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Clare Hancock
UK national back from Australia
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Hi All. Quick residency query if anyone can help please?
Learner aged 19+ wants to enrol onto an AEB funded course in 22/23, they are a UK National but have not been in the UK for the past 3 years. They went to live in Australia for 10 years and returned to the UK in October 2021. Can they be funded as they haven't been back in the country for past 3 years?
I have checked the AEB funding rules and can only find reference below that mentions living in UK 3 years.
Does that mean we cannot fund?
"UK nationals and other persons with right of abode
UK nationals or other person with a right of abode[footnote 1] who have been ordinarily resident in the UK, or the British Overseas Territories, or the Crown Dependencies (Channel Islands and Isle of Man) for at least the previous 3 years on the first day of learning."
Thanks
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Steve Hewitt
Yeah, ten years is a bit long to be considered a "temporary absence" under the Ordinarily Resident definition, so I can't see a way of funding them until they've been back for three years I'm afraid...
Clare Hancock
UK national back from Australia
Created
Hi All. Quick residency query if anyone can help please?
Learner aged 19+ wants to enrol onto an AEB funded course in 22/23, they are a UK National but have not been in the UK for the past 3 years. They went to live in Australia for 10 years and returned to the UK in October 2021. Can they be funded as they haven't been back in the country for past 3 years?
I have checked the AEB funding rules and can only find reference below that mentions living in UK 3 years.
Does that mean we cannot fund?
"UK nationals and other persons with right of abode
UK nationals or other person with a right of abode[footnote 1] who have been ordinarily resident in the UK, or the British Overseas Territories, or the Crown Dependencies (Channel Islands and Isle of Man) for at least the previous 3 years on the first day of learning."
Thanks