Students in their first year of study may be permitted to restart University the following year on a different course if they find their first choice was not the right one for them.

Students allowed to restart will be treated as new students when they return. This means that once you have decided to re-start on a different course, part way through your first year of studies or at the end of Year 1, you will need to submit the request via Student Records Online.

Once you have been accepted onto the new course, and completed the re-starting paperwork, you will be permanently withdrawn from your current course and this will be reported to the UKVI. Please check our guidance on permanent withdrawal. You will then be expected to return to your country of residence, or, if you are eligible to do so, switch to a different visa category/a new sponsor if you are to remain in the UK.

About 3 months before the start date of your new course, you will be contacted by the Student Records Team advising that your registration has been restarted.

Therefore, if you have not switched to a different visa category within the UK, that will grant you the Right to Study your new course, you will need to have left the UK by your UKVI Curtailment Date, if you did not switch to an immigration category that allowed you to remain in the UK

The UKVI can action a curtailment following a Permanent Withdrawal Report at any time, therefore, we advise that you should aim to leave the UK within 60 days of the Report Date, or, apply to switch categories, if eligible to do so, within 60 days of the Report Date.

If you did switch categories, but your new immigration category does not grant the Right to Study your restart course:

You must leave the UK in good time to make an Overseas Student Visa application and return by your course Start Date.

Overseas applications can take up to 6 weeks to complete.

Because you will be a new student on your new course, the CAS for your new application will be issued by the relevant admissions team.

If you have resits in September:

Your Exam Board will usually sit before your current Student Visa expires.

Therefore, if you pass your resits, your degree should be conferred and the required report sent to the UKVI before your current student visa expires.

You then have from the report date to your Student Visa Expiry Date to submit your Graduate Route application.

The University of Warwick cannot send the required successful completion report to the UKVI until your degree is conferred.

If you have resits, it is likely that your next exam board after the November Exam Board will be in July.

Some departments may set up special Exam Boards for resits in January, therefore, you should contact your department to confirm the following dates:

1. Resubmission Deadline, and/or, Resit Dates
2. New Course End Date
3. New Exam Board Date.

During their first year of study, students may be permitted to restart their course in the following academic year if their first attempt has been affected by issues beyond their control (e.g. if medical problems or personal factors negatively affected their ability to study).

Students allowed to restart will be treated as new students when they return.

This means that once you have decided to re-start your course, part way through your first year of studies or at the end of Year 1, you will need to submit the request via Student Records Online.

Once your restart has been approved by Student Records, and the restart paperwork has been completed, you will be permanently withdrawn from your current course.

If you have been coded as Resit Without Residence (RWR), and you have submitted an appeal, the process for the RWR continues, regardless of your appeal status.

Therefore, you should follow the guidance provided in the relevant sections above, with regards to UG or PGT Resits.

Your appeal outcome will be one of the following:

a) To reject the appeal and uphold the original assessment decision;

OR

b) To uphold the appeal and recommend to the relevant Board of Examiners, or in the case of Postgraduate Research the relevant examiners that, for reasons stated in the Committee’s report, the Board should reconsider its decision.

Depending on the timeframe involved in an appeal, you may have to make a new Student Visa Application from outside of the UK to return to your studies.

Therefore you should contact us for further guidance once your Appeal outcome is known.

If you have been given Resits as an outcome of your November Exam Board, then depending on your scenario, the following applies:

You should contact your department to discuss your situation and confirm that they are allowing completion from overseas.

If they allow you to complete your resits overseas, you must:

• • ensure that you have left the UK by your current visa expiry date - you will need to provide proof of departure from the UK to Student Immigration.

You will no longer be eligible to apply for the Graduate Route in this scenario.

If you have been given an Academic Extension to Resubmit as an outcome of your November Exam Board, then depending on your scenario, the following applies:

You should contact your department to discuss your situation and confirm that they are allowing completion from overseas.

If they allow you to complete your resits overseas, you must:

• • ensure that you have left the UK by your current visa expiry date - you will need to provide proof of departure from the UK to us.

You will no longer be eligible to apply for the Graduate Route in this scenario.

The University of Warwick can only sponsor a Student Visa where there is academic engagement every 60 days.

Therefore if you are placed on a period of Resit Without Residence, you would normally be expected to spend your Resit without Residence period outside of the UK, unless you are able to switch into another immigration category which would allow you to remain in the UK.

The University of Warwick will send a Report to the UKVI to notify them that we have stopped sponsoring your visa due to your period of Resit Without Residence - You will receive an email notification of this report being sent.

You should aim to leave the UK, or, if you are eligible to do so, switch visa categories, within 60 days of the date the Report was sent

This is because the UKVI can curtail your visa at any point from the Report Date, and the earliest curtailment date you can receive will be within 60 days of the Report Date.

Therefore, once you leave the UK you should not attempt to re-enter using your Student Visa, as this break in study will have been reported to the Home Office UK Visas & Immigration and it is likely that action will have been taken to cancel your leave.

If you are required to return to the UK to take your resit exam(s) then you will need to obtain appropriate immigration permission which permits study as you will not be able to use your original Student Visa since this will have been curtailed by the Home Office.

If you have been granted Academic Extension, you are able to extend your Student Visa to cover your new period of extension.

You can make a student visa application within the UK if:

• The extension is to enable you to complete the PhD or other doctoral qualification for which study was undertaken in the last grant of student visa, and

• You have received an email confirmation from the Student Records team confirming the approval of your academic extension.

If you are eligible and decide to make this application within the UK, you must submit the application before your current visa expiry date.

You can also make this student visa application outside of the UK, and after your visa expiry date if you have no other choice, as long as you leave the UK before your current visa expiry date.

This will depend on where you are on your PhD Journey.

Your CAS End Date will be generated as per the rules in the table below.

If your application is successful, the UKVI will add their 4-month "wrap-up" period to the CAS End Date, and this should be your new Visa Expiry Date.