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[pedro]

Hey, I'm a British citizen who's been living here for 6 years. I want to return home to do a masters next year.
While applying for a few courses I noticed they ask about your country of residence for the previous 3 years for the purposes of funding.
After a bit of google research I discivered that apparently i could be considered an overseas student which would increase my masters fee from 7 million won to over 20 million won.
Any British people come across this problem? Is it a genuine possibility or will i still be consdered a UK home student?
Thanks

[bobbyhanlon]

i was in korea for just over three years and then returned to the uk to do an mba. i was considered a home student. don't worry about it at all.

[OiGirl]

Have you been teaching in Korea?

Have you done anything to maintain domicile back home? Car registration, voting history (absentee), etc.

Of course, I'm from the US, so things may be different for you.

[wiganer]

Don't tell them! Bloody hell!

[English Matt]

If you have a bank account back in the UK and it is registered to a UK address, if you have a savings account in the UK and are paying tax on the interest, if you are registered on the Electoral Roll at an address in the UK then you can show ties to the UK. Additionally you didn't emigrate, you worked on 1 year renewable contracts...this demonstrates you, in all likelihood, had plans to return and never became a permanent resident of Korea (or any other state).

[stuck2]

I'm doing my master's degree online with a UK university. I'm classed as a home student as I gave them my parent's address when I registered. The lecturers are aware that I live overseas as I talk about living in Korea so I guess they haven't communicated that with the administrators.

[Hootsmon]

If you have a permanent residence in the UK (parents' home, for example) then you can be classified as a Home student, I believe. Even if you've been out here for 6 years, you've probably been on short term contracts (1 year or 2 years each, not a permanent contract) so, especially if you can show your visas being for one year each, you are classified as a temporary worker out here so not an Overseas resident.

I should say that I only know this from my own experience of applying to a university in the UK (I've been here over 4 years). I didn't even try to convince them I was a Home student, because it's a distance degree and the costs are exactly the same for overseas students as Home students, but they decided I was a Home student for the reasons above.