After countless trips to the administration offices and hour upon hours of hardship, brother Saifud-Deen and Iliyas have managed to get the Brits flights rebooked. The flights for the British students have been rebooked with Qatar Airways for Sunday the 4th of March. The two brothers are currently finalising and paying for the tickets. So once the tickets are finalised hopefully the new students will be able to access their tickets information on the Qatar Airways website.

It has been confirmed that only 7 of the 19 Brits who were accepted have arrived in Madinah. One student has confirmed that he is unable to come and two have not been heard from, Ameri Ramin and Nahad Abas (according to his application he lives in Kenya).

The remaining 9 Students are:

Muhammad Abubakar from Layton NE London

Kennis Benjamin Diedrick (Fudhayl) From Manchester

Rilwan Adesina Mayowa Bamidele Araba From Leytonstone NE London

Helal Uddin From Leicestershire

Haroon Duncan Karim Metwali From Hammersmith W London

Stephen Graham Andrew Toms (Muhammad) From Birmingham

Hussein Jamal Hussein From Tottenham N London

Uwais Muhamad Khan from Leed

Kieran Hugh Hamm-Pascoe (Siddiq) From SE London

The British representatives of the Arabic Department Saifud-Deen and Iliyas went to the head of the Travel Department in the University this morning to discuss the current UK ticket situation. He did not appear to be aware of it and told them to return tomorrow morning to see what can be done, I have dealt with him several times and he is a good man and is respected by the students.

So please have patience and we will wait and see what the Head of The Travel Department says tomorrow.

If you choose to post a comment please make it constructive, I know you are all very anxious and just want to get to Madinah, but negative comments can be disheartening others, so if you write something make it beneficial or remain silent.

May Allah reward you all for your patience in your quests to seek knowledge of His religion.

Abu Unays Mujaahid Al-Iscotlandee

It has come to light that the confirmed bookings that the New Brits had on Qatar Airways (Saturday 4-Feb-12) has been cancelled. The reason for the cancelation of the group booking for the 19 Brits is unclear. I phoned one of the British students from the Hadith Department a short time ago (Numan) and he will be going to the worker (Amr, From Al-Tayar Travel Agents) who booked the tickets to find out exactly what is going on.

The Islamic University of Madinah buys the tickets for its students from two different places: the Saudi Airlines tickets from the Saudi Airlines office in the University, and they buy tickets for other Airlines from Al-Tayar travel agent which has a branch on the University campus also. So the Qatar Airways tickets for the Brits were booked and purchased at the Tayar Travel Agent office in the University. The brother Amr who booked the tickets only books the tickets he does not make the decisions or pay the fines, the university admission department makes these decisions.

Some students are now stating they want to buy their own tickets, I advise you all with patience and Dua, we should wait and find out what brother Numan finds out tomorrow.

Can all the brits please email me or post a comment explaining their current sitiuation, because some students have already arrived in Madinah and some students have not been heard from in some time, and some want to buy their own tickets.

'Anakumullah

Abu Unays Mujaahid

Some of the new British Students have announced that the £100 fee that Qatar airways had been requesting has been paid for, so all the new Brits can get their Qatar Airways Tickets. The flight leaves London Heathrow on Saturday 4th of February. The tickets have already been rebooked once with a lot of difficulty, so make sure you make the flight or you will probably have to pay for a new ticket from your own pocket.

I have been informed by a student’s father that the new British students’ Qatar Airways tickets have been rebooked for Sunday 4th of February. However he told me that Qatar Airways is saying that each student must pay £100 for the rebooking and that they must pay it by Friday 20-1-2012, i.e. today.

I is advised that you all phone Qatar Airways today before 16:30 and enquire about your ticket. The UK phone number is 0844 8468380.

I request that you all post a comment stating what you have found out and what your plan to do so to help each other out.

Whether to pay the £100 or not, I do not know what to advise you all with except to pray salatul-Istikhara. I will try to phone someone in the University Administration I know but I don’t know if it will be much help.

May Allah Help Us All

Abu Unays Mujaahid

If you have still not recieved your acceptance letter or number you must email scanned copies of the following documents:

1.Passport (Page With Photo)

2. Birth Certificate

3. 1 Educational Certificate

4. Passport Style Photo

Send them to admission@iu.edu.sa

state your name as it is mentioned on the 2011/12 Acceptance List and state your nationality.

You can write it in English but only mention what is stated above. Long winded stories will not be understood because their english is not too strong.

From: Adesina

As Salamu Alaykum brothers,

I spoke to one travel agent today and he mentioned that he does visas for Madinah students for FREE. This includes the e-number Alhamdulillah. You will need to provide your original passport, acceptance letter from the university, medical letter and a visa authorisation letter from the cultural attaché.

Here are the contact details:

UK:

Britannia Consular Services LTD.

Osman

102 Star Street,

London, W2 1QF.

T: 0207 724 1070

F: 0207 262 6172

M: 077 3333 5275

osman@britanniaconsularservices.com

Alhamdulillah one of the British students went in to the admissions office this morning to enquire about the New British Students expired flight tickets. He was informed that all the tickets of the British nationals have been rebooked ten days from now. So If you are a new brit check your page on the admission website to see if your flight has been updated.