Don’t put your study plans at risk - apply now! The United Kingdom welcomes applications from genuine students. We offer great educational opportunities. However, you must prepare your visa application properly. Did you know that you can ask for your visa to start up to three months in advance of your application date? These are the important points: Make sure you have the right documents. Nothing more, nothing less. You can check https://www.gov.uk/study-visit-visa for guidelines. UKVI encourages all students to apply for their visas well in advance Remember you can ask us to start your visa 3 months after you have applied. Just make sure you mention this on your visa application form. UKVI receives applications not just from Turkey but also from Central Asia and South Caucasus. We are really busy in the summer so please allow us plenty of time to process your student visa application. Our target is to process every application within 15 working days. Most of the time we are much quicker than that but in the summer it can take us that long. If you are a student applying under the Point based system (Tier 4) you will need to sit a short interview in the visa application centre and you will be interviewed by an interviewer from Sheffield. If you are not able to find the information you need or your enquiry relates to a visa application that is already in progress you can use our International Enquiry Service https://ukvi-international.faq-help.com/ You can reach our International Enquiry Service via email, telephone or web-chat. Contact by email is free. Speaking to an advisor costs £1.37 per minute in addition to the standard network charges and a ten minute web-chat will cost £4. To make an enquiry you can call at 00800142078469 or if you prefer to dial a UK number direct please call 00 44 1243 218 175 between 9 am-4 pm. Alternatively you can send an email or have a web chat by logging on to https://ukvi-international.faq-help.com/ We recommend that during our peak periods (the summer season, Bayram and before the Christmas holidays) applications are made as far in advance as possible to ensure your travel plans are not affected. You can check https://www.gov.uk/visa-processing-times to get up to date information.
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