Offer holder information

For details of how to send us documents, see the email updates sent to offer holders.

If you need any clarification or experience difficulties accessing any documents, email the Admissions Office at admissions@queens.cam.ac.uk.

By 30 April 2026

• Certificates of Academic Qualifications taken before your UCAS application.Please check carefully for all which are relevant to you:
  • If you have already completed some or all qualifications, including GCSEs and high school transcripts, please now send us copies of the official award certificates for qualifications you have already completed at secondary or high school level.
  • If you have completed and declared music qualifications such as ABRSM, please provide these certificates.
  • We cannot accept interim, provisional or unofficial documents, including statements of results from schools or an organisation which does not award the qualifications.
  • You may be asked to bring the original certificates to be verified at the start of your course.

By 30 June 2026

• Financial Information Form.
  • All Home students must complete this form.
  • If you will be applying for Government Agency funding support, use this form to give us details of your pending or current application.
  • If you are not applying for Government Agency funding support, use this form to let us know that funds will be provided by other general means (we do not require specific details).The document Fees, Finance and Student Support is a very useful reference about how funding works and what the College requires.

• Responsibility of Fees and Finances Form
  • All Home students must complete this form.
  • The completed form must have a written signature (handwritten or electronic, not typed).

• Photo ID
  • This must be in the form of a scanned copy of the photo and personal details pages of a valid passport.
  • All new students, both UK and international, will be asked to bring their original passport to College on arrival in October, for verification and registration.
  • If you do not have this form of identification, please contact us at admissions@queens.cam.ac.uk as soon as possible.

By 31 August 2026

• Certificates of Academic Qualifications taken after your UCAS application.Please check carefully for all which are relevant to you:
  • If you have already completed some or all qualifications, please now send us copies of the official award certificates.
  • For ALL students, we require electronic copies of certificates relating to any completed examinations and qualifications referred to in your UCAS application. This includes;
    • GCSEs, IGCSEs, AS and A Levels.
    • This includes ANY achieved qualifications which are not UK A Level examinations (e.g., Scottish Highers and Advanced Highers, International A Levels, Pre-U, International Baccalaureate, European Baccalaureate, Irish Leaving Certificate, Abitur, Matura, Erretsegi, ATAR, STEP etc.).
  • If you have pending qualifications that are not UK A Levels, you should supply copies of official examination certificates for these as soon as possible after receiving your results. We may request that original documents or results are sent to us directly from an organisation, such as College Board.
  • If you have pending qualifications and will take examinations for UK A Levels or STEP, we should receive your results directly from the awarding body and you do not need to send us these separately.
  • If you have an unconditional or deferred offer with no academic conditions, please now supply us with copies of certificates for all formal education qualifications, including any from the UK, e.g. GCSE, AS & A Levels, International Baccalaureate, Scottish Advanced Highers.
  • If you have certificates which are in a language other than English, you must supply a satisfactory certified translation in English.

You can find a list of qualifications which are sent to institutions by UCAS on their website, under How Your Exam Results Get To Universities And Colleges | UCAS.

You must also send any documents for formal music examinations, such as with ABRSM, taken and declared on your UCAS application. Do not send us any other certificates that are not formal education qualifications.

You should send electronic documents – if this is not possible, please note that we are generally unable to return any documents received by post and there may be a delay in receiving or processing these.

Please be aware that for qualifications taken in summer 2026 which have not been provided to us directly by the exam board(s), we will ask to see original documents on arrival at College.

For details of how to send us documents, see the email updates sent to offer holders.

Please note the need to allow sufficient time for all due processes if you will require a UK visa.

If you need any clarification or experience difficulties accessing any documents, email the Admissions Office at admissions@queens.cam.ac.uk.

By 30 April 2026

• Certificates of Academic Qualifications taken before your UCAS application.Please check carefully for all which are relevant to you:
  • If you have already completed some or all qualifications, including GCSEs and high school transcripts, please now send us copies of the official award certificates for qualifications you have already completed at secondary or high school level.
  • If you have completed and declared music qualifications such as ABRSM, please provide these certificates.
  • We cannot accept interim, provisional or unofficial documents, including statements of results from schools or an organisation which does not award the qualifications.
  • You may be asked to bring the original certificates to be verified at the start of your course.

