Rejected petition Waive Visa fee & IHS surcharge for Tier-4 students who deferred due to COVID-19

Waive Visa Fee and IHS surcharge on resuming studies for September'2019 & January'2020 intake students on Tier-4 visa, who chose to take a study break due to coronavirus.
Extend a year of Tier-4 visa for placement year students of September'2019 & January'20 intake due to COVID-19

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Online teaching is not worthy of paying such expensive tuition fee to the universities. If international students wanted to study online they wouldn't be paying a large sum of money for Visa, IHS, rent, maintenance and their tuition fee would also be less.
The recruiters have stopped recruiting due to the worsening situation of the UK due to Coronavirus. The students should be compensated with extra time on their visa to find a placement when the situation in the UK gets back to normal.

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You may wish to sign some of these petitions:

Reimburse international students this year's fees due to strikes and COVID-19: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/318717

Extend Tier-4 visas and waive third-term tuition fee for international students: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/310825

Extended Visas indefinitely for International Students: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/304442

Extend proposed Graduate visa route to 2019-20 batch of students due to COVID19: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/314710

Pay international students weekly wage equal to 20 hrs to meet monthly expenses: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/310054

Temporarily suspend the 20 hour term time work rule for international students: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/307938

You could start a new petition calling on the Government to suspend the Immigration Health Surcharge for international students, due to Covid-19, if you would also like this to happen.

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Date submitted 3 April 2020
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