# The Higher Education (Qualifying Courses and Qualifying Persons) (Wales) Regulations 2026, Paragraph 8: Protected Ukrainian nationals and their family members

Extent: E+W

(1) A protected Ukrainian national who is ordinarily resident in—
(a) the United Kingdom and the Islands and has not ceased to be so resident since becoming a protected Ukrainian national, and
(b) the United Kingdom on the first day of the first academic year of the course.
(2) A person who—
(a) is the spouse or civil partner of a protected Ukrainian national,
(b) on the leave application date, was the spouse or civil partner of that person,
(c) is ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and the Islands and has not ceased to be so resident since being granted leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom, and
(d) is ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom on the first day of the first academic year of the course.
(3) A person who—
(a) is—
(i) the child of a protected Ukrainian national, or
(ii) the child of a spouse or civil partner of a protected Ukrainian national,
(b) on the leave application date was—
(i) under 18 years old, and
(ii) the child of the protected Ukrainian national or, as the case may be, the child of a person who was the spouse or civil partner of a protected Ukrainian national,
(c) is ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and the Islands and has not ceased to be so resident since being granted leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom, and
(d) is ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom on the first day of the first academic year of the course.
(4) In this paragraph—
“leave application date” (“dyddiad y cais i gael caniatâd i ddod i mewn neu i aros”) means the date on which a person (“P”) made an application for leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom that results in P becoming a protected Ukrainian national;
“protected Ukrainian national” (“gwladolyn Wcreinaidd a ddiogelir”) means a person who has leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom granted—
(a) under any of the following provisions of Appendix Ukraine Scheme of the immigration rules—
(i) paragraph UKR 9.1 (Ukraine Family Scheme);
(ii) paragraph UKR 19.1 (Homes for Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme);
(iii) paragraph UKR 27.1 (Ukraine Extension Scheme);
(iv) paragraph UKR 36.1 (Ukraine Permission Extension Scheme), or
(b) outside the immigration rules, where the person—
(i) was residing in Ukraine immediately before 1 January 2022, and
(ii) left Ukraine in connection with the Russian invasion which took place on 24 February 2022.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/52/schedule/paragraph/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/higher-education-qualifying-courses-and-qualifying-persons-wales-regulations-2026/schedule/paragraph-8
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.