CAS process for conditional offer holders

Step 1 - Accept your conditional offer

You accept your conditional offer to study with us and start to prepare for your visa application by reading our online guidance. If you prepare early you will have a better chance of getting your student visa on time.

Step 2 - Meet the conditions of your offer

You meet the conditions of your offer (for example, we may have asked you to take an English language test or send us your transcripts).

Once you have met these conditions, we will normally issue you with an unconditional offer, and you will start to receive information about the CAS and visa process.

Step 3 - Complete the CAS request form and make a fee payment

You will receive a link to complete a CAS request form online. The earliest we will start to issue CAS depends on when your programme starts.

We will issue CAS for students joining in September from June onward.

Make a £3000 advanced payment of tuition fees. If you receive financial support from a university, school, government or international company (including an international organisation), then you are usually exempt from this payment.

Step 4 - We review your CAS request

We will let you know if we need additional information.

Step 5 - We let you know if you need to supply financial documents

Some students need to provide financial documents when applying for a student visa and if you do, we will request them from you as part of the CAS process.  We will then review them and provide advice to you.

Don't send us any financial documents unless we ask you for them.

If we need to see your financial documents, then we can only issue a CAS once the document has met the visa requirements, and we will help you understand the requirements during the process.

Find out more about the Student visa financial requirements.

Step 6 - CAS issued and you can apply for a Student visa

If we have everything we need and you meet the visa requirements, we will email you a CAS statement as soon as possible.

When we issue a CAS, we will send you some important guidance. It is very important to follow the steps in your CAS email exactly including following the guidance in relation to the visa delivery code (also known as the ACL code or BRP delivery code).

Find out more about applying for a Student visa.