<p>Hi cc I am going to UT next fall and I have a question. </p>
<p>I have a lot of family that live in the Dallas ft worth area and if I applied for in state residency (currently on ny) does having family in Tx change or help anything and if so how?</p>
<p>Unless you are a dependent of someone living in D/FW (either your parent or your legal guardian) and they have maintained a residence in Texas for a minimum of 12 months prior to you enrolling, no it doesn’t help. It’s the law.</p>
<p>Residency is an issue because there are so many price tags on every college campus.</p>
<p>Blutz,</p>
<p>If your relative is willing to add your name to the title of their home, you establish that you moved to Dallas the summer before you start school, get a license, get a job, and oyur parents don’t declare you as a dependent…You can be instate after a year. Takes a little work…worth a 60k savings over the last three years of school.</p>
<p>If your high school transcripts come from an out-of-state school you’re going to have a hard time claiming you’re a Texan. You need to be able to prove legal residency for a year, and you cannot have been a student anywhere – not even at a community college – for that year.</p>
<p>^spdf, that’s not correct. UT will let you use your freshman year as the year requried for residency. That’s what UT told me directly, and socaldad42 was able to do that for his daughter.</p>
<p>??? Then there are no out-of-state students after freshman year?</p>
<p>^No, living there for a year is only ONE of the requirements - see socaldad42’s post #4.</p>
<p>Getting a relative to add your name to the title of their home sounds like a really good idea. Officially move to Texas after you graduate high school. Switch your driver’s license to Texas and register to vote in Texas as soon as you can - the summer before freshman year starts. Get a job in Texas. Study the requirements for becoming a resident and talk to an advisor to make sure you are doing it right. Texas really values people who own property and pay taxes in Texas; they are unusually willing to give students in-state residency under their “establishing domicile” rules.
[Establishing</a> Residency | Texas Residency | Be a Longhorn](<a href=“http://bealonghorn.utexas.edu/residency/establishing/]Establishing”>http://bealonghorn.utexas.edu/residency/establishing/)</p>
<p>mwm and maine are both correct.</p>
<p>We did as said above, and it worked. Maine is well on her way to success as well. It is done by many. It takes work…but well worth it.</p>
<p>Im planning on transfering to UT in Spring 2012. After this summer my parents would be texas residents for 12 months, but they have not had a Texas ID. But I have been studying in a CC in Plano, Texas for year. Will this help meet residency requirements for instate tution?</p>
<p>It sounds to me as if your parents have established domicile in Texas, which should make you a Texas resident. Call and ask.
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<p>Thanks for the contacts. I will surely call them
What is a domicile?</p>
<p>bkh,</p>
<p>domicile |ˈd</p>
<p>What about if someone has had a Texas license with renewal over the past 10 years, but lived in a different state for the last 5 years? And this person never signed a lease to anything, just subletted?</p>