If their licence expires, is revoked or is surrendered
If a Tier 4 sponsor’s licence expires or is revoked, or surrendered all CAS issued by that
sponsor will become invalid.
Your situation
What will happen
You have a CAS but have not yet applied to come to the UK
Your CAS will become invalid and you will not be able to use it to apply for a student visa to come to the United Kingdom. Any
applications made using an invalid CAS will be refused.
You have a CAS and have applied to come to the UK
Your CAS will become invalid and you will not be able to use it to apply for a student visa to come to the United Kingdom. Any
applications made using an invalid CAS will be refused.
You have entry clearance but have not travelled to the UK
If you have been given permission to come to the UK but you have not travelled to the UK, your permission to come is cancelled
You have travelled to the UK
If you travel to the UK you will not be allowed to enter.
Tier 4 Policy Guidance version 11/2014 page 64 of 81
If you have applied to extend your leave in the UK
If your Tier 4 sponsor’s licence is revoked, your CAS will become
invalid.
If the only ground for refusing your application is that your
CAS has become invalid following the revocation of your Tier 4
sponsor’s licence, we will give you 60 days to regularise your stay
or to leave the UK.
If there are other grounds for refusing your application (including where you have not been a bona fide student at your institution or you have participated in the practices that may have contributed
to your Tier 4 sponsor’s licence being revoked or surrendered), we may refuse your application and limit any existing permission to stay that you may have.
If you are already in the UK studying and do not have an application under consideration with the Home Office
We may limit your existing permission to stay:
• to 60 days provided you have been a bona fide student
at your institution and you have not participated in
the practices that may have contributed to your Tier 4 sponsor’s licence being revoked or surrendered. You may want to apply for permission to stay with another Tier 4 sponsor during this time; or
• immediately if we think you have not been a bona fide student at your institution or you have participated in the practices that may have contributed to your Tier 4 sponsor’s licence being revoked or surrendered.
When your permission expires, if you have not found a new sponsor you will have to leave the UK or face enforced removal.
Tier 4 Policy Guidance version 11/2014 page 65 of 81
If they are taken over
If your Tier 4 sponsor is taken over
What will happen
If you are inside or outside the
UK
If the Tier 4 sponsor is taken over by another organisation, the new organisation must apply to become a Tier 4 sponsor within
28 calendar days of them taking over the business (if they are not already licensed by us).
If they do not already have a licence or do not apply for one within
28 days, we will limit your permission to stay to 60 days. You may
want to apply for permission to stay with another Tier 4 sponsor.
We will not limit your permission to stay if you have less than 60
days left.
If the new Tier 4 sponsor does not get a licence, you cannot study with them.