Course Eligibility and Immigration Status

The majority of courses run by Luton Adult Learning are funded by Education Skills Funding Agency (ESFA).

We fund individuals residing in areas of England outside of devolved authority areas.

Adult Learning must check the eligibility of a learner, including where in England they are resident, at the start of each course and only claim funding for eligible learners.

Adult Learning must not fund a learner who is unable to complete a learning aim or programme of study in the time they have available.

Individuals will be eligible for funding if:

They have been resident in the UK, Overseas territories or Crown Dependencies for at least the previous 3 years AND

• They are UK nationals with a right to abode OR

• They are EEA nationals in the UK with EU settlement scheme OR

• They are Irish citizens OR 

• They are non UK nationals with permission granted to live in the UK (not only for educational purposes) OR

• They are non UK nationals who have pre-settled or settled status under EUSS

Asylum Seekers

Are eligible if they have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home office.  Any person who has applied for an extension or variation of their current immigration permission in the UK is still treated as if they have that leave. This only applies if the application was made before their current permission expired. Their leave continues until the Home Office decide on their immigration application.

Those who are ineligible for funding are (this list is not exhaustive):

• Those who are here without authority or lawful status

• Those who are resident in the UK on a student visa unless they are eligible through meeting any other of the categories described above

• Those who are in the UK on holiday, with or without a visa

• Those who are a family member of a person granted a student visa, who have been given immigration permission to stay in the UK and have not been ordinarily resident in the UK for the previous 3 years on the first day of learning

• Those whose biometric residence permit or residence permit imposes a study prohibition or restriction on the individual

How to view your immigration status

You can use this service if you:

• Have settled or pre-settled status

• Applied for a visa and used the 'UK Immigration: ID Check' app to scan your identity document on your phone

You cannot use this service if you have a vignette in your passport or a biometric residence permit to prove your immigration status.

To view your immigration status, you will need:

• Details of the identity document you used when you applied (your passport, national identity card, or biometric residence card or permit)

• Your date of birth

• Access to the mobile number or email address you ised when you applied - you'll be sent a code for logging in 

To start, please follow this link and follow the step by step instructions below.

Getting a Share Code to prove your immigration status

Step 1: Go to https://www.gov.uk/view-prove-immigration-status 

Step 2: The below page will appear:

Step 3: Click 'Start Now'

Step 4: When the below page appears, select the document you used for your Settlement Status application and click 'Continue.' (This guide uses passport as an example).

Step 5: The system will then request your document number. Enter it and click 'Continue.'

Step 6: Next, enter your date of birth and click 'Continue.'

Step 7: In order to validate your identity, you will need to send a security code by text or email. Select how you would like to receive the code and click ‘Continue’.

Step 8: Wait for the email or text to come through detailing your security code, then insert in into the box provided and click ‘Continue’. If the code hasn’t arrived within 10 minutes, press ‘Resend code’ to try again.

Step 9: Your digital profile card will appear. This will detail your immigration status. Should you need to prove your status, click ‘Prove your status to someone’

Step 10: Select the option which best describes why you are proving your immigration status and click ‘Continue’. For example, if your employer would like to check your right to work, you would select ‘work in the UK’.  

Step 11: On the next page, click continue. Do not share screenshots of this page as it doesn’t proof your settlement status.

Step 12: You will then be given a share code, which you can share with the organisation to whom you need to prove your status. You could screen shot this, or just copy and paste the code into an email or text. Make sure to send it so that it can be used before the 30 day expiry.