Petition · past parliament
Waive Visa fee & IHS surcharge for Tier-4 students who deferred due to COVID-19
Rejected
21 signatures
What the petition asks
Waive Visa Fee and IHS surcharge on resuming studies for September'2019 & January'2020 intake students on Tier-4 visa, who chose to take a study break due to coronavirus.
Extend a year of Tier-4 visa for placement year students of September'2019 & January'20 intake due to COVID-19
Extend a year of Tier-4 visa for placement year students of September'2019 & January'20 intake due to COVID-19
Online teaching is not worthy of paying such expensive tuition fee to the universities. If international students wanted to study online they wouldn't be paying a large sum of money for Visa, IHS, rent, maintenance and their tuition fee would also be less.
The recruiters have stopped recruiting due to the worsening situation of the UK due to Coronavirus. The students should be compensated with extra time on their visa to find a placement when the situation in the UK gets back to normal.
The recruiters have stopped recruiting due to the worsening situation of the UK due to Coronavirus. The students should be compensated with extra time on their visa to find a placement when the situation in the UK gets back to normal.
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
You may wish to sign some of these petitions:
Reimburse international students this year's fees due to strikes and COVID-19: Reimburse international students this year's fees due to strikes and COVID-19
Extend Tier-4 visas and waive third-term tuition fee for international students: Extend Tier-4 visas and waive third-term tuition fee for international students
Extended Visas indefinitely for International Students: Extended Visas indefinitely for International Students.
Extend proposed Graduate visa route to 2019-20 batch of students due to COVID19: Extend proposed Graduate visa route to 2019-20 batch of students due to COVID19
Pay international students weekly wage equal to 20 hrs to meet monthly expenses: Pay international students weekly wage equal to 20 hrs to meet monthly expenses
Temporarily suspend the 20 hour term time work rule for international students: Temporarily suspend the 20 hour term time work rule for international students.
You could start a new petition calling on the Government to suspend the Immigration Health Surcharge for international students, due to Covid-19, if you would also like this to happen.
You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:
www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support
You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips
You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/
You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/
Reimburse international students this year's fees due to strikes and COVID-19: Reimburse international students this year's fees due to strikes and COVID-19
Extend Tier-4 visas and waive third-term tuition fee for international students: Extend Tier-4 visas and waive third-term tuition fee for international students
Extended Visas indefinitely for International Students: Extended Visas indefinitely for International Students.
Extend proposed Graduate visa route to 2019-20 batch of students due to COVID19: Extend proposed Graduate visa route to 2019-20 batch of students due to COVID19
Pay international students weekly wage equal to 20 hrs to meet monthly expenses: Pay international students weekly wage equal to 20 hrs to meet monthly expenses
Temporarily suspend the 20 hour term time work rule for international students: Temporarily suspend the 20 hour term time work rule for international students.
You could start a new petition calling on the Government to suspend the Immigration Health Surcharge for international students, due to Covid-19, if you would also like this to happen.
You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:
www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support
You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips
You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/
You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/
Timeline
| 3 Apr 2020 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 29 May 2020 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
21
Status
Rejected
Rejected
29 May 2020
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.