Science and Engineering Graduate Scheme (SEGS)

"The Home Office recently announced some changes to the Science and Engineering Graduate Scheme (SEGS) which will affect postgraduate students who start their courses after 1st May 2006. SEGS has been extended so that any non-EEA postgraduate Masters or PhD student can apply for leave to remain in the UK to work for 1 year without requiring a work permit irrespective of their subject of study.Students can apply for SEGS before they are issued with their degree certificate. If they do not have a degree certificate, they can provide a letter from the institution confirming that they have completed the course at the required level (ie, they must have successfully completed all elements of the course before applying for SEGS). Undergraduate students can only apply to SEGS if their course is on a list of physical science, mathematics and engineering courses approved by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) and available on the website below.Further information about SEGS is available at http://www.workingintheuk.gov.uk/working_in_the_uk/en/homepa..." [Brief]