Is my fee status correct?

If you have any concerns about the outcome of your fee status assessment, or your immigration circumstances change and you believe that this may affect your fee status, please follow the steps below.  

1. Please refer to the UKCISA (UK Council for International Affairs) website for the most up-to-date fee status information. The Home or Overseas pages provide detailed insights into the assessment process used by UK universities, including the criteria for determining Home or Overseas status. You’ll also find links to the current Fee Status Regulations that underpin the fee assessment process.

2. After reviewing the UKCISA guidance, if you still believe your fee status has been incorrectly assessed, please contact the appropriate University or College office from the list below to request a review of your fee status. If the office has already reviewed your status, please do not apply for a second review unless your personal circumstances have changed, or you have new documentation that could significantly affect your assessment:

3. If you are still dissatisfied with the outcome of your review, please refer to the information below.

Before you can request a Fee Status Appeal

Your fee status must be reviewed by your Admitting Body before you can request an appeal. Undergraduates (current and offer holders) at Christ's College and Lucy Cavendish College should contact their College's Admissions Office to request a fee status review. Undergraduates at all other Colleges should request a fee status review by the central University by submitting a completed Fee Status Assessment Questionnaire and supporting documentary evidence (listed in the questionnaire) to feestatusandpolicy@admin.cam.ac.uk. 

For postgraduates, your Admitting Body will be the Postgraduate Admissions Office, Professional and Continuing Education, Faculty of Education, Judge Business School, Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership, or the Department of Engineering depending on your course.

Fee Status Appeal Process

The fee status appeal process applies to all applicants and current students, both undergraduate and postgraduate.

  1. You must submit your Appeal within 15 working days of being notified of the outcome of the fee status review by your Admitting Body. This deadline may only be extended in the event of exceptional circumstances, such as illness.
  2. The grounds for a Fee Status Appeal are:
    • based on evidence previously submitted, you consider the fee status decision to be incorrect; and/or
    • procedural irregularities have occurred, which were material or potentially material to the decision reached; and/or
    • your Admitting Body or the Student Registry have advised you to submit a formal Appeal to the University.
  3. You must complete the Fee Status Assessment Appeal submission form and submit all supporting evidence. The form and supporting evidence will then be submitted to the University Appeal Panel.
  4. A meeting of the Appeal Panel will be arranged to take place within 15-20 working days of receipt of the form and supporting evidence.
  5. The Panel will email you to acknowledge receipt of the form and supporting evidence, and to explain that a reply will be issued within 20 working days.
  6. You cannot submit further supporting evidence once the form has been submitted, unless the Appeal Panel requests further information to reach its decision.
  7. The Panel will only accept a submission from the student / applicant yourself and will only reply to correspondence from you directly, unless you give express written consent that a third party is representing you, for example, a parent or legal representative.
  8. The Panel’s decision will be made within the legal framework of the Education (Fees and Awards) (England) 2007 Regulations, as amended, and the Higher Education (Fee Limit Condition) (England) Regulations 2017, as amended.
  9. The Panel should reach a decision within 20 working days of the request (form and supporting evidence) being received. In some instances, this may not be possible. Such instances include:
    • the need to seek further legal advice
    • the availability of Panel members, particularly during the vacation period
    • absence of Panel members.
  10. If a decision is likely to be delayed, this should be communicated to you.

  11. The Panel will make one of two decisions: the fee status will either be:

    • Home or
    • Overseas.

    There is no other option available to the Panel.

  12. The Panel’s decision is final. There is no further recourse to appeal within the University.
  13. If the Panel decides that your fee status is Home, you must be made aware that the Student Loans Company may not make the same decision.

All appeal correspondence, including the appeal submission form and supporting documents, should be sent to the University's Fee Policy Manager at feestatusappeals@admin.cam.ac.uk 

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