UK student visa fee

At a glance

The fee, as published

£558 application fee, as published at gov.uk/student-visa — the same £558 applies whether you apply from outside the UK or extend/switch inside the UK, and £558 is also charged for each dependant. This is separate from the Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS), published at £776 per year for students and their dependants. Optional faster-decision services cost extra (see processing_time). Fees are set by the Home Office fees table and change periodically — always re-check gov.uk before paying.

What the application fee does not cover

Almost every student visa route has costs beyond the application fee itself, and they are a material part of the budget rather than a rounding error.

• Health surcharge or insurance, which several countries require up front for the whole course length.
• Biometrics, where it is charged separately from the application.
• Document costs — attestation, notarisation, certified translations, courier.
• The financial requirement itself, which is money you must hold rather than spend, and is usually the largest number in the process.
• Dependant applications, each charged separately.

Before you budget from this page

1. Check the date this page was last verified, printed at the foot.
2. Open the official source linked there and confirm the current figure.
3. Check whether your route — the specific visa subclass or category — carries the same fee.
4. Add the surrounding costs above before deciding what the visa stage will cost you.

Visa fees are revised on government timetables rather than annual ones, and a figure that was right last quarter can be wrong this one. The date at the foot of this page is the honest limit of what we can tell you.