Why UK discriminate against Britons abroad ?
A Uk citizen who was a taxes payer till he left UK .When his son born in UK wanted to apply to a British university he was told If you have not lived in the UK/EU/EEA for 3 years prior to the commencement of your course only then he will be elgible for local fees .
He does NOT want Scholorship/Loan or any benefit .
He just wants to pay local fees like any UK student and NOT International fees as he being asked to.
In contrast
Every Aslyum seeker ,terrorist can stay and get benefits while a UK citizen cannot and worse still he cannot be deported.FANATIC Omar Bakri Mohammed last night admitted he hates Britain — after learning he will escape deportation under tough new curbs on Muslim extremists. The Government’s own Human Rights Act means the cleric cannot be sent back to his Syrian homeland in case he faces torture or execution there.The Government’s own report for 1999 -2000 shows cost of supporting asylum seekers was £597 million or 0.17% of total Government spending
If you are going to rant you are not going to get advice.
If you or someone else was getting child allowances for your child, then that child will normally get home-student fees and loans.
If the chlid was living somewhere in EU/EEA/Switzerland for the 3 years that may be assimiliated to being in the UK “for purposes other than study”.
You don’t have to like the law; but it is your responsibility to know it. If you work for a British employer then they should make you whole.
Certain exceptions are made for temporary presence outside of Britain. Were you “ordinarily resident” in the UK and did you pay taxes? That, and not nationality, is the key to home fees.
(BTW, the status of true refugees is fixed by treaty. There are very few of those. Asylum seekers do not necessarily get rights — not unless they are in due course recognized as such. Ranting about people who hate Britain and who may or may not be British or married to British or EU citizens is not helpful to your cause. And finally: are you paying National Insurance Contributions voluntarily (class 2 or 3)? If you are not, don’t come back to Y! Q/A when you get to age 65 and start ranting about not getting a full state pension. You have the right to pay voluntary contributions, and if your employer is not paying them in the UK (even if they are paying them elsewhere) you should.)
If you don’t like the law, write to your MP. Tell him or her myths like that of Lord G (below) and he’ll laugh at you. Because it either isn’t true, or the student lied to the local authority. Parentage would have got the student a British passport, but then he’d be in the same position as your kid.
I used to track down tall tales like this — typically the whiner wouldn’t be telling all the truth. The student either was present in the UK or EU or EEA for 3 years, or fell within one of the legal exceptions: British Forces, British Council, ordinarily resident taxpayer, etc. . . .
