Students on courses lasting over a year are usually given until ______ to leave

Presenter: Hello everyone. I’m here to talk to you about extending your leave to remain in the UK. Let me just check that you are all from outside the European Economic Area. If you are from the EEA, this information does not apply to you. OK. Let’s begin.
  The very first thing to do is to take note of the date that your entry
clearance is valid until, or the date that your ’leave to remain’ in the UK
will run out. This is the date when your current permission to be in the UK
will expire. By this date you should either leave the UK or extend your
permission to be here. As a part of the initiative to attract more international
students to the UK, many international students are now given permission to
be in the UK for the full period of study. Students on courses of 12 months
or more that end during the summer will usually be given permission to be in
the UK until 31st October. Students on courses that do not follow the usual      Q11
autumn to summer pattern will usually be given a period that includes two
months at the end of the course, for packing up and making arrangements to
leave.
  However, some students are not given permission to be here for the
whole of their course at the very beginning. If this has happened to you,
you will have to apply for an extension of your permission to be here. Start
preparing for the application about two months before your permission runs
out. However, you should not normally make the application until one month
before your permission runs out. To apply to stay longer in the UK, you         Q12
must take or send certain documents to the Home Office. The Home Office
is the name we give to what people in most other countries call the Interior
Ministry. They must be the originals and not photocopies.                     Q13
  Which documents do you need to send? Your completed application
form—form FLRS. Your passport and passports for each dependant, if they      Q14
are applying to extend their stay in the UK with you. If your passport shows
that you are required to register with the police, you must also send your
Police Registration Certificate and Certificates for each dependant, if they
are applying to extend their stay in the UK with you. You also need to send              Q15
a letter from your college or university stating that you are still enrolled on
a full-time course of study, or that you will be beginning another one. Bank
statements covering the past three months, or other evidence that you have
enough money to continue to pay your fees and maintain yourself and any
dependants. A recent passport-sized photograph of yourself and similar         Q16
photos of any of your dependants aged 16 or over, if they are applying to
extend their stay in the UK with you.
   FLRS stands for Further Leave to Remain Student. To get this form,
you can download it from the Home Office website or ask at your college      Q17
or university. When you are preparing to fill out the form, it is a good
idea to read the Guidance Notes. You could also ask a student adviser or
welfare officer at your institution for help. Now, where should you send
your application? You can only send your application by post. Send your
documents to: FLRS, Immigration and Nationality Directorate, Sunshine
House, 28 Wellington Road, London, W1A 2BY. Send your documents by
recorded delivery and keep the receipt, as well as photocopies of everything      Q18
you send. You can expect to wait at least four weeks and sometimes
considerably longer before a decision on the application is made.
  I have some good news about the application deadline. According to
new regulations, even if you do not have all these documents available, you
must still make sure that you apply before your current permission to be in
the UK expires. Enclose as many of the documents as you have and include
a letter explaining what is missing, why it is missing and when you will be
able to send it to the Home Office. You will then be considered to have made
your application in time. If your permission to be in the UK has already
expired, contact either a student adviser or welfare officer at your college or
university or the Immigration Advisory Service on their 24-hour emergency      Q19
line 011 7378 9191 or via their website—www, iasuk, org. Please note that if
you do make a late application, and the application is refused, you cannot
appeal against that decision.
  If your application was made in time and if your application is refused,
you will receive a letter from the Home Office telling you why. The letter
will also tell you whether or not you have the right to appeal against the
decision. If you made your original application in good time—before your
current leave to remain had expired—then you should automatically be given
the right to appeal. If you have the right to appeal, you will only have a few
days in which to exercise this right. You should therefore ask for professional      Q20
advice about the appeal process as soon as possible from a lawyer, a student
adviser or welfare officer at your college or university or the Immigration
Advisory Service.