<p>So, I'm applying for about 6 UC's. My parents are divorced and my father lives in California. If I apply now, I'll be considered OOS. However if I move to California before/on my 18th birthday, I can obtain residency. If UC's have admitted me thinking I was coming in from OOS, can they retract their admission if I become an in-state resident?</p>
<p>Should I change my address on FAFSA to my future California address?</p>
<p>Just wondering! :)</p>
<p>What makes you think you will be able to establish residency simply by moving to California? I think you need to check your facts about establishing CA residency.</p>
<p>Fact is…you are NOT going to be a CA resident for the 2013-2014 school year even if you move there TODAY. You would need to reside in the state for at least 12 months prior to your college enrollment…with the parent who is an instate resident.</p>
<p>Are you applying for fall 2013? </p>
<p>If yes, then you cannot fill out the FAFSA until January 1, 2013</p>
<p>If you don’t graduate from a California high school, your instate residency claim will be very closely scrutinized. Most RESIDENTS of the state graduate from CA high schools unless they are attending private, residential high schools out of state.</p>
<p>When IS your 18th birthday?</p>
<p>Hopefully, you have read the requirements that the UCs and each UC has for residency purposes. However, more important is how these requirements are enforced at each school. Work with the office of each such school, and make sure your things are in order. Thumper is pointing out some important things to remember when one is applying for instate tuition. Still, my experience, limited and not in California, has seen a lot of kids of divorced parents permitted to get in state status. It just isn’t a sure thing and things change even if they were. Make sure you have some other alternatives in place just in case. UC acceptance is not easy even for CA residents and are not safety schools.</p>
<p>Actually, I believe there is a way for you to qualify for in state tuition if you move in with your in state resident parent BEFORE your 18th birthday. If not, then you could also do some research on the Condit Bill. It is an exemption for students with one OOS parent and one IN STATE parent and allows the student to be granted in state tuition. There are some requirements for it, so look it up on google 
I am not sure whose parent information you would need to put on the fafsa if you were going to go ahead with the condit bill. I would contact an admissions counselor and explain to them that you would like some information on the condit bill, and if you were exempted from OOS tuition under that bill, whose parent info would you need to put on the fafsa…ur oos parent or the parent under whom you will be “dependent” on.</p>
<p>You have options, just be sure to research them all and talk in depth about them with a professional who can help you out. Good luck!! :)</p>
<p>No need to be so harsh thumper1 lol. I think you should also check your facts because she does have some options :)</p>
<p>The OP can find out more about the Condit Bill [url=<a href=“http://registrar.sa.ucsb.edu/condit.htm][b]here[/b][/url”>404 - Page Not Found]here[/url</a>].</p>
<p>The problem is that the Condit Bill allows a qualifying student in-state tuition rates for one year only. At that point, if the student isn’t able to demonstrate California residency (independent of the in-state parent), the tuition rate will shoot back up to the OOS rate, at which point school becomes unaffordable again.</p>
<p>So, it’s an interesting option, but without very careful research, could leave you stranded after only one year of college!</p>
<p>I don’t believe I was being harsh. College is four more than one year. Presumably the student is looking for instate tuition for all four years of college. I believe this will be an uphill quest.</p>
<p>The OP, and anyone else in a similar situation, has THREE issues. The first is getting instate tuition for all four years, the second is need based aid, and the third is the FAFSA.</p>
<p>Public universities in every state have regulations for instate residency status for tuition and this varies by SCHOOL in many states. In other words, you have to check each college for their policies. Some states do have provisions for the students of divorced parents. CA’s Condit is one way to look at this, but as pointed out, one year only.</p>
<p>Getting instate residency status does NOT guarantee getting need based aid from CA public universities. The vast majority of state need based aid comes in the form of the Calgrant and this student’s eligibility for that would need to be checked with the Calgrant guidelines. Since he/she is not graduating from a CA high school, this would at least be questionable.</p>
<p>Then there is the FAFSA issue. The FAFSA is federally regulated. It is very clear that only the custodial parent is listed…the parent with whom the student resides greater than 50% of the time in 2012 MUST be listed on the 2013-2014 FAFSA.</p>
<p>The OP will qualify for instate residency if she moves in with her father prior to turning 18 (and he meets residency requirements).</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.ucop.edu/ogc/documents/uc-residence-policy.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ucop.edu/ogc/documents/uc-residence-policy.pdf</a></p>
<p>Permanent Separation or Divorce of Parents
If a minor student’s parents are separated or divorced, the residence of the parent with whom the minor maintains his principal place of abode will be considered the residence of the minor.</p>
<p>The principal place of abode is typically the residence of the parent with whom the student spends the majority of his time. Thus, the principal place of abode for a student who spends the school year with one parent and summers with the other would be the home of the parent with whom the student lives during the school year.</p>
<p>A minor student will derive residence through a California-resident parent only if s/he begins living with the California parent prior to attaining majority (18th birthday). In this case, the student is not required to fulfill the 366-day physical presence requirement; however, the California parent must satisfy the University’s requirements for residence for tuition purposes. The burden is on the student to provide clear and convincing
evidence that s/he actually changed their domicile to their California resident parent’s home prior to the student’s 18th birthday. The parent has the burden of providing clear and convincing evidence that California has been their primary home for 366 days and that s/he has severed ties to his former out-of-state home.</p>
<p>Thanks, MLM, I am helping a student now who also has this situation. I appreciate this link! (And your research. :))</p>
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<p>This is flat out untrue!</p>
<p>As noted above (as well as in the link provided by MLM!), an out-of-state student can obtain a one-year exception to in-state residence requirements under the Condit Bill if the student has a parent residing in California and, thereafter, can qualify as a California resident for tuition purposes without having to establish financial independence, so long as the California resident parent is providing support for the student.</p>
<p>So, yes, moving to California prior to the student’s 18th birthday is an option . . . but it is not the only way for a student in this situation to qualify for in-state tuition.</p>
<p>I agree that these two young women (and anyone else wishing to benefit from the Condit Bill) need to talk to the colleges regarding how this will be dealt with in subsequent years. To be honest, in reading the information here, it’s not completely clear. </p>
<p>Just make sure that you know the provisions to maintain instate status and will be able to adhere to them.</p>
<p>There are a number of things that one does have to watch in using the Condit Bill. There has to be evidence of support, for example. Do read carefully what that evidence needs to be. </p>
<p>Anyone looking to qualify as state resident, when living OOS, has to check out how carefully and intently a school beats the bushes to out such students. Some schools don’t care, some check every letter of the laws.</p>
<p>All of you, thank you so much! I did check the residency requirements before posting this and my birthday is the day after finals at my school so I will be able to move in. (Yay for being young!) I should’ve linked it. Good to know more about the specifics, I’m planning on making a driver’s appointment on the day I arrive and getting a California’s license. My dad has been living in California for 6+ years and he pays taxes so he definitely qualifies for residency.</p>
<p>Also, thanks for the information on the Condit Bill! I wasn’t aware of it!</p>
<p>Glad to hear it’s going to work out for you!</p>