

           My problem now is how to get listed as his dependant since it is going to be really expensive to pay the £15,000 school fes for my university after college. Any advice n how I can go about it will surely be appreciated.

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Hi folks,
First I want to say thanks for the advice you have been giving people seek it from this forum. Wishing you guys a merry christmas and a really splendid new year.
I'm here with a problem that's sort of difficult to understand. Last year in April I was granted a student visa into the UK. To many people this would be a thing of joy but in my case it came with extreme confusion. This was due to the fact that a month later my dad was given an HSMP visa. I found out that people on the HSMP programme and their dependants don't have to pay fees for schooling. Due to the fact that I am eighteen years of age, I am eligible to be listed as his dependant.

My problem now is how to get listed as his dependant since it is going to be really expensive to pay the £15,000 school fes for my university after college. Any advice n how I can go about it will surely be appreciated.

I don't know where you got your information about HSMP dependants not having to pay fees for schooling, i think its false. dependant or not, so far you still don't have your stay or ILR, you'ld still have to pay international fees, i think.

You are still eighteen, make sure you apply before you turn nineteen o!, else, you miss chance.

to be a dependant(HSMP), your dad has to apply for entry for you, as a dependant, they should give you three years, though i don't know if that has changed because the home office has changed everything, the law, and points needed, u digg?

but conversion from student to hsmp dependant,,,,,,that i don't know yet, would find out for you soon.

checkout this hsmp forum. http://forum.hsmpforumltd.com/index.php register and post this particular message you posted here there. you'ld surely get a response as there are immigration consultants there.

One of my cousins is an HSMP dependant and she doesn't pay international student fee in Uni of East London, even when she was in college, it was free. . . I think you've got to apply to home office if ur presently in the UK.

could she have gotten her indefinite leave to remain? hsmp dependants are still categorized as international students, for university tuition fees. i am.

cld u pls confirm from her, im uneasy here o

im easy now. check out this document, its either shes gotten her stay or ?
http://www.liv.ac.uk/sas/administration/Fee_Status_FAQs.pdf

I just called, anyone that has been in the UK for three years without a student visa does not pay the International student fees but you are not entitled to the goverment-provided loan that indefinite dudes get.