<p>I will be applying in the fall to Berkeley and was wondering if I would be considered an in-state applicant. I was born in California but moved to India about 6 years ago and attend high school here. We still maintain a house on California and my father spends about 6 months of the year there working in San Francisco. We also pay taxes to the state of california. Any help would be appreciated.</p>
<p>Honestly, I don't know. I was born in LA, moved to Arizona, Hawaii, Korea, then finally back to LA 6 years ago. My residency status is out-of-state for now.</p>
<p>I found this on the Berkeley website. </p>
<p>"Who is a California Resident?
If you are an adult ... and you want to be classified as a resident for tuition purposes, you must have established your continuous presence in California more than one year immediately preceding the residence determination date for the semester during which you propose to attend the University, and you must have given up any previous residence. You must also present objective evidence that you intend to make California your permanent home. Evidence of intent must be dated one year before the term for which you seek resident classification. If these steps are delayed, the one-year durational period will be extended until you have demonstrated both continuous presence and intent for one full year. Physical presence within the state solely for educational purposes does not constitute the establishment of California residence under state law, regardless of the length of your stay. Your residence cannot be derived from your spouse nor, since you are an adult, from your parents."</p>
<p>By the strictest interpretation, I DO NOT believe that you would be considered a resident for tuition purposes for your first year, because you will not meet the "continuous presence" part.This is different from other states definitions of residency for tuition purposes-- every other state site I am aware of says that if your financially responsible, custodial parent was a resident, then you were a resident. This is the first site that said anything about you being an adult and your physical presence in the state for one year blah, blah, blah.
But if you have a CA driver's license and are registered to vote in CA (for more than one year), and use your SF address as mailing address, then the only thing that will be a catch is the diploma from a school in India. </p>
<p>Any other ideas, anyone?</p>
<p>riyam -- if you have been in LA for 6 years, why do you think you are out-of-state?</p>
<p>If you are CA resident with you and your parents have tax returns filed as a CA resident, car registration, voter registration, etc., they may consider you a CA resident, most important question is whether India considers you a resident there? If you are spending time in a foreign country as a visitor, even long periods of time, you must be a resident of somewhere, so if you are not reaping the advantages of being a resident of India- for example is there a foreign tuition charge in India and do you pay it? Is it a boarding school?</p>
<p>I do not know what they would say if Mum is a resident of India and Dad of CA, except that if that happens between two divorced parents in two states, they say you are a resident of the state where you graduated from high school. I know families who have major foreign work adventures, but are still CA residents.</p>