<p>Does anyone know how you claim in-state residency at a school you're attending and then pay in-state tuition after a few years? For example, lets say person X lived in Michigan and attended the University of Oregon. After their sophomore year, would they be able to claim Oregon residency (proof of mail or something) and then pay the in-state rates? I've heard about this "trick" before and wanted to know if you guys know how it works exactly.</p>
<p>If you are being claimed as a dependent on your parent's taxes, you are generally considered a citizen of your parents' state and thus ineligible for in-state tuition in another state.</p>
<p>One of the kids I know cheated his way into getting a New York State only scholarship for where I go...</p>
<p>I checked on establishing residency for my D. in VA. We own a condo there and she will have attended school there for 4 years and worked part-time. However, since we are NC residents, she is a NC resident unless she can establish that she has provided approx. 70% of her support over the last year (which of course she hasn't). We have not claimed her on taxes for 3 years, but that did not matter. Right now her plan is to finish at present school, work for a year, then apply to grad school as instate.</p>
<p>At my school you have to fill out a form to claim residency (I happen to have it infront of me too). You have to put information about how long you've been in the state, have you worked in the state, have you filed income taxes in the state, do you have a drivers license from the state, are you registered to vote in the state, do you have bank accounts in the state.. etc..
Then if you are under 24 years old you have to fill out similar information on both of your parents and say whether they claim you as a dependant or not.</p>
<p>Your school probably has a similar form available.</p>
<p>Usually there is a board of regence for the state that decides residency requirements. For example, my family lives in Nebraska but my father works in arizona. We have a house there, have liscensed vehicles, I have a arizona drivers liscense, and my parents pay property and income tax. Im going to asu and still might have to pay out of state tuition because im not graduating from a HS in arizona unless asu decided that im a special case. Its hard to get instate if you graduate from a HS in a different state.</p>
<p>dmbne87
you should be paying in-state tuition at ASU if your parents pay Arizona State and property taxes, no? After all, even if you lived in Arizona, you could be attending a private boarding school in another state. You should look up the ASU website and see their residency requirements.</p>
<p>I have, they told us that we had to apply as a nonresident then go through a petitioning process in april for instate. I still may be able to pay instate but its not for sure.</p>
<p>It looks like both parents have to be Arizona residents.</p>
<p>From the ASU website:
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<p>Dependent </p>
<p>If you are a dependent of parents who are permanently domiciled in Arizona, you may possibly qualify for reclassification without waiting 12 months. Both parents (unless divorced) must claim Arizona as their legal and permanent domicile. Students who are over 18 years of age when the semester begins must be claimed as a dependent for the most recent tax year. For students under 18 years, the domicile of the parent with legal custody will determine residency.
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<p>Chocoholic do you have a link to where you found that? Id like to show my parents</p>
<p>they also have phone numbers etc. if you have questions. It does seem unfair to me if your father lives and works in AZ, and obviously pays taxes there, that you should not qualify. Do you have particular circumstances that you can explain to them? Like why the rest of your family stayed back in NE? Was it so you could finish school there?</p>
<p>Most states do not allow you to establish residency simply for college purposes and require that you actually live in the state at least one year before applying to college.</p>
<p>For establishing state residency in oregon...</p>
<p>For purposes of admission and instruction fee assessment, an Oregon resident is a financially independent person with a domicile established and maintained in Oregon of not less than twelve consecutive months immediately prior to the term for which residence status is requested, during which time that individual is primarily engaged in activities other than those of being a college student. The term domicile denotes a persons true, fixed, and permanent home and place of habitation, the place where the person intends to remain and to which the person expects to return when leaving Oregon without intending to establish a new domicile elsewhere. These same criteria shall also be used to determine whether a person who has moved from the State has established a non-Oregon residence.</p>
<p>An individual who is financially dependent upon a parent or legal custodian who meets the requirements for resident classification above may also be classified as residents. Reliance on non-Oregon resources for financial support is an inference of residency in another state.</p>
<p>College Board's State residency guide</p>
<p>Yeah mainly so I could finish school and my mother loves her job and she wasn't ready to give it up.</p>