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Re-enrolment for continuing students
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Steps to re-enrolment
You'll need to re-enrol each academic year or session to confirm you want to continue your studies at SOAS.
It's best to re-enrol as soon as you can, to ensure that your student loans or grants are processed in good time.
Key dates 2025-26
| Activity | Opening date (2025) | Closing date (2025) |
|---|---|---|
Enrolment for continuing students who have progressed UG/PG/PGR | Monday 4 August | Friday 3 October |
| Late summer resit students | Monday 22 September | Friday 3 October |
| BLE/Moodle Guest access | - | Friday 3 October |
Steps to re-enrolment
1. Invitation to enrol
You will receive an 'invitation to re-enrol' email.
2. Complete enrolment
Complete online enrolment:
- Log in to the SOAS Online Student Services portal and click on the Online Enrolment box
- Confirm your details, such as your address, updated email address and emergency contact, and that your enrolment will not be confirmed until your approved form of payment has been reviewed by the fees team
- Upload your ID and immigration document (if applicable)
- To avoid any delays to your enrolment, please:
- Ensure that you carefully read each page and submit all required information and documents
- Provide a scan or clear picture of any documents requested as part of enrolment.
- Upload copies of the full-sized document and do not attempt to crop any corners or apply any filters.
- Ensure that you correctly label the document you are uploading (e.g. visa vignette, passport/BRP, birth certificate)
The Teams will check your enrolment, i.e. personal details, submitted documents, fees payment. This may take 3 to 4 days. Should anything be unclear or missing you will be contacted by email.
3. Confirmation
Once your enrolment has been finalised, you will receive an enrolment confirmation to your SOAS email account. If your SOAS ID Card has expired, once your enrolment has been confirmed, please contact the Campus Security Office, located in the Main Building on the lower ground floor.
4. Student Status letter from SOAS
During your study at SOAS, you may need a letter to prove your student status - whether it's for council tax exemption, opening a bank account, applying for a Schengen Visa, or many other reasons. You can request a letter from the Student Hub, via the Student Information Desk (SID).
Please select Request a Service from the main screen. You will then see the option to browse categories. Select "General Student Support" and then "Student Letter". You can stop by Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm
If you have any queries, please contact us through the Student Information Desk to speak with the relevant enrolment team.
UK/Irish citizens
Please complete the online re-enrolment task. However, if you did not previously provide us with your passport/ID document or you have a new passport/ID document please upload it via the Online student portal.
EU nationals and eligible family members with European Settlement Scheme (EUSS) or Jersey, Guernsey, or the Isle of Man’s settlement schemes status
If the immigration document you previously provided to us has expired or you are returning from interruption or a period of non-attendance or you are an EU national/eligible family member who previously did not provide us with evidence of status under the EUSS/ Jersey, Guernsey, or the Isle of Man’s settlement schemes status you must upload the following documents:
- Your passport (photo ID page);
- A ‘share code’/ EUSS reference number which you can obtain from the UKVI's View and Prove immigration status service, or
- Certificate of Application confirming that you have applied under the EUSS or equivalent (if applicable)-PDF or Sharecode.
- Please make sure you are generating a sharecode for 'any other reason' (not right to work or right to rent). Your sharecode should begin with the letter 'S'. Visit the UK gov website to generate the share code
Student route (previously Tier 4) visa holders
- If the visa/UK immigration permission, you previously provided SOAS has or will expire shortly you will need to provide evidence of your new visa as part of your re-enrolment; or
- If you have submitted a valid in-country application for permission to stay, provide us with a copy of your previous visa and the full PDF of your submitted visa application. This must include the date your application was submitted. You will be re-enrolled based on your application but must update SOAS as soon as a decision has been made on your application. Please contact the Student Visa Compliance team at Compliance@soas.ac.uk for more information if you have not already received a CAS and apply for a new visa.
If you obtained a new Student visa or switched to a new UK immigration category, please provide us with a ‘share code’ beginning with ‘S’ so that we can view your e-visa and confirm your full immigration status by logging on to Online Student Services and selecting the Upload My documents box. Please note that the uploads need to be in a JPEG or PDF format and no bigger than 2 MB.
If you have not done so already, you can obtain the ‘share code’ via the UKVI's View and Prove your immigration status service. Please make sure you are generating a share code for 'any other reason' (not right to work or right to rent).
Student route visa holders re-enrolling at SOAS are expected to adhere to the responsibilities and conditions attached to their Student visa.
All other visa/immigration types
- If your existing visa/UK immigration permission has expired or will expire shortly after the re-enrolment deadline or you did not previously provide us with evidence, you will need to submit copies of your relevant documents via the Online Student Portal (e.g. new visa/BRP/share code, travel document, ARC etc); or
- If you have submitted a valid in-country application for permission to stay, provide us with your share code beginning with ‘S’ to enable us to view your previous/current visa and the full PDF of your new submitted visa application. This must include the date your application was submitted. You will be enrolled on the basis of your application but must update SOAS as soon as a decision has been made on your application and provide us with your new visa decision email and share code beginning with ‘S’.
- If you obtained a new visa or switched to a new UK immigration category, please provide us with a ‘share code’ beginning with ‘S’ so that we can view your e-visa and confirm your full immigration status by logging on to Online Student Services and selecting the Upload My documents box. Please note that the uploads need to be in a JPEG or PDF format and no bigger than 2 MB. If you have not done so already, you can obtain the ‘share code’ via the UKVI's View and Prove your immigration status service. Please make sure you are generating a share code for 'any other reason' (not right to work or right to rent).
BRP cards with 31/12/2024 expiry
If you have been issued a BRP that expired on 31 December 2024, but your visa decision letter or email confirms that your immigration permission extends beyond this date and you have not yet created a UKVI account, please see the gov.uk webpages regarding creating your UKVI account and generating a share code.
Contact us
Please contact us through the Student Information Desk (SID) to speak with a member of the Enrolment team.