<p>Hi, so I'm 15 right now and I know I still have a few years but I really wanna know about it to see if I should move back to california.</p>
<p>I was born in California, so I'm an American citizen. I do have a california id card. However, I've never studied in America. I've been living in hong kong for my entire life.
My parents aren't American citizens and they've never really payed income tax or anything n we do not own any houses in California currently.
I would really like to know if I'm still considered as a California resident when i apply college! Please help and thank you so much!!!</p>
<p>You are a US citizen, but your residence is not currently in California, so you are not considered currently a California resident. Your residence is where your parents are. If your family moves back to California, now, and you enroll in high school AND they become “residents” by getting ID’s, paying taxes, buying a home, etc. then you might have enough time to establish residency… </p>
<p>For now, you’ll be paying out of state tuition.</p>
<p>Everyone in my family, including me, have a California id and both my parents have a California drivers license. But they arent American citizens. The address on our id is a California address.</p>
<p>Oh n I would be 18 when I apply college!!
Thanks for the help :)</p>
<p>You’re 15 so maybe that’s why you don’t understand.</p>
<p>Your family must be living in California, paying bills in California. If they haven’t returned since you were a young child and they have California ID’s, those ID’s don’t matter if your parents are not physically and currently living in California.</p>
<p>Newsflash: Everyone applies at 18. You will not be considered a California resident if you and your family are not living in California. If you were sitting now, living in a home in California with your parents, you would be considered California residents after having lived in California, CURRENTLY, for more than one year. Just because you were born in California, does not make you a resident of California FOREVER. You must reside in California to be considered a resident. Got it???</p>
<p>cookie: google “potemkin village”. That’s what you’ve been searching for.</p>
<p>You and your family are not residents because they currently don’t reside there and don’t pay income or property taxes to the state – which go to funding the tuition break for in-state students. It doesn’t matter that you have valid IDs issued by the state. OK?</p>