To be eligible to apply for support, you must meet our residence conditions as set out in the The Nursing and Midwifery Student Allowances (Scotland) Regulations 2007 (as amended).
If you have previously received public funds for one or more courses of further or higher education, you can still receive the full support package available under the Nursing and Midwifery Student Bursary (NMSB) scheme.
To meet our residence conditions. You must have been 'ordinarily resident' in the UK, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man for three years immediately before the relevant date (the first day of the first academic year of the course). You must also be ordinarily resident in the UK and Islands on the relevant date.
'Ordinarily resident' has been defined in the courts as 'habitual and normal residence in one place'. It means that you, your parents or your husband or wife live in a country year after year by choice, apart from temporary or occasional absences such as holidays or business trips. Living in the UK totally or mainly for the purpose of receiving full-time education does not count as being ordinarily resident.
If you are not a UK or other EU national, you must also have been settled in the UK (as set out in the Immigration Act 1971) on the relevant date . To find out about getting settled status, you can visit the Home Office website or call their helpline on 0870 6067766.
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Relevant date
The exact dates depend on when your course starts.
The dates for session 2010-2011 are as follows.
- 1 August 2010 for courses that start between 1 August and 31 Dec 2010 .
- 1 January 2011 for courses that start between 1 January and 31 March 2011 .
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Our advice to anyone who is not a UK national, or who has been out of the country other than on holiday or on business trips, is to contact us for advice before applying for student support.
If you do not meet the conditions set out above, support may still be available to:
- UK national or family member of such a national who has returned to the UK to live or study, who currently lives or has lived in another member state of the EU, elsewhere in the EEA or Switzerland;
- UK national who was born in and has spent the greater part of their life in the UK;
- UK nationals returning from employment or study outside the EEA or Switzerland;
- nationals and family members of nationals of other EU member states, Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Switzerland, who have migrant worker or self-employed status in the UK;
- nationals and family members of nationals of other EU member states, Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Switzerland, who have frontier worker or frontier self-employed status in the UK;
- people recognised as refugees by the British Government, and their husbands, wives or civil partners and children or stepchildren;
- Iraqi Nationals who have been given leave to enter the UK under the Iraqi Direct Entry Scheme (also know as Locally Engaged Staff Assistance Scheme (LESAS));
- people who have been granted 'exceptional leave to enter or remain', 'humanitarian protection' or 'discretionary leave' in the UK and their husbands, wives or civil partners and children or stepchildren;
- anyone who is under the age of 18 and has been granted temporary protection
- anyone who is the dependant child of a Swiss national;
- anyone who is the dependant child of a Turkish worker; or
- young asylum seekers.
The residence eligibility conditions are complicated. If you are in any doubt about your residence eligibility status, you should contact us for advice.