<p>Your parents will have to file the FAFSA in addition to US income taxes. Your US income taxes will be used as part of the verification process to award you financial aid. The net -net is that your parents will have to either; submit their taxes using the IRS data retrieval, submit a copy of their IRS transcript, or submit a copy of their non-filers tax statement, or you cannot receive any federal aid. As part of the institutional aid process, Cornell will require copies of your parents US income taxes (which they still must file even though they do not reside in the US)</p>
<p>Your uncle is not your parent and cannot file taxes for you.</p>
<p>Yes…your PARENTS as U.S. citizens living abroad will be required to file tax returns…2013 absolutely, 2012 probably, and they should be prepared to file every year while you are in college. There is a foreign income exemption…so they might not actually need to PAY any taxes…but as U.S. citizens, if they are working, they are required to file.</p>
<p>And as Sybbie noted…if they don’t file, you will NOT be able to receive any federally funded aid including Direct and Plus loans.</p>
<p>And your uncle is NOT considered in this mix AT ALL. Not for any reason.</p>
<p>Your parents need to file their US income tax forms. However, as they are living outside the US, there is the probability that they won’t owe any US taxes on their foreign income. That means that unless they have a lot of income from US sources, it also is probable that they won’t owe any US tax at all. We used to live outside the US and I filed out paperwork every year. We never owed one cent in US taxes during that time. Your parents need to read up on this at the IRS website. Here is one link that will be helpful for them: [Foreign</a> Earned Income Exclusion](<a href=“http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/International-Taxpayers/Foreign-Earned-Income-Exclusion]Foreign”>Foreign Earned Income Exclusion | Internal Revenue Service)</p>
<p>Clarification: i didnt mean my uncle would file taxes. I meant he could potentially co sign for loans if my parents are ineligible. </p>
<p>And i will read the website and let my dad know we will have to file</p>
<p>Your uncle, a US citizen will have to co-sign for a private loan through a bank in the US. He must reside in the US and the bank will determine whether or not he is credit worthy to co-sign for a loan. He will have to be re-evaluated every year that you are in school</p>