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That's awful. Which university?
That's fair enough. A Tier 4 sponsor doesn't have any specific responsibility for a dependant and I wouldn't expect them to be hands-on as they would be with a sponsored student's Admin Review. But it feels like they could have maybe answered OP's basic signposting questions or referred them to immigration legal advice. There is something wrong with the picture when OP is seeking advice online here.Frontier Mole wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2019 10:19 amAs for further help, it is not uncommon for universities to draw the line at helping only their directly sponsored students. The university is not sponsoring dependents, that is entirely up to the student to take forward.
Hence I don’t share the view that international student visa teams at HEIs are In someways at fault for not helping a student dependent.
I work in the sector myself, and I agree with almost everything you say, except the last part above. I agree universities need to step up with their international students, but visa advice is one area that it prioritised and resourced. It's a service for students but also of course sponsors are as invested in a successful visa application as the student is. Across the sector universities are desperate for students to use their in-house visa advice services for Tier 4 issues, not friends or online forums. Picking up the pieces after bad amateur immigration advice is a real nightmare, and sometimes cannot be fixed.Frontier Mole wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2019 10:58 amI have seen a rise in international student self help because of the backing away from the universities. The universities want the fees that international students bring but not the additional issues, especially with the HO looking over they shoulders.