Mr. Graham Doyle:

If somebody has not applied he or she cannot come to us. For this year the deadline for priority processing was 1 August for new applications, but we extended this to 6 November. Even after the deadline we take late applications, but they must be dealt with as late applications. They cannot be considered as a change of circumstances if we do not have an application in the first place. We need to receive the information from the student. The number of late applications we receive after the closing date is not huge. Normally they are from people who either have a change of circumstances or somebody starting a course in January or February of the following year.