The Education (Student Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021

Amendments to the Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2018

131.  In Schedule 2, after paragraph 2ZA insert—

“Category 2ZB - Persons granted leave to remain as a protected partner and their children

2ZB.— (1) A person—

(a) granted leave to remain as a protected partner,

(b) who is ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands and has not ceased to be so resident since being granted such leave, and

(c) who is ordinarily resident in Wales on the first day of the first academic year of the course.

(2) A person who—

(a) is the child of a person granted leave to remain as a protected partner,

(b) on the leave application date was under 18 years old and was the child of a person granted leave to remain as a protected partner,

(c) is ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands and has not ceased to be so resident since being granted leave to remain in the United Kingdom, and

(d) is ordinarily resident in Wales on the first day of the first academic year of the course.

(3) In this paragraph—

(a) “leave application date” means the date on which a person (“P”) made an application for leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom that results in P becoming a person granted leave to remain as a protected partner,

(b) “person granted leave to remain as a protected partner” means a person granted leave to remain in the United Kingdom as either a victim of domestic violence or domestic abuse or as a bereaved partner under any of the following provisions of the immigration rules—

(i) paragraphs 289B and 289D (victims of domestic violence),

(ii) paragraphs D-DVILR.1.1. and D-DVILR.1.2. of Appendix FM (victims of domestic abuse),

(iii) paragraphs 40 and 41 of Appendix Armed Forces (victims of domestic violence who are partners of members of the armed forces),

(iv) paragraph 288, as a person in relation to whom the requirements in paragraph 287(b) of those rules are met (bereaved spouses or civil partners),

(v) paragraphs D-BPILR.1.1. and D-BPILR.1.2. of Appendix FM (bereaved partners),

(vi) paragraphs 36 and 37 of Appendix Armed Forces (bereaved partners), or

(vii) paragraph 295N, as a person in relation to whom the requirements in paragraph 295M of those rules are met (bereaved unmarried or same sex partners).”