小弟第一年过来读预科是08年9月（09年8月到期），不过学校不行也就没认真，在09年重新续签（2010年6月17号到期），这次完成了预科后因为某些原因续签本科时被拒，所以又等到2011年8月份的时候重新拿到3年的签证（2014年10月到期）。我现在是本科毕业，正准备马上读研，不知道如果我续签T4的话，会不会受到这个5年的限制呢？（我申的是goldsmiths , 读media & communication 的）。
09/2008 - 08/2009 = 12 mth
09/2009 - 06/2010 ≈ 10 mth
08/2011 - 07/2014 = 36 mth
60 - (12+10+36) = 2
There are some exceptions to the 5-year cap:
if you have successfully completed a UK degree course which was at least four years long, and you are making a Tier 4 application to study a Master’s degree at a higher education institution (recognised body or institution in receipt of public funding), the limit is six years.
if your Tier 4 application is to study a PhD (or one of the postgraduate research qualifications listed in Annex 6 of the Home Office’s Tier 4 Policy Guidance [^]) at a higher education institution, there is no limit while you are studying the PhD.
if you have already completed a PhD (or one of the postgraduate research qualifications listed in Annex 6 of the Home Office’s Tier 4 Policy Guidance [^]) in the UK, any new Tier 4 application is subject to an 8-year limit (including courses below degree level, but not including Tier 4 leave granted under the Doctorate Extension Scheme).
courses in architecture, medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine and science, or music at a conservatoire, are exempt from the limit.
if you have completed a UK degree, and your current Tier 4 application is to study certain legal qualifications the legal qualification is exempt from the limit. In England and Wales the relevant qualifications are a law conversion course, a Legal Practice Course and the Bar Professional Training Course. In Northern Ireland the relevant qualifications are a Masters in Legal Science (MLegSc), the Solicitors Course and the Bar Course. In Scotland the relevant qualifications are an accelerated graduate LLB and a Diploma in Professional Legal Practice.
if you have successfully completed a UK degree course which was at least four years long, and you are making a Tier 4 application to study a Master’s degree at a higher education institution (recognised body or institution in receipt of public funding), the limit is six years.
就是说如果读完本科再读研的话，限制就变成了6年了么？ 谢谢了:loveliness:
不是的，是你本科如果是四年制课程的话，会由5年限制延长为6年。而且这个5年的限制是本科和硕士加起来一共5年之内完成，不算你上本科之前的课程，所以OK的~
明白了，原来是这样算的，这下放心续签去了:loveliness: 