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International Students Fee Refund or Visa Extention due to COVID-19

Submitted on Tuesday 24th March 2020

Rejected on Thursday 30th April 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

International Students Fee Refund or Visa Extention due to COVID-19

Petition Details

Either push the course dates and continue it from the coming year. Or provide a fee refund for the semesters as online teaching isn't helpful or worth what we paid for as international students. We paid a sum of £19,500 plus additional cost relating to accomodatiom, IHS and other costs.

Additional Information

Following things ccould be considered or offered:
1) Extention of visa on bais of our courses and scheduled modules that got affected, or
2) Extension for finding work and visa transitions, or
3)Refund our tution fees for the year.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

You may wish to sign the following petitions calling for the same actions:

Reimburse all students of this year’s fees due to strikes and COVID-19: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/302855

Extended Visas indefinitely for International Students: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/304442

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Read letters asking further questions of Government Ministers: committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/publications/3/correspondence/

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