<p>"The Social Security Administration did not confirm that you are a U.S.
citizen. You must provide your school with documentation of your citizenship
status before you can receive federal student aid."</p>
<p>Ok, so I went to the Social Security Administration and they told me that the problem was fixed but when i tried to resubmit corrections and it is still not processing them even though I've done it like 5 times.</p>
<p>1.)What do I do now? I got an EFC but does it still get sent to the colleges that I applied to or not?
2.)How do I prove to the colleges that I am a citizen? Do they contact me or do I have to submit a copy of my passport to all of them (which would be very annoying)? (I applied mostly to UCs, if that helps.)
3.)When I get admitted into college, is my financial aid letter award going to be delayed? Will I still get it with my admission letter?</p>
<p>Don't worry. Colleges will still get your FAFSA information and nothing will be delayed. Later on you will be contacted by your colleges to provide proof of citizenship (aka passport or naturalization certificate) to finalize financial aid aword.</p>
<p>Pick up the telephone and call the schools that you have applied to. Ask what you will need to do to accommodate them. You probably could send documentation that you really are a citizen (such as a photocopy of your US birth certificate or of your US passport). If I recall correctly, you aren't supposed to photocopy a certificate of naturalization, so if that is the only citizenship document you have, you should ask what each school wants you to do.</p>
<p>Do not be surprised if each school requests different documents.</p>
<p>Also, don't be surprised if you can't send in a copy of your documents. You may be required to present the original in person (to verify that you are the person pictured).</p>
<p>I have the same question.
I got selected for verification based on my citizenship record and should i send the documents now or when the colleges request me to?
should i send the documents to even the ones i dont know if i got accepted into or not?
and when do the colleges contact me if they need further proof for my federal aid?
Please help me!
I'm so lost at this =/</p>
<p>my D had the same problem and we sent the photocopy of the US passport after we fixed the problem with the social security administration. we sent the proof to all colleges she applied for.. even if only 2 out of 14 requested it!!</p>
<p>when did the colleges request it?
around what month?
cause i haven't heard anything from the financial aid centers of the colleges i applied to whether they need proof or not.
i'm hearing mixed answers on this. some are saying do send it to all of your colleges you applied and others are saying wait till they request it or until you've gotten in.</p>
<p>i had the same problem..call this number 1-800-4-FED-AID and tell them that you had a problem with your social security number and that u have now gotten it fixed..they will then talk to you step by step on how to resubmit your fafsa so the message doesn't reappear...it takes less than 10 mins. and it works..good luck</p>
<p>so to solve this problem we need 1) ask the college what they want us to send them and 2) contact social security administration (call 1-800-4-FED-AID ?) and tell them the problem?</p>
<p>i fixed the problem with the SS and i sent a proof of citizenship to all the schools, but i did not call 1-800-4-FED-AID… maybe i should! I have the feeling that the schools which requested the proof of citizenship are the ones which gonna accepted you… if not why not all the schools asked for the proof? in my D’s case only 3 requested it what about the others ones???</p>
<p>how did you fix it with the SS? just go to their office and tell them i am now a citizen? and what kind of proof of citizenship did you send to the schools?</p>
<p>In other words, according to solo2013, call up FAFSA, lie to them about your SSN and everything will be alright. So you’re committing fraud with your FinAid. Great morals!</p>
<p>When it comes to SSN and citizenship, it isn’t something that you can cal FAFSA and lie about. They won’t and can’t clear the citizenship flag just because you claim you are now a citizen. Instead, contacting the FAFSA support line and letting them know that the problem has been resolved with SSA will have the FAFSA Processing Center send the FAFSA back through processing to check with SSA to confirm the citizenship has now been cleared. Updating with SSA does not result in an automatic reprocessing of the FAFSA…that is why solo recommended contacting them after the problem had been fixed.</p>
Young people today seem to have missed the phone app that allows them to make a voice call and talk directly to a human being at the college to ask for assistance.
It’s not even that. There are many factors that come into consideration before you dial to anyone; please don’t generalize all young people. I’m sure many out there are just nervous and a bit paranoid of this financial aid thing, I know I am - I am more than afraid that it’ll be delayed.
I had a similar problem (although not for college applications). It turned out that when PEOPLE compared records, my name would match the SSN info, but when computers started checking, nothing matched and results came back negative and I felt like a non-person. It turned out that when whoever initially entered the social security info, they listed my suffix (Jr.) as part of my last name, so my last name, instead of something like “SMITH” was listed as “SMITH JR.” Social security people insist that they fixed that, but it is not. I’ve learned to list my last name like “SMITH JR” and leave the suffix blank for documents requiring SS verification.