By 30 April 2026

or earlier if requested by the College or University

• Passport
  • Send us a scanned copy of the photo page of your valid passport. If you do not already reside in the UK with the right to study, this must be the passport you will use to enter and study in the UK.
  • If your passport will be renewed before the start of your course, you must notify us of the arrangements and dates for renewal. All new students, both UK and international, will be asked to bring their original passport to College for registration.
• Visas/Immigration Share Code
  • The College and the University’s International Students Office will contact individuals whom we believe will require a visa.
  • If you do not have UK citizenship or immigration status granting you the right to unlimited entry to the United Kingdom, you may require an entry visa.
  • If you may require a visa and have not received any communication about this by the end of March, you must contact us urgently.
  • If you currently hold a BRP or existing visa of any type, please upload a scanned copy along with your passport so that we can verify your right to study in the UK.
  • Failure to obtain the correct visa may result in you being unable to take up your place at Cambridge. You must ensure you follow all visa application instructions and deal with all related matters urgently.

We recommend reading the information on the following official websites:

http://www.ukcisa.org.uk

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/visas-immigration/studying/adult-students/

• Financial Guarantee
  • All overseas students must complete a satisfactory Financial Guarantee Form.
  • These are specific to individuals and are sent by email in February 2026.

If you undertake to make a financial guarantee and you subsequently default on payment, you may be required to leave your course of study.

Unless you will receive a financial award from a British Government Authority or other British Government Agency:

1. You will be required to pay each term’s University and College fees in advance on request from the Student Fees office.
2. You must produce, before 30 June 2026, or 30 April 2026 if you will require a visa, evidence that you have readily available financial support to cover your fees and maintenance for the whole length of your course.

By 30 June 2026

or earlier if you will need a visa and sufficient time for us to process your documents accordingly

• English Language Assessment – this is the final deadline but we strongly advise providing the test report earlier if you will need time to apply for a visa.
  • If you have been asked to undertake an IELTS Academic as part of your offer, send us a copy of your assessment report as soon as possible, clearly indicating the test report number. We will verify these directly with IELTS.

By 31 August 2026

• • Certificates of Academic Qualifications taken after your UCAS application.Please check carefully for all which are relevant to you:
    • If you have already completed some or all qualifications, please now send us copies of the official award certificates.
    • For ALL students, we require electronic copies of certificates relating to any completed examinations and qualifications referred to in your UCAS application. This includes;
      • GCSEs, IGCSEs, AS and A Levels.
      • This includes ANY achieved qualifications which are not UK A Level examinations (e.g., Scottish Highers and Advanced Highers, International A Levels, Pre-U, International Baccalaureate, European Baccalaureate, Irish Leaving Certificate, Abitur, Matura, Erretsegi, ATAR, STEP etc.).
    • If you have pending qualifications that are not UK A Levels, you should supply copies of official examination certificates for these as soon as possible after receiving your results. We may request that original documents or results are sent to us directly from an organisation, such as College Board.
    • If you have pending qualifications and will take examinations for UK A Levels or STEP, we should receive your results directly from the awarding body and you do not need to send us these separately.
    • If you have an unconditional or deferred offer with no academic conditions, please now supply us with copies of certificates for all formal education qualifications, including any from the UK, e.g. GCSE, AS & A Levels, International Baccalaureate, Scottish Advanced Highers.
    • If you have certificates which are in a language other than English, you must supply a satisfactory certified translation in English.

  You can find a list of qualifications which are sent to institutions by UCAS on their website, under How Your Exam Results Get To Universities And Colleges | UCAS.

  You must also send any documents for formal music examinations, such as with ABRSM, taken and declared on your UCAS application. Do not send us any other certificates that are not formal education qualifications.

  You should send electronic documents – if this is not possible, please note that we are generally unable to return any documents received by post and there may be a delay in receiving or processing these.

  Please be aware that for qualifications taken in summer 2026 which have not been provided to us directly by the exam board(s), we will ask to see original documents on arrival at College.