Helllpppp student finance revoked

anjum786mohammed

HI
Just received a shock of my life that my student finance has been revoked.
Let me start from the beginning, i was married in Pakistan in 2007, and my wife joined me in the UK in November 2011. I am currently in year 3 in uni. For the past 2 years i have stated in my student finance application that i am single due to the fact that i was not living with my wife and she was in Pakistan, she is a pakistani national. I have this year submitted my Pakistani marriage certificate to student finance as my wife has now joined me in the UK.
We have only been living as wife husband since November 2011 as in pakistani/islamic law a wife and husband can live together after a walima (a ceremony) takes place, this is after the marriage ceremony has taken place.
I have received a call from a student finance rep saying that i have falsely given inaccurate information in my previous years of study so i will not get paid any student loans, grants and tuition fees.
I feel this is too harsh as i have mistakenly given inaccurate information. I did not know that i had to tell student finance that a Nikkah (pakistani Marriage) had taken place.
Also i have read somewhere that pakistani marriages/nikkahs are not recoginised in the UK in the 1st place.
Pleaseeee can someone help me:sad::sad::sad::sad::sad::sad::sad::sad::sad:

Voyager2002

anjum786mohammed wrote: »

HI
Just received a shock of my life that my student finance has been revoked.
Let me start from the beginning, i was married in Pakistan in 2007, and my wife joined me in the UK in November 2011. I am currently in year 3 in uni. For the past 2 years i have stated in my student finance application that i am single due to the fact that i was not living with my wife and she was in Pakistan, she is a pakistani national. I have this year submitted my Pakistani marriage certificate to student finance as my wife has now joined me in the UK.
We have only been living as wife husband since November 2011 as in pakistani/islamic law a wife and husband can live together after a walima (a ceremony) takes place, this is after the marriage ceremony has taken place.
I have received a call from a student finance rep saying that i have falsely given inaccurate information in my previous years of study so i will not get paid any student loans, grants and tuition fees.
I feel this is too harsh as i have mistakenly given inaccurate information. I did not know that i had to tell student finance that a Nikkah (pakistani Marriage) had taken place.
Also i have read somewhere that pakistani marriages/nikkahs are not recoginised in the UK in the 1st place.
Pleaseeee can someone help me:sad::sad::sad::sad::sad::sad::sad::sad::sad:

Since you are currently at university, you should have access to student support services. I suggest that you use these services: they will have ways to contact Student Finance that are not available to ordinary users, and should be able to explain that you acted in good faith in providing information.

anjum786mohammed

thanks for the reply.
I have contacted student services and will meet someone tomorrow. Im just really worried i cant even think at the moment.
The thing is if i had knew that i had to tell them i would have been classed as a independent student which would have meant i would have had more payment in terms of grants etc from student finance.
I honestly did not give wrong information, i thought that as my wife is not in the UK, I do not have to say the im married.

Dunroamin

Surely you've posted about this before and been advised that your Pakistani wedding isn't considered to be valid?

anjum786mohammed

Dunroamin wrote: »

Surely you've posted about this before and been advised that your Pakistani wedding isn't considered to be valid?

i only asked if a marriage certificate was valid for adult depandants grant.
if a pakistani wedding is not valid why have they said that i was married and gave wrong information??????
but student finance do think it is valid unlike some of the posts on this website. If it was not valid then i would not be in a situation like this.

agrinnall

anjum786mohammed wrote: »

thanks for the reply.
I have contacted student services and will meet someone tomorrow. Im just really worried i cant even think at the moment.
The thing is if i had knew that i had to tell them i would have been classed as a independent student which would have meant i would have had more payment in terms of grants etc from student finance.
I honestly did not give wrong information, i thought that as my wife is not in the UK, I do not have to say the im married.

Good luck with it, I think it is a bit of a harsh response from Student Finance, but I also suspect you may have a battle on your hands because there is no doubt that you did in fact give them the wrong information. What you thought you had to do is irrelevant, it's what you actually have to do that counts.

anjum786mohammed

agrinnall wrote: »

Good luck with it, I think it is a bit of a harsh response from Student Finance, but I also suspect you may have a battle on your hands because there is no doubt that you did in fact give them the wrong information. What you thought you had to do is irrelevant, it's what you actually have to do that counts.

I get the feeling i have committed the biggest fraud in the history of student finance. :eek:
A person knows when he is married and when he is not married. Its like declaring a engagement and marriage is the same, it is but then again it aint.
I should of asked if i was not sure but i was sure that i was not married, if you know what i mean.
Even though if have committed a genuine mistake, its too too harsh. Most people will understand why i did what i did.

auroan

On another note. If your marriage isn't seen as valid, what VISA is your "wife" using to come to the UK ? Will there be other issues arise from this ? As agencies are starting to share more and more data with each other

anjum786mohammed

auroan wrote: »

On another note. If your marriage isn't seen as valid, what VISA is your "wife" using to come to the UK ? Will there be other issues arise from this ? As agencies are starting to share more and more data with each other

My wife is on a spouse visa, if the marriage was not valid then how did the british home office or whoever deals with visas, give her a visa, my feeling is it is valid but for some reasons student finaance decide to accept it and other reasons they dont. For me they did but for another person on this forum they did not.

auroan

anjum786mohammed wrote: »

for some reasons student finaance decide to accept it and other reasons they dont. For me they did but for another person on this forum they did not.

Don't go by forums on important stuff such as this. Get the info direct from source. I don't understand the "other reasons they don't" line. ...

anjum786mohammed

auroan wrote: »

Don't go by forums on important stuff such as this. Get the info direct from source. I don't understand the "other reasons they don't" line. ...

i have read somewhere in one of the posts that someone gave a nikkah marriage certificate and it was rejected because they did not accept this sort of marriage certificate, and numerous people have said that do not accept the nikkah, but if they did not accept it then why have they accepted mine????????????