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As well as being ordinarily resident in England on the first day of your course, you must meet one of the following rules:

• You, your spouse / civil partner or your parents are United Kingdom (UK) nationals who have returned from work in another member country of the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland and have got a job in the UK, and you have been living in the EEA for the three years before the first day of the first academic year of your course.
  
• You, your spouse / civil partner or your parents are from an EEA country or Switzerland and you can show that you, your spouse or either of your parents have migrant worker status and you have been living in the EEA or Switzerland for the three years before the first day of the first academic year of your course.
  
• You, your spouse / civil partner or your parents are a frontier worker, i.e. from an EEA country or Switzerland, work in England and return to a residence in the EEA or Switzerland at least once a week and you have been living in the EEA or Switzerland for the three years before the first day of the first academic year of your course.
  
• You, your spouse / civil partner or your parents are recognised by the British Government as a refugee and have lived in the UK, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man since you were informed of your refugee status.
  
• You, your spouse / civil partner or your parents have been granted humanitarian protection or leave to enter or remain* in the UK by the Home Office and you have been living within the UK, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man for the three years before the first day of the first academic year of your course.
   
  *If your course starts on or after 1 April 2011, you, your spouse / civil partner or your parents must have been granted humanitarian protection.

 

If you are applying for a bursary as the spouse or civil partner of someone who has been granted refugee status, humanitarian protection or leave to enter or remain, you must have been their spouse or civil partner at the time of their application for asylum.

If your Home Office papers confirming your refugee status, humanitarian protection or leave to enter or remain has an expiry date, your eligibility for support will cease at the end of the academic year in which the relevant status expires, unless further leave is granted.