Big problem re Nottingham offer and fee status

I would image it's just a standard thing - you can only go to university if you have organised some way of paying for it, usually through the UK student loan system. Perhaps you need to talk to someone in student finance. Here's a bit of very basic info: https://www.gov.uk/student-finance/overview
There should be a phone number somewhere on the site - give them a call, they're the experts.

Yes, I have organised a way of paying for it - I qualify for home student fees and will be getting a normal student loan. My offer could be reassessed though if I don't pay the international fees, which is wrong!

Thanks for the phone number though.

In which case it's probably a standard thing - my offers ask for it too, it's just the university's way of ensuring they will get some money from somewhere. It'll probably just be automatically sorted out at a later date when you apply for student finance.

But surely the offer being "dependent on an international fee status" means the offer only stands if I pay the international fees?

It doesn't sound normal to me

The reasons for this is simple :

1. Universities are allowed to recruit unlimited International students (because they pay full cost fees) but limited to specific numbers for Home students per course (because the UK government subsidise Home fees).

2. Universities quite reasonably do not do a full fee assessment on everyone who applies. They dont have enough staff time for that. This Uni has clearly decided that it will only send time looking at students who intend to actually come to the Uni. Yes, they might risk loosing people as 'Firm' because of this, but that is obviously a risk they are prepared to take.

I suggest you contact the main Admissions Office for he Uni - by phone, and ask for their help. If your case is straightforward they may be able to help, but that decision is entirely up to them.

That doesn't explain why this person who will (or should) have applied as a home student has been singled out for this treatment.

The most likely explanation is either that the applicant filled in their UCAS form wrongly - perhaps guided by an inexperienced tutor who hasn't dealt with similar things before, or that Nottingham uni have read the form incorrectly.

Or, for instance if the applicant was born overseas, has a personal address in the UK and a parental home address overseas this may suggest they are not a Home student.

Any University has the right to question anyone's Fee status. Too bad the applicant doesn't like it, but that is life.

Okay, so after sending a few emails and even one including a copy of my VISA. They finally got back to me with a productive email.
They are willing to look at my fee again once I have sent a copy of my VISA, passport photo page and a letter from the Home Office.
I have all of these things so hopefully my fee will be changed!
Thanks for the help everyone

Hii, I am pretty much in the same boat as you- except my fee status changes to 'local' this summer. Nottingham have said they might reassess my fee status and so have Warwick, but they've said my status might not change.
I just want to know- did it work out for you? I don't want to leave this to chance and I honestly dont knownwhat to do. Will it not be wrong to charge me overseas fee if student finance England are giving me a student loan?

Thanks,

Niia