so FAFSA process my app a week ago and when I check back today, it says:
WHAT YOU MUST DO NOW (Use the checklist below to make sure that all of your issues are resolved.)
The Social Security Administration did not confirm that you are a U.S. citizen. Provide your financial aid office with documentation of your U.S. citizenship (such as
your U.S. Passport, Certificate of Naturalization or Birth Certificate). If the documents support your status as a U.S. citizen, the financial aid office at your school
will make a copy of your documentation and can continue to process your federal student aid. If you are an eligible noncitizen, you or your school must submit a
correction to Item 14 to indicate that you are an eligible noncitizen and also provide your Alien Registration Number in Item 15. You and your school will receive a
new SAR/ISIR within three processing days with results from the Department of Homeland Security about your eligible noncitizen status.
My parents became citizen through naturalization and I am naturally granted citizen because I was a minor. So what should I do to fix the problem, they want me to send my proof of my citizenship to all colleges that I am applying to? What if the college denied my college app, do I still them anyways? Is my FASFA being held back because I am flag as a noncitizen? Also is this FAFSA’s helpline: https://studentaid.ed.gov/contact#call
Get the US passport and then show it to Social Security Administration, so that they can fix your status in their database. Meanwhile, show the passport to the schools that you’re interested to attend, so that they can process your federal aid.
Yes, you will receive no federal financial aid if you do not prove you are a citizen or a legal resident. You need to provide the information required to those schools you are interested in receiving financial aid from. Schools you are not admitted to or that you have eliminated you can just ignore.
AND you need to get your status changed with the SSA. You have a SSN that does not list you as a citizen. If your parents did not go to SSA to have their status changed after they became citizens, then they aren’t working under the correct status either. They need to go to SSA, with their naturalization papers and have their status changed. This does not happen automatically, they have to go to the office. They should be able to change the status of all their children if you all became citizens under their status, unless additional steps were required to make you a citizen.
Bad news is that often the schools will not/should not take copies of these documents - they have to see the originals and they can make a copy as it states above:
" the financial aid office at your school
will make a copy of your documentation and can continue to process your federal student aid."
You may have to make arrangements with each school for this.
Ask your parents if they have your Certificate of Naturalization. Maybe you should take it to Social Security Administration office to have this resolved. Call them first. If it cannot be resolved quickly then contact all colleges to find out how and when you should send them your proof of citizenship.
It is easier to get a passport, and usually faster. The passport people seem to understand all the ways to become a citizen pretty easily. The SSA cannot change status on the SSN without either a certificate of naturalization/citizenship or passport. You can show them all the laws and reasons you want, but they want the piece of paper and can’t change the status without it.
You are right, the OP probably does not have his own Certificate of Naturalization but maybe he has the Certificate of Citizenship. If OP’s parents never got it for him then it may be easier to get a passport by providing Passport service with all of the following:
Your foreign birth certificate (translated to English),
Evidence of citizenship of your U.S. citizen parent,
Your parents’ marriage certificate, and
A statement of your U.S. citizen parent detailing all periods and places of residence or physical presence in the United States and abroad before your birth