Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies (CAS)
Important CAS Dates
JANUARY 2025
Deposit and CAS documents deadline - 29 November 2024
Pre-Sessional English Programmes (PREP)
Deposit and CAS documents deadlines:
20 week PREP - Friday 7th March 2025
10 week PREP - Friday 9th May 2025
6 week PREP - Friday 6th June 2025
SEPTEMBER 2025
Postgraduate Programmes
Deposit deadline - 8 August 2025
CAS documents deadline - 8 August 2025
Undergraduate Programmes
Deposit deadline is - 29 August 2025
CAS deadline - 29 August 2025
JANUARY 2026
Deposit and CAS documents deadline - 21 November 2025
We must receive your payment of £5,000 toward your tuition by the deposit deadline to provide us enough time to process your CAS. Please find information on how to pay.
We must also have received all of your visa documents by the CAS deadline (i.e. matured financial evidence and TB certificate and/or ATAS if required) by the document submission deadline.
To submit your documents, email them to [email protected]
These are strict deadlines. We cannot accept any evidence after the deadline. If you will not meet the deadline for any reason, you may want to consider deferring your offer to the next intake. Please contact [email protected] for more information on deferring.
What is a CAS?
A CAS is a unique reference number issued by the University of Bradford, which allows international students to apply for their Student Visa. If successful, your CAS will be emailed to you.
The Visa Support team will consider your CAS request once you have formally applied for admission on your course of study and you have fulfilled all academic and financial conditions related to the University's admission process.
Please note a CAS can only be used once. This means if your visa is refused, you will need a new CAS to make a new Student Visa application.
How do I get my CAS?
When you accept your unconditional offer from the University of Bradford, you will receive an email from the Visa Support team advising you to:
- Complete the CAS Request Form. Please ensure that you follow the provided link and complete the CAS request form, as it contains important information to properly assess your CAS request.
- Pay a deposit toward your tuition. If you are a sponsored student, in the event that your official sponsorship letter is delayed, you must pay a deposit by the deposit deadline otherwise we will not be able to consider your CAS request. You can then provide your official sponsor letter before your CAS is issued.
If you have accepted your offer but have not received the subsequent email, please contact the Visa Support team.
Receipt of this CAS Request Form and deposit payment will allow the Visa Support team to start the necessary checks that we are required to do before we can issue you with a CAS.
We will support you to make sure you are in the best possible position to make a successful Student Visa application before we issue your CAS. Our pre-CAS checks may include the following:
- financial evidence checks
- credibility checks, including your previous academic and immigration history and conducting an interview
Please note that you will be asked to submit your supporting visa application documents (i.e. financial evidence and TB certificate) to be checked prior to issuing a CAS, so please begin to prepare them as soon as possible. Documents should be emailed to [email protected].
Refusing a CAS
We take a risk-based approach when considering intent to study. If it becomes clear during our pre-CAS checks that your risk of refusal is high, we reserve the right to refuse your CAS.
To ensure that we are complying with UKVI immigration laws, in-line with our Sponsor License requirements, we must only assign a CAS to a student we reasonably believe will:
- Meet the requirements of the Student Route under which we assign the CAS; and
- Comply with the conditions of their permission to stay in the UK.
Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/student-sponsor-guidance
We are unable to issue a CAS if the applicant does not meet the requirements of the Immigration Rules. We also reserve the right to withdraw a CAS to meet our sponsor responsibilities.
If we feel that we cannot issue you a CAS, you will receive an email from a Visa Support Team Officer explaining why we are unable to provide you with a CAS.