Changing Your Personal Details

It is very important that you keep your personal details up-to-date throughout your time at UEA.

It is a condition of your immigration permission that you ensure UEA and UKVI has your most up-to-date personal information.

Updating UEA

Passports and Visa Status

UEA must hold a copy of your current passport and visa for your student visa record. If you receive a new passport or visa during your studies, you must supply us with a copy. For a new passport, take a clear photograph or scan, and for a new visa, provide a new share code, and then attach this to an email containing:

• Your full name

• Your UEA Student ID number

• The reason you received a new passport and/or visa

Send this email to student.visacompliance@uea.ac.uk. The Student Visa Compliance team can then update your student visa record.

If your immigration status changes during your studies at UEA - for example, if you switch from a Student visa to a PBS Dependant visa - please contact Student Life International.  

Contact details and other personal details

Please make sure that your home and UK addresses, your personal email, mobile phone number and next of kin (family) contact information is up to date on e:Vision. If you need help with e:Vision please contact the Student Information Zone. If you go on placement as part of your course and move away from Norwich, you should also change your UK address then.

If you change your name, gender, or nationality, please contact Student Life International for support with updating your records. The University may need to see documentation as evidence of this change.

Updating UKVI

If your personal details have changed since your visa was issued, you will need to update the Home Office by updating your UKVI account. You can update the following using this service:

• Contact details including email address, phone number, addresses

• Name and Date of Birth corrections

• Identity document including passports

• Nationality

• Gender

• Photograph

• Give access for someone to assist you with your account

You will need to fill out a Migrant Change of Circumstances (MCC) form if any of the following change:

• You get a criminal conviction

• You separate from your partner

• Your legal representative’s details

• Any of your children stop living permanently with you

• Any other details as above where you do not have a, or are having issues with

  your, eVisa.

You can find further information on the Change in Circumstances UK Government webpages.

Useful Resources and Contact Details

For further information, please contact Student Life International. You can also check out the helpful advice and information available on the UKCISA website.