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Hi pls help me stay in the uk thx

TL; DR: I need £1000 by end of July to pay my college otherwise they will withdraw my student visa. If I get £4000 I can pay all the fees I owe and stop having to worry about this forever. With £4862 I can afford to apply for an ancestral visa and stay for *5 years*. 

If there's any way you could help, if you can afford even a couple of pounds, or share, that'd be amazing <3 

I really hate these kind of funding platforms because they normalize the kind of individualistic volunteerist entrepreneur/fundraiser who is usually in need because of the failure of the state to support human beings.  Thus, they serve to bolster the narrative that anyone can ‘make it on their own if they work hard enough’ etc. allowing the state and other institutions (universities for example) to continue distancing from education, welfare etc etc. 


That said, I REALLY NEED MONEY OTHERWISE I’M GOING TO GET DEPORTED AT THE END OF THIS MONTH. Basically, I owe the university fee money due to a) ridiculous international student fees (over £16 000), b) the fact that these fees are raised each year since I started the degree, which isn’t covered by my funders and c) the fact that the Rand/Pound exchange rate has fallen loads since moving here (I am funded in Rands)  d) that I lost funding at the end of my first year at the university and e) the fact that it has taken me longer than the minimum time to do my PhD because of a combination of mental health stuff and survival stuff (see below)

If I can’t pay the money I owe, the university will withdrawal sponsorship of my visa and I won’t be able to stay in the country even long enough to finish my PhD.

As many of you know, visa restrictions on students mean only legally being allowed to work 20 hours a week, making it impossible to save money and live in London. These restrictions also mean you can’t enroll part time, meaning I have been working twenty hours each week in pretty demanding jobs and trying to do a degree full time, see also mental health issues and I’ve ended up taking longer than I’d have liked to do the PhD (will be just over 4 years). So yeah, no idea how else to try and raise money, and pretty desperate.

Reasons to help me stay in the UK:

1)   I won’t be really sad and won’t have failed at this big thing and won’t have to leave my partner (the best person) & friends & art ppl and stuff

2)   Some other people will also not be made super sad, esp. aforementioned partner, friends etc.

3)   I promise to shout at as many awful misogynist men as humanly possible for the duration of my stay as well as try my best to organise against sexism, racism, transphobia and all state and institutional violences 

 

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