I know and I'm sorry.
but having called up the consulate and being told that university skills are what I really need - but "oh no we can't supply you with a full course length student visa" - what else can I do? I don't want to go to uni here - I want to go to uni in the UK.

I think everybody deserves the freedom to move where they want because sometimes it's not the obvious qualifications they have.
(Poppet some assembly required., Fri 8 May 2009, 14:50, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

that sucks
if you are coming here to study and can support your way through it then there's no reason to stop you.

pretty harsh. how do most foreign students manage it? my uni was full of them!
(The Stalker's Stalker For all your stalking needs, Fri 8 May 2009, 14:53, Reply)

They took our jobs :(

( Cawl, Fri 8 May 2009, 14:55, Reply)

not mine
I'd be welcomed with open arms anywhere :-)

huzzah for engineering!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 8 May 2009, 15:00, Reply)

Oh...
Well, I don't really wanna leave the EU, so I'm ok being a skill-poor idiot.
( Cawl, Fri 8 May 2009, 15:02, Reply)

nor me
I like the climate here. I'm not suited to extremes of hot or cold.

but the option is there.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 8 May 2009, 15:04, Reply)

Yeah...
I like the idea of Finland though...
Snow is most excellent.
And reindeer are delicious.
( Cawl, Fri 8 May 2009, 15:06, Reply)

both valid points
I need to be able to surf though
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 8 May 2009, 15:08, Reply)

What about
Snow-surfing?
( Cawl, Fri 8 May 2009, 15:10, Reply)

not the same
easier to get hurt, and I don't like pain, unless judiciously applied at the right time.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 8 May 2009, 15:15, Reply)

If you want a good rodgering,
Just man the fuck up and ask :p
( Cawl, Fri 8 May 2009, 15:16, Reply)

you're so good to me
;-)
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 8 May 2009, 15:16, Reply)

...
to in
( Cawl, Fri 8 May 2009, 15:18, Reply)

that provoked unwanted office snorting
damn you and all your kind
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 8 May 2009, 15:29, Reply)

They have rich parents
who pay for everything.
My family have never been money rich. We've never wanted but we've certainly never been able to buy the best of anything.
I'm working my arse off to do this because I don't want to spend the rest of my life in a small town and never seeing the world.
(Poppet some assembly required., Fri 8 May 2009, 14:57, Reply)

I guess there's always the illegal route.
Get here, change your name, get fake documents.
( Cawl, Fri 8 May 2009, 14:59, Reply)

But who is going to pay for your uni course?
Why should I pay for you to go to a Uni over here?
(Bazongaloid, Fri 8 May 2009, 15:00, Reply)

Doesn't work like that
If you're studying and are from outside the EU, you have to pay the full fee, somewhere in the region of £60-70k. They will often get local help from their governments, but will still get charged the full fee. Inside the EU, that's the EU paying it. UK citizen - well, that's obvious.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Fri 8 May 2009, 15:02, Reply)

VC is saying she doesn't have the money
so how is she expecting to pay for Uni? If you have a place on a uni course, then getting a visa is more straightforward, but to get the place you need to show you can pay. VC seems to be saying, let me come over, i'll promise to earn money and then go to uni, but my point is that, no matter how nice VC is, there are lots of people form the UK already who are capable of working as waitresses. So why should she be allowed to come and take the place of them?
(Bazongaloid, Fri 8 May 2009, 15:06, Reply)

Exactly right.
Because I'm from outside the UK I have to pay every cent myself - and I'm more then happy to work my arse off to do that.

EDIT: that's not what I said. I said my parents don't have the money. My dad is retired because he's medically and physically unable to work. My mother is a uni student herself.

I am, and I will work my arse off to put myself through university without handouts.
(Poppet some assembly required., Fri 8 May 2009, 15:06, Reply)

You tell him, sister

(Bert's other profile wants to wear your balls on a necklace, Fri 8 May 2009, 15:15, Reply)

VC
*puts on twatcap*

Why should you able to study over here just because you want too? Australia has many fine universities for you to choose from.

I'm not attacking you for your choices but I don't agree with people being able to study over here 'because they want too'. If there was a genuine reason then fairynuff.
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Fri 8 May 2009, 15:00, Reply)

Because in all honesty
I want to be able to meet people who don't know me. I don't fit in here - I never have. I want to start over. Everybody in my home town is fleeing to Universities anywhere but here - everywhere I go I will see someone I know, who knows me, who knows my past, knows what other people have done to me. I don't want to be that girl any more.

And also - I'm in love with someone who loves me back. And I don't want to wait another 4 years before I can see them just so I can claim skills on a visa.
(Poppet some assembly required., Fri 8 May 2009, 15:05, Reply)