International Student Support Service

Police Registration

If you come from one of the following countries then you will have a stamp in your passport that says you must register with the police within 7 days of arriving in the UK.

Police Registration can be completed on campus in room B68 in the International Student Support Service.

To find out registration times and get an appointment, please come to Drop in between the hours of 10am and 12pm or 2pm and 4pm any week day.

When you come to Police Registration, please make sure that you have all of the following with you, otherwise you will not be able to register:

• 2 passport-sized photographs
• your passport and visa
• your offer letter from the University
• £34 registration fee which must be paid in cash – please have the correct money available
• completed questionnaire which can be downloaded from the bottom of this page.

You must report to the Police within 7 days any of the following changes:

• change of address
• change of University
• change of marital status or birth of children
• extension of stay granted by the UK Border Agency
• change of passport
• temporary absence of 8 weeks or more from registered address.

If you need to update your Police Registration Certificate with any of the changes you must visit International Student Support to do so. Please follow the instructions above.

Registering with the police is an important procedure, and if you are in any doubt about what you need to do, you should contact us.

If you hold a Police Registration Certificate, you are also supposed to notify the police when you leave the UK for the last time. If you contact us with your name, nationality, date of birth and the date and place that you are leaving from, we shall notify them for you.

Police Registration Questionnaire (pdf file – 112 kb)