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I was enrolled in a student exchange program for a two-week internship at a university in the UK, but unfortunately my visa's processing got delayed, and I received my passport with visa too late and missed the course. I hold a Palestinian passport.

Now I'm thinking to use my visa to enter the UK again this summer ,to attend a conference. I'm afraid that I would get rejected since my visa was approved for study, and the course that I was attending has finished.

Is there a risk in attempting, or I can enter the uk with no troubles? I do have the visa, but it's a short-term study visa, Type C.

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There is definitely a risk attached to trying to use a short-term study visa granted for a specific internship to enter the UK as a visitor to attend a totally unconnected conference.

Immigration Rule 321A (1) provides that a person’s leave to enter may be cancelled at port or while the holder is outside the UK if there has been a change in circumstances https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules/immigration-rules-part-9-grounds-for-refusal

It would be advisable to contact the embassy that issued your visa to ask if your change of purpose of travel is acceptable.

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