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Humani Member Member # 4170	Posted August 26, 2002 11:49 AM I didn't remember to ask before. Does the government paying tuition fees for university count as government funds, or not, since I never see the money. I think student loan is not government funds, because it's a private company and you pay it back. I didn't think to ask about tuition fees, because I didn't think of it as money. I'm not sure? Who should I ask to be sure? If it's OK about it not being public funds, then the government would pay it all, because since I'm married they only count my husbands income which is zero, cos he'd not allowed to work. If tuition fees counts as a public fund, do I count as a foriegn student, and have to pay like 8000 pounds/year, even though I'm british and always lived in the UK, or would I only have to pay the bit that rich UK people pay, about 1100 pounds/year? Can I get away with paying nothing because I'm not rich, like would happen if my husband was british. I'm a british citizen, but my husband is chinese, so I should be supporting him (or at least my parents supporting us both) without either of us getting public funds.
EuroCitizen Member Member # 2023	Posted August 26, 2002 01:08 PM If you're British, you and your husband will be treated as "home students". That means your income will be assessed and the maximum wou will need to pay would be 1100 pounds. If you still live with you parents and neither you nor your husband is working your parents income will be looked at. Just one question though (and I don't mean to be offending): Why isn't your husband working...I mean he's got every right to do so?!?
EuroCitizen Member Member # 2023	Posted August 26, 2002 01:11 PM To make myself clear: You are British and you are married to a Chinese citizen...so I assume he is here on a spouse visa, right? That gives him any right to work, to go to university as a home student etc.
Humani Member Member # 4170	Posted August 26, 2002 02:02 PM Yes I'm british and my husband is a chinese citizen in the UK and not working, but we are still waiting for his visa, that is the problem. When he gets his visa he can work. The conditions on getting the visa in the first place are no public funds. My university starts again in october, we'll have been married mroe than 1 year, but the home office is so slow they didn't give him a visa yet. So double problem of no visa. he can't work, so we don't have money. Plus we can't get public funds. so if tuition fees is a public fund I'm stuck, because I can't pay. About my parents. In the first 2 years of uni, they had to pay tuition fees for me (1000 pounds), but I still got the full student loan. The local authourity said since i'm married i count as independant of my parents, so they are not expected to pay anything for me, even though my husband is not working. If they had to they would pay. But they can't afford to pay something like 8000 pounds, they are only teachers and have 2 more children.
EuroCitizen Member Member # 2023	Posted August 26, 2002 02:13 PM Get a letter from the HO saying that you have applied for your husband's spouse visa...and present it to your university. They should know what to do...I hope...
Humani Member Member # 4170	Posted August 26, 2002 02:36 PM thanks, I just emailed the local authourity who assess how much help they give you, and who told me before that I'm classed as independnt. I hope they can answer this question too. i don't think the university will be able to answer such questions, because they just rely on the local authourity to decide how much they will pay, and if the local authourity don't pay then they rely on the student. if nobody pays then they throw you out.. least that's what they say, I don't know if it ever happened.