Your student finance application

If you answer 'yes' to this question, you must send your passport or national identity card as evidence of your EU nationality. The address you should send these documents to will be displayed when you complete your application.

• The 27 EU countries are Austria, Belgium, Bwlgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

If you answer 'yes' to this question, you must provide evidence to confirm that your parent is a Swiss National and that you are their child by sending your parent's passport or national identity card (if these show proof of their Swiss nationality and your relationship to them).

If you answer 'yes', details of the evidence you will be required to submit will be displayed when you submit your application.

If it is your relative who is working, has worked or is looking for work in the UK, they will need to provide the relevant evidence rather than you.

If your child, son- or daughter-in-law, or child's civil partner is the worker, you must be dependent on them.

Settled status means that you can live in the UK permanently without the Home Office placing any restrictions on how long you may remain. You are free from any restriction if you are a British citizen, have a right of 'permanent residence' in the UK, have been granted indefinite leave to remain, or if you have a right of abode in the UK.

Further information about the right of 'permanent residence' and other immigration issues can be obtained from the Immigration and Nationality Directorate at the Home Office at - www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk.

If you do not have a British passport which confirms your immigration status, but you have a letter from the Home Office which does, please send this letter as evidence of your settled status if requested.

If you (or your husband, wife, civil partner, parents or a step-parent) have successfully applied for refugee status in the UK under the terms of the 1951 United Nations Convention on Refugees, and you (or they) have been granted refugee status, the Home Office will have sent you (or them) a letter and an immigration status document confirming this. You should send these documents, not photocopies, with your supporting evidence. You should also provide evidence to confirm your relationship to the person who has been granted refugee status.

If you are claiming student finance as the child or step-child of a refugee, you will only be considered a 'child' if you were under the age of 18 at the time of your parent's application to the Home Office.

If you are claiming student finance as the husband, wife or civil partner of a refugee, you must have been married or in the civil partnership at the time of their application for asylum.

The Home Office provides reference numbers to people who moved to the UK from a country outside the European Union. This reference number normally starts with the first letter of your last name. This will then be followed by a 6 or 7 digit number e.g. A1234567.

If you (or your husband, wife, civil partner, parents or a step-parent) have been granted 'leave to enter or remain' in the UK as the result of an unsuccessful asylum application, the Home Office will have sent you (or him or her) a letter and an immigration status document confirming this. Where applicable this letter should also tell you (or him or her) when the 'leave' to enter or remain' status is due to expire. You should send this letter, not a photocopy, with your supporting evidence. You should also provide evidence to confirm your relationship to the person who has been granted 'leave to enter or remain'.

If you are claiming student finance as the child or step-child of a person granted 'leave to enter or remain' you will only be considered a 'child' if you were under the age of 18 at the time of your parent's application to the Home Office.

If you are claiming student finance as the husband, wife or civil partner of someone who has been granted 'leave to enter or remain', you must have been married or in the civil partnership at the time of their application for asylum.

The Home Office provides reference numbers to people who moved to the UK from a country outside the European Union. This reference number normally starts with the first letter of your last name. This will then be followed by a 6 or 7 digit number e.g. A1234567.