<p>I have a F-1 Visa. I'm also assigned a social security number for working on campus. I don't have a green card.</p>
<p>By terms of qualifications, I don't qualify for the FAFSA because I have no green card. But someone in the past, I recall, told me that I should submit the application anyway. Is this something I should do.</p>
<p>No you shouldn’t and you can’t. One of the earliest questions has you select “citizen” or “eligible non-citizen” - you are neither. </p>
<p>American students are advised to submit the FAFSA even if they don’t think they would qualify for financial aid based on income. That reasoning does not apply to international students because they are not eligible for federal financial aid at all.</p>
<p>Some colleges and universities use results of the FAFSA to determine eligibility for their own institutional aid even though a student does not qualify for federal aid. This might be what someone told you. Whether or not ISU works this way is something I don’t know. Call the financial aid office and/or international student office and ask them.</p>
<p>Go Cyclones!</p>
<p>The problem is that international students are literally unable to complete the form. The only two citizenship/immigration options are “citizen” (a blatant lie) and “eligible non-citizen” (requires input of an alien registration number, which F-1 students don’t have). It is not possible to file the FAFSA as a means to communicate financial information to colleges without actually applying for federal financial aid in the process. There are other financial aid forms for international students.</p>
<p>as borium said, you definitely dont qualify To Utilize the FAFSA. However, you should contact your college about obtaining the necessary pin codes and authorizations for their own personal institutional funds that they might offer using the same FAFSA-style equation. They might be able to let you use a spare registration number or one that is currently not being used by any other students or international applicants, for example, or may allow you to imput the information into a similar need calculator that is not related to the federal system.</p>
<p>Contact your school to find out what to do. They will tell you their process for applying for aid as an international student AND whether you are eligible. They will tell you what forms to complete, and give you all the necessary information.</p>
<p>They will give you PIN access IF they are able to do so. They are not going to give you a PIN that isn’t being used by another student. IF they give you a PIN…it will be for you to use…and it won’t be a leftover from someone else.</p>
<p>But you also need to know that ISU does not guarantee to meet full need for ANYONE. Your aid options could be very limited. That you are international possibly complicates the issue further. </p>
<p>Your current residency status makes you ineligible for any federally funded need based aid. </p>
<p>Are you paying out of state tuition at ISU?</p>
<p>when I got my first Job on campus, My College order me to submit my application online just so the could have my information in their databases regardless of whether I qualify for Financial aid or not. </p>
<p>So don’t listen anybody here, they (well,. we lol) don’t know how your school works and may give you a bad advice that generally might be true but does not apply to you College, So just go to the International Student department and Financial Aid at your College and ask them yourself, You never know what you’re going to need it for (it’s not only used for Financial purposes, so better just ask your College since every institution is different.</p